Book Seventh

[LoLzboi 661]

Book Seventh

Concerning Eternity

 

Saint Julia expelling the followers of Saul from Horen’s tribe

 

Penned By High Pontiff Siegmund I

 

1st of Sun’s Smile, 1694

 

 

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In my final work upon these subjects, I shall leave this plain and concern myself solely with what comes after, that of the Kingdom of GOD in the Seven Skies.

 

 

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Upon the question of death

 

To many among us, the thought of death brings naught but grief and fear, for we fear what might be done to us in this mortal plain, and not concern ourselves with what lays beyond that which we perceive at this moment. From this, we gather many who would turn themselves into a parody of themselves should the promise of a swift and gentle end be given to us so that we might not suffer but another second in a life of suffering.

 

To these folk, I write directly. There is not to fear in death, but the thought that you might fear to greet GOD ever so much sooner than you would if you would live to the end of your natural life. And so, why fear? Why fret? Why tear yourself apart thinking of what might be and what might come? For the journey we all walk ends the same way should we be pious, and steadfast, and righteous in our final moments.

So I give to you, worrier, overwhelmed one, child of terror, these words and these words solely:

 

“The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”

 

And with these words you should know that death will carry you as gently as any mother would carry her babe, and more quickly than any cart might do, to the eternal paradise of the Seven Skies, wisdom given to us by Him. So fear not, worry not, be overwhelmed not, be terrified not, for GOD shall walk with you as he walks with us all.

 

Upon the question of eternity within ourselves

 

What lays in the after lays deeply in us, I believe. For the virtues spoken to us by GOD, through the Prophets, are born into us naturally as I briefly mused in book six. For each of us knows of the virtues, indulges in their usage, and cooperates with the needs of them, but for a select few within their direct life. As I spoke, the mother cares solely for her own kin and not that of another, and so gives charity only to her son and not that of others sons.

 

So then, I would think that should the after be marked without suffering as known in this plain, without iniquity as seen eagerly present here, as known as easily as the name of another, then perhaps our nature to espouse these virtues would come unhindered, each man and woman who takes the faith in their hands, and hearts, and minds eagerly and willingly giving to each other and themselves a life in the eternal of virtue.

 

Upon the question of eternity within others

 

And from each of these individuals who partake in the espousing of these virtues, grows a great and mighty community of all those who have believed in GOD utmostly through the hardships and suffering of their mortal stay. One that is absolutely pure in piety, and free of the burdens of mortality, one that sees and is seen as the pinnacle of ourselves in an organized and widespread people.

 

A glorious testament to what we are in our purest form, that of the children of the four brothers unmolested by the curses and lies of Iblees, to live as purely as the first man and woman lived under the careful nurturing and sustenance of GOD and within His mightiest creation, that of His home.

 

Upon the question of eternity

 

From this we then might see a grand and mighty thing like that of our Empires that graced the mortal plain, a unifying and righteous being made up of all of ourselves. The culmination and clear sighted presence of an Empire that all of us strive to create in the mortal plain, a pure and beautiful work, a satisfying and satisfied state, a humble and sturdy Society, a gracious and malevolent body from which stems all goodness, with ourselves looking down upon the mortal plain in the joy of an elderly woman looking upon her grandchildren as they stumble and trip to find their way in their world.

 

All of this, and more, shall be, in my mind, that which makes up the eternity. Ourselves creating the glorious and beautiful afterlife to which we all strive, and all of us, without exception, bathed in the Light of GOD from His throne to us who surround him as many children do to any great story teller, but his words are that of all things and not but a fictition, his tales that of paradise and not of false lands, his joy and his love emanating stronger to us, and reverberating inside us more so than any great love ballad that we have heard has done.

 

Upon my own eternity

 

With these thoughts as full and complete as I might make them at this time, with the grace given to myself for perhaps some thoughts may be left incomplete, or some rambling parable left wanting, I bid thee dear reader farewell, for I shall find if my musings upon the after truly are those of truth, or if my mind drifted to that of what I hope it will be, as we all will find when it should come.

 

 

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[CrownedLime747 162]

Aleksei wonders if the Lord Himself is guiding Siegmund in writing these and that is why they are being written in such a short amount of time.

[_Elrith_ 4525]

Elrith believes that a GOD really does exist and he should now become a Canonist and loyal follower of High Pontiff Siegmund. “I’ll add all of these to my collection.”

 

Ellenore can’t read and believes the Allfather is the one true God amongst men.

[Jentos 9422]

An ancient man, heeding from Laria smiles, for truly Blessed are the works of the holy man who penned these tomes, in such a short amount of time? He reflected upon previous miracles he had witness; the return of his flesh by GOD, the everflowing BlackTM, and lastly, the time a certain man was flung down a stream, only to be guided upstream towards his home rather than downstream where the current flowed. 

[osumanduas 1442]

Moved to The Great Library. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.

 

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