If They Are True

[ArborGold 85]

IF THEY ARE TRUE

 

Novatian and his followers nailing a letter to the entrance of the Cathedral of the Holy Martyrs,  Late 1693

 

Novatian’s sandals felt heavy as he returned to a city he had once forsaken. Some time ago, when his hair was of a different shade and his face was less marked then today, he was a curator of the cathedral he now approached. The few who had accompanied him were not all men of the word, for some were the protection he most certainly would need after his upcoming acts of defiance. Several other men scampered across the known roads of the Empire and beyond, lacing the trails, posts, and cities with identical works. With great haste he withdrew a hammer and a single nail, now walking with the slow pace expected of a man his age. With every step he worried he would be struck down, but he was not. By the time he was there, at the entrance of the place he once lived, he paused, unaware of anyone’s reactions to his motions. All of it faded away as his time in solitude, a self-imposed exile, ended and he held up a piece of parchment to the door. With several thuds, each more laborious than the last in his old age, he completed what had been months in the making. Now as the times collided and the Church he once knew disintegrated for a second time Novatian made his stand, one that may very well cost him his life. But Novatian was old, and without the worries of the youthful man he once was. His time, following his tenure in the upper echelons of Church, was one of simple living and studious study of the world. From one schism to another Novatian had remained a silent servant and in times of unity he would be diligent in spreading the word and advocating for the quietest of voices in Marna and beyond. Now he would share his thoughts with the world and change how others viewed the Church, GOD’s Church, a Church meant for the people, not the few fat priests who had destroyed and hidden away what GOD meant to make free. Novatian would break their artificial chains by which they bind His Divine Word, with his life if necessary.

 

Novatian turned, and walked off. All that was left was his work, as it swayed gently in the evening breeze. Any who approached would see a sprawling script until they finally could read,

 

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VERY DEAR BRETHREN – Peace to you and with us, that is, with the Cannonist Faith, the mother of all, both us and you, love and concord from GOD, the Almighty, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. 

 

“My Word lasts into the eve of the world, and the fruit of virtue cannot rot.”
Horen 1:1

 

Amen.

 

It has always appeared to us that you never needed my aid, which assuredly would have been most readily given, but hitherto no occasion presented itself to us. Now, however, of a truth, not only has an opportunity occurred, but necessity is laid upon me to demonstrate in what way I feel affected towards you, if I would maintain my fidelity towards Almighty GOD, and faith towards my neighbor. For, after it was brought to my ears that certain crafty men, enemies of peace and the Church, had in like manner, as they had previously done, cast among you, and in HIS Church, the wicked seeds of discord, had turned the faithful people of GOD aside from the way of their fathers and ancestors, and from the perpetual sentiments of the Church, and filled all places with strife and sedition. Such is always the appropriate course of those who seek new power and new honors for themselves, by assailing the authority of the Church, I declare before Almighty GOD, who is always present beholding my inmost thoughts, that I was exceedingly grieved and affected with a kind of double pity, when, on the one hand, I thought it known the groans of the Church our mother, weeping and lamenting at being deprived and, on the other, dearest brethren, I was concerned at your losses and dangers. I trust, however, that after explaining the nature of my undertaking, I shall not only be exempted from all blame, but there will not be an individual who will not admit that the cause which I have undertaken I could not on any account have abandoned without basely deserting my duty as a member of the flock of GOD.

 

Since there are three things on which the safety of the Church is founded: doctrine, discipline, and the sacraments, and to these a fourth is added, those being ceremonies, by which to exercise the people in offices of piety, in order that we may be most sparing of the honor of your Church, by which of these things would you have us to judge her? The truth of doctrine, on which the Church ought to be founded, has not only in a great measure perished in your Church, but is violently driven away by fire and sword. Will you obtrude upon me, for the Church, a body which furiously persecutes everything sanctioned by our religion, both as delivered by the oracles of GOD, and embodied in the writings of holy Fathers, and approved by ancient Councils? Where, pray, exist among you any vestiges of that true and holy discipline, which the ancient bishops exercised in the Church? Under which can the people know the truth when you have gone through lengths, for centuries, to hide this from them? Have you not scorned all the ancient institutions in your thoughtless actions, one which demonstrates the truth of human debauchery? Have you not trampled all the Canon under foot? Then, your nefarious profanation of the sacraments I cannot think of without the utmost horror.

 

I will not permit you, by inscribing the name of Church on such abominations, both to defame her against all holy law and justice, and prejudice the ignorant against us, as if we were determined to wage war with the Church. For though we admit that in ancient times some seeds of superstition were sown, which detracted somewhat from the purity of the word, still you know, that it is not so long ago since those monsters of impiety with which we war were born or, at least, grew to such a size. Indeed, in attacking, breaking down, and destroying your control, we are armed not only with the energy of the Divine Word, but with the aid of the holy Fathers and righteous GOD Himself. But what arrogance, we say, to boast that the Church is with you alone, and to deny it to all the world besides! The Church of GOD belongs to the PEOPLE OF GOD!

 

“And so I shall guide thee in the theatre of virtue, and the most
virtuous shall not live without Me and My Word.”
Horen 1:2

 

Let it be fully known, without any doubt from the flock of the One True GOD, that the Canon, the scrolls which bind us together, have a right to be freely distributed and read among all of the Faith. This being so that the masses can understand the foundational doctrine one Church, a false one of a lower breed than any before, claims to hold dominion over, when in fact they hold little weight when the light of the Divine Word of GOD is thrust upon them. GOD surely means that His Church cannot fail, and so we must multiply those who can see His word. All who believe that this is truth, and that the Divine Word of the Holy Canon should be spread within our flock should proudly undertake efforts to forfeit the corruptors of their foundational power in these misinterpretations. Let Our Church refuse to leave our wits at the gates when a villain undertakes the mantle of our leadership and will corrupt our most sacred of texts for a wicked use. Those who speak otherwise, I admit, dearest brethren, are those of simple minds, and of men who are by nature of duller intellect.

 

Wherefore we admit that Our Church has a necessity to teach through a dissemination of the Holy Canon we admit that His Church is truly a Church not for the few elites, but truly of us all. We shall impress the truth of the scrolls upon the minds of not the limited of us who speak in an ancient tongue, but those who speak the common tongue. GOD wills His words to be shouted, not in the submission of walls to defend from the many, but in a crowd of the faithful.

 

THE LORD GRANT TO US, OUR REJOICEFUL BRETHREN, HIS WORDS IN OUR TONGUE SO HE MAY COMMEND HIS TEACHINGS, THE TEACHINGS OF THE FATHERS, TO OUR HEAD. MIGHT WE JOIN TOGETHER WITH ONE HEART, ONE SOUL, ONE VOICE TO PROCLAIM THE CHURCH, OUR CHURCH, AND ALL WHO SPEAK OTHERWISE AS DEFILERS OF HIS MOST HOLY MOTHER CHURCH. IF THEY ARE TRUE, THEY WILL DO SO. IF THEY ARE NOT, THEY WILL DENOUNCE THE CAUSE AS IT THREATENS THEIR UNJUST AND UNHOLY POWER OVER HIS CHURCH.

 

- Novatian Besel of Nasiqua

The 18^th of the Deep Cold, In The Year of Our Lord, 1693

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

TLDR:

 

• Free the Holy Canon by making it distributed in the common tongue
• Demand an end to the corrupt Church that exists for the Emperor and NOT the people
  • GOD’s Church is created for all of His people, not to service the elite
  • Stop politicizing the Church in an unnecessary and wholly uncanonist way
• Establishes a basis that the Church of “Elwood” is false and has violated GOD's Church for political, not religious, reasoning
  • Denounces this for points mentioned above
• Denounces everything about the Church keeping the texts, the foundational concepts and words of the Church, basically a secret
  • Expresses a belief that GOD commands the texts to the people, not the Church

 

Also, just read the letter from the paragraph that begins with “Let it be fully known,” for easy understanding.

 

[_Elrith_ 4525]

 

Elrith tries on the new armor he has recently purchased in response to this script.

 

((Speaking of new armor, anyone wanna make a skin for me? I can pay if need be!

[Archbishop 1784]

“Weren’t you the one trying to sell incorrect versions of the Canon at the Dragur library, the man the OSL searched for?” asked Humpfrey.

[Sky 0]

“The Scriptures can be obtained by any man with the will to pursue them, don’t be lazy and ask for hand-outs.”

[osumanduas 1442]

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

 

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