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The Consummation of Love

 

Braxus Ni’leya

14th of The Deep Cold

Year 50, S.A.

 

Maehr’sae Hiylun’ehya

 

I consign these words to paper on the eve of my Six-Hundred and Fiftieth Birthday, in hopes that I may impart unto you, some of the Wisdom I have acquired over my long and arduous life.

 

It is known to those ‘thill who dwell within Haelun’or, that in both plain sight and behind closed doors, impurity of the body and mind festers. The caustic and corrosive nature of such foul deeds leaves stains, the likes of which can tarnish even the most pristine Silver Soul. Our physical purity is imperative to us, as a race - This is known and has been known since our transcendence, as is our mental purity. Thus, I bring into existence, this work - let it serve as an homage to Beauty and Love - those primordial beasts, so powerful that they may lead the Pure to tarnish and the Tarnished to Purity.

 

Consider, dear lliran, a Mountain, and let us call her Love. You stand before it, unable to see its peak, for it is shrouded by cloud. At the base of this Mountain, is where one finds physical beauty, bodily love - erotic love. This love, is of a strictly lustful kind - one is attracted to another’s body and takes part in activities of the flesh - This kind of love is ruled by appetite, it is the most base form of love but it is vital for procreation - the continuation of our people, so it is not necessarily evil - for being controlled by one’s passions certainly does lead to evil. However, soon you will realize, with the correct guidance, that what attracts you to the body of one person, is not exclusive to that one person - in fact, the objects of your desires are quite commonly found among others. So, dear lliran, suppose you are attracted to one because of the color of their hair - you will find many others with the same, and so your intensity for this kind of physical beauty dwindles - because you begin to recognize the beauty in all bodies - but is this all that love has to offer you? Of course not. You must aim your sights higher. This love must be tamed - it must have a directedness about it - it must be coupled with something else - and so you begin your ascent of Love. This takes us to the second stage of our climb.

 

You find yourself having reached a greater height and with this, greater understanding. You are able to see further up this great Mountain and its intricacies are becoming clearer. You move past your lustfulness and begin to love the person for themselves - You begin to love their soul. The constitutive elements of their mind, their thought processes, their mannerisms, their sense of humour, et cetera. You have reeled in your passions and they are now under control. This, dear lliran, is love of the Soul. You are infatuated by the person for who they are and not what they are. Now of course, you will not be attracted to just any soul - you are naturally attracted to the virtuous soul - the Silver Soul for it radiates beauty - purity. However, as with our previous case - you will find that many souls are virtuous and good. Many are Silver so your intensity dwindles once more until you happen upon a love for our institutions and culture - the very vehicles by which people acquire their personalities. Our values are inculcated by the society in which we live, by our families, our traditions, our laws and cultures, et cetera - but is this the end of love? Fret not - for we have yet to reach the peak - the pinnacle - The Consummation of Love

 

We ascend, surpassing the clouds and we traverse the rocky outcrops which have made our journey treacherous - we may now view the horizon with clarity. We have gained so much from our ascent and now we can truly come to appreciate beauty - for the object of our love is beauty itself. Previously, we loved things that were beautiful, that partook in beauty, but now, we contemplate universal beauty - the ‘Form’ of beauty, if you will. When you scale this mountain and learn to appreciate the abstract idea of beauty, this will stir in you a passion to seek knowledge in everything. To seek out the Form of everything. And this, lliran, is our calling. 

 

Throw off the shackles of your lust, reign in your appetites - let your reason, in line with your spiritedness take charge. Seek love in all of its forms, begin your journey of love so that you may benefit us all with offspring, a love of Haelun’or and a most glorious pursuit of wisdom.

 

Love deeply, Love purely, Love knowledge.


 

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Valyris flipped through the latest set of papers released by her llir as she sat by her fireplace. It seemed as though she was deep in contemplation. 

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Luthriel managed to get missives from Haelun'or to keep her informed of the happenings.  She read the missive slowly, wondering if she was really deserving to have her body and soul hated by Braxus and to have that hatred consummated by his attempted execution of her.  A tear trickled down her face from her eye, and she attempted to raise her hand to wipe it away with a sleeve, but her wrist just ended up hitting her chin, then her nose, and then her forehead.  Finally, through pure luck, she managed to wipe the tear away.  A friend walked into the room and noticed that the crippled woman was reading ideological missives from Haelun'or again.  "You can't be reading this stuff anymore.  It's time for you to enjoy life." He said as he took the missive away, "Paint something simple, come up with a story or a song, play with your dog, care for your plants, do anything other than read these - - - - missives."

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