SEVENTEEN PASSAGES

[littyfam 790]

 

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S E V E N T E E N   P A S S A G E S

OF SCRIPTURE FOR THE MAINTENANCE

OF MORTAL VIRTUE AS STANDS ABANDONED

 

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WHERE THE SO-NAMED CHURCH OF THE TRUE FAITH ABANDONS TRADITION and LAW and PRECEDENT, let my argument stand solely on the grounds of THE SACRED WORD OF THE LORD GOD AS DELIVERED UNTO HIS FOUR PROPHETS IN VIRTUE, SPIRIT, GOSPEL, and AUSPICE.

 

PAY HEED TO THESE DIVINELY DELIVERED TEXTS,

 

And so I shall guide you in a theater of virtue, and the virtuous shall not live except by My Word.

(Virtue, 1:7)

 

I bid My faithful this: You shall not blaspheme My Word, nor any thing that is holy.

(Virtue, 1:8)

 

And you shall discover strength of heart as you work the forge and the plow. So I am the Most High, and in pursuit of My Virtue, I bid My faithful this: You shall not be idle, nor forget your duties in favor of sloth.

(Virtue, 4:7-8)

 

You shall not raise a hand in wrath, nor in envy, nor in any kind of sin.

(Virtue, 5:9)

 

And as I have ordered the estates of the earth, so have I ordered your path as well, and established the powers of My world.

(Virtue, 6:5)

 

Whatever the Lord GOD spoke, the Lord GOD spoke indeed. His word is not abrogated, never annulled.

(Spirit, 2:9-10)

 

There can be no laxity in faith for any reason, not war nor peace, not wealth nor poverty.

(Spirit, 2:13)

 

For he who rejects holiness does reject the Lord, and there is no GOD but GOD, who is the GOD of Horen and of all things.

(Spirit, 3:13)

 

He cannot be divided nor made again, and His mysteries are the holy mysteries.

(Spirit, 7:17)

 

So he descended the emanations of glory, and drew farther from GOD, until he reached the Void. And lo, he was cursed by its touch. And GOD was wroth.

(Gospel, 1:17-19)

 

He was wrathful, for he too resisted the call of Iblees, but did not receive the Lord’s Word.

(Gospel, 3:5)

 

The priesthood of Owyn, of Evaristus and Clement, carried out His command faithfully and preserved the Word of GOD, the Spirit and the Virtue.

(Gospel, 5:24)

 

For seven days and seven nights, the priests of the Lord quarreled and prayed, but could not agree. Finally, the Lord’s servant James came before them, and spoke “O elders, the Lord has sent us a prophet after one thousand years of Silence. If we cannot serve the prophet of the Lord, we serve Iblees.” And the priests were humbled, and Godfrey saw that James was good and pious.

(Gospel, 6:54-57)

 

But it came that Reynard, Godfrey’s seneschal, envied the blessings of the Lord. Long had he held the crown of Renatus in waiting for the line of Horen, and now he hated that he had not taken it. So Reynard went to Godfrey’s servant, Zacarias, and spoke “See, Godfrey has stolen your kingdom. You are the blood of our last king, who took the throne in Daniel’s departing, and who is Godfrey to steal it? Who can know his lineage and his claim?”

(Gospel, 7:2-6)

 

And the second condemns diligence, and sloth is exalted. And the last condemns faith, and doubt is exalted. So the world is a pit of suffering.

(Auspice, 1:24-26)

 

Their enemy is Iblees, who cowers in the Void. And in his army are Iblees’s slaves, the Saulicians and the apostates, consorters with Iblees, witches, and all those  who serve them.

(Auspice, 2:42-43)

 

So each is given a law unto their kind, and the world is perfected. This is the promise of GOD to the World, that it shall belong to the virtuous, who love Him.

(Auspice, 3:16-17)

 

I TELL YOU THUS: the Word has been refuted; it has been blasphemied; they have claimed its annulment. Sloth and wrath have been made churchly consort; the Throne is desecrated; the clerical estate has been sent unto disorder. The Church does not preserve the Word. Holiness has been refuted, and the holy mysteries divided. The Church is made maiden of the Deceiver, and cursed by his touch, for envy has taken the hearts of once-holy men. The Church is made to quarrel, and diligence condemned. The army of the Deceiver is made mortal. THE CHURCH DOES NOT LOVE HIM.

 

With the Lord as my guide,

Father Theodorus Manfred

 

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[Rig 17580]

"i hate raevir," pronounced sir wilhelm derfey, before he plans to put up his own derfeyist missives to counter them both

 

"the kaedreni are better than the raev, death to boris, i hate raevir" 

 

he devolved into mad rambling as he wandered the streets of alba carrying a iron rake, disembodied whispers trailing after his quiet mumbling