”For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a Commonwealth or State (in latine Civitas) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which, the Soveraignty is an Artifical Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body ..” – Ser Tomas Hughes
Our empire finds herself in a torrent of perpetual conflict, beset on all sides by the savagery of man’s natural inclinations. From inside and out, the savagery of the moral world presses upon the good men and women of the Kingdom to the extent that it seems to place an exessential crisis to that which is Good, Holy, and Rightful in our lives. And through it all we ask ourselves, why? Why do our hands always seemed tied, and our sword bucked whence barbarians barge upon our doors and murderers are allowed to go afoot? Why for six years a field which has received a decree to be dredged into a canal can be left bare? Why the few shackle themselves in a prison of decorum and custom to prevent love and association with the many.
“And by His Word, the Planes were rendered, and His throne was in the Seventh Sky. And that which was farthest from the Lord became the Void, and that which was nearest became the Skies, and betwixt them was the World. And GOD saw that it was good.” – Provenance, Stanza III
God is good and all good is within God. For it is he that have made everything, and everything of that which he has made is of his nature, and all ill which cometh from his creation has been the seed of Iblees, and the nature of doubt and sin. God formed his court upon the seventh sky, not as a court of nobles and senate, bickering of laws and partisan infighting, but of one. One throne for one god which to sit upon. This throne, as long as the righteous sit upon it, sits upon the farthest distance from the Void, from anarchy, from death. God made his kingdom with power and authority from the most holy of places, far above the sinful world, yet we sit our power among men, among creatures, whose, to quote Ser Tomas Hughes, “life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Is it no wonder then that we find ourselves lost in mires of partisan infighting, when once we had been lead to glory? When the rights of kings can be so cruelly sabotaged by hateful propaganda and forgeries? When children can be murdered on the roads and yet the rightful reprisal so sayeth the lord is not given by the sword? We have lost our way.
”For when GOD bore witness to the bounty of His Immortals, He was pleased. But when He saw the bounty of Iblees, which was sin, He was very wroth with the Daemon. And He spoke to Iblees. “Why hast thou done that which I have forbidden?” And Iblees replied “For you name us as servants, and I shall devise of no virtue until I am your equal. And now my touch is the touch of the Void, and it is with all things in your creation.” And GOD was furious, and Iblees would not repent. And he fled into the Void, for he hated the glory of GOD, and by his own will was shackled from the Lord.” – Provenance, Stanza VI
That which corrupted the kingdom of God now corrupts the kingdom of man. For it is clear to me that the power-hungry masses of those who were ordained servants of the King now seeks to be his equal, from the Duma to our petty lords who do try and claim themselves heathenish and illegitimate kings. For it is that God placed the king upon his throne, and did through this ordination vest in him the power of God, which before all men are equal in their misery, and all those raised above another are not inequal by right, but by appointment as tools to serve said divine will.
I am not a politician, I am not a noble, but I am a Cannonist, and a Cannonist before all else. And I have been raised to read the word of God when he tells us these things through most holy scripture, and it worries me. It worries me to see this world of Sin breach upon our kind. Nobles have not found their proper place as servants to the kings, and believe themselves higher than their authority deserves. The rule of law is upended, and the intracacies of our system mires us from action, the masses consume themselves and cannibalize our kingdom in the process.
I am not a feudalist nor am I a centralist, but I write these things to beg for reform, to abolish these systems from law once and for all. Within the divine right of a monarch is his mandate to serve all people, who are within he, and a mandate to do whatever necessary to save us from the brutal anarchy of our nature, which would put all man against man, while institutions such as the Duma and our present nobility has not but the mandate to serve themselves and perpetuate their own status. I argue this not to breach my place in society, but to beg on my knees for a return to godliness, to a Holy and most divine kingdom. An Absolute kingdom.
“Thus, the Sons were orphaned, but even in their imperfection did keep faith in the Lord. So GOD was pleased, and He gave them language and greater knowledge, and created for each Son a tribe of seven thousand alike to them, and placed them above their people as kings, and they testified to His glory.” -Provenance, XVI
Signed,
-Maela Thorfinn