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IN DEFENCE OF THE GLOBAL ASSEMBLY OF NATIONS AND A CRITIQUE OF THE PONTIFICAL INSTITUTION

“THE CHURCH BOWS TO NO MORTAL MAN”

   --- High Pontiff Emeritus Clement III

The axe falls for Lotte Baptiste as the world rages on in a constant churn of maligne war and destruction, of alienation and of betrayal. Today I have witnessed the worst of humanity, but also the best of it. The Global Assembly is the world’s, arguably, greatest institution of its time - albeit continuously belittled, antagonised, and misunderstood. Yet, despite the monochronistic expulsions of the Global Assemblies harshest critics, with their lips frothing with sheer delight at the deprivation of humanity, the institution is positioning itself to stand the test of time.

I write this declaration from a perspective uncommon to this bloodlusting world. I have seen, in my long life, the death of the fifth empire, the wars of Courlandic conquest, the rise of the sixth empire, the fracturing of the sixth empire, the ruthless and reckless butchery of a young boy aged no more than twelve simply because he was ordained by a priest and wore a crown. I have overseen resignation, nomination, competition and coronation. So what point do I attempt to fashion? Simply that no one power is forever. And as the world churns that same hostility all over again, I come to the realisation that the mediation of powers, the harmonious cacophony of acclamation, and the baseline humanity which is instilled within every one of from our conception by a higher power is only possible with the Global Assembly of Nations. And it is a false assumption to conclude that the Global Assembly is a passive institution that will allow the dictators and tyrants of our world to step over it, for this perpetuates the illusion of inaction. The Global Assembly has the grit, and it has the will, to solve our current problems and bring forth that resounding and victorious chorus of peace and prosperity.

And the critics may ridicule it for being an accumulation of redundant and useless legal niceties, and they may condemn the institution for being little more than a ponderous prolepsis. But the truth is that it will take many decades for its careful institutions to establish the norms that we will one day say underpin our shared principles and common understanding of humanity.

One fundamental argument against the Global Assembly of Nations is that it promotes a “globalist government run by third-rate bureaucrats”. Yet, the irony still lingers that the Global Assembly itself is, by its very nature, not a globalist institution. It is instead the inevitable amalgamation of international relations, trade, treaties or alliances. Contrastingly, globalisation refers to the global integration of nationstates economies into one singular economy and market. This misunderstanding is a common one to those uneducated in “third-rate bureaucracy”. Decidedly, therefore, the Global Assembly is NOT a globalist institution fixated upon destroying national sovereignty. It is, however, an institution based on the beliefs that compromise and dignity are the only way for us, as faithful men of GOD, to prosper.

It is not without a contrite heart and a profound conscience that any man may duly see the depravity of the conduct that the Holy Canonist Church exudes. For decades now, its radical approaches to secular affairs and its encroachments on the souls of men under their own burdensome weight of corrupt institutionalism have perverted the benevolence of GOD and the divine providence of the Seven Skies. I move now to the ills that infirm the Mystical Body of the Church and its constituent clergy whoso mistakenly identify themselves as the “Servants of GOD.” With the accession of His Holiness, Jude I, the Church has experienced a new era shaped by the political events that have occurred. While claiming no temporal power, His Holiness has used the awesome power of his office to chill the voices of his flock and subvert the august body of the Global Assembly that has for so long sought for a political solution across Atlas. The alignment of The Kingdom of Renatus-Marna, his chosen Fidei Defensor, with that of foreign entities deemed un-Canonist in nature, the subsequent silence of the Church and the complacency of His Holiness to condemn the aforementioned alliances seems to have forfeited the entirety of his moral authority as Keeper of the Exalted Testaments. Yet, the Canonist Church is so quick to punish and rebuke when other nations commit similar, if not smaller actions. Brethren, it is evident to us today that the Holy Father would take on secular favoritism and forego his spiritual obligations to ALL of humanity.

The perversion of the Canon by the institutional church, in particular to the decisions of His Holiness and the indiscriminate violence that he utilises in the Order of St Lucien to intrude on intergovernmental organizations that pursue compromise is nothing short of temporal vice and a folly to his responsibility as a shepherd of the flock. Evident in his pursuits is his utter disregard for the previous teachings of Pontifical exhortation in the life of the Church. In present times, His Holiness has tainted the integrity of his stature in promoting or silently abstaining from correcting social evils within the Church. In 1638, His Late Holiness Everard IV promulgated Pax Dei et Treuga Dei, a decree to mitigate the violent nature of the Kingdom of Renatus-Marna by mandating that by virtue of our Canonist baptism, we are caretakers of humanity, NOT kinslayers. What graver sin is to be had than that of kinslaying our fellow man without the mercy of the Creator in our conscience? Was not Krug condemned for such treachery, and do we not now stand in the judgment before GOD and His saints? For it is written:

For I have given to thee the theatre of virtue, and I have ordered the estates of the beasts of the earth and the men who walketh upon it. And thou shalt be without pretense or conceit, for before the mountain, the ant and the aurochs are equally small.

So I am the Most High, and in pursuit of My Virtue, I bid thee, My faithful, this: Thou shalt not judge the sufficiency of thy Virtue, be it great or small, for all magnitudes fall short of Me.

And I am the Lord God without peer, and My greatness is the only greatness, and My eternity is the only eternity, and all the aeons are open to My servants.

Horen 7:3-5

The matter is quite clear to us that the Church does not seek to fulfill its mission to peace and holiness, but rather its goal is to serve as a vessel for the avarice of Renatian interests and justifying its coarse actions via spiritual jurisdiction. As a blatant supporter for security alliances and targeting our beloved and now deceased Chairman Lotte Baptiste, they seek to topple the organization that was founded by a charter of nations to actively propagate dialogue on Atlas. Actions overtaken in the last two decades have reflected nothing but an aggressive attempt to coerce the sovereignty of other nations who do not align with them. It is unfortunate that the Church is nothing but an institution that allows the injustice of Iblees manifested in the malignant minds of these men to use their moral authority to distort the Canon and perpetuate the divisive rhetoric of those they sanction. By his magisterial authority, His Holiness Everard IV encouraged a common unity among the nations and clarified the true mission of the Church, a notion that has been distorted by the evils that the same supports:

“Whereas the mortal inclination of war and division remains an unshakable habit of our condition, we are also mandated by divine Will to ensure that the unity of man is the supreme propensity to our existence. As faithful men of the Canon, we are destined for the greater glorification of GOD by our namesake in baptism and confirmation through our vocational pursuits.”

-Pax et Unitatem, 1626

The moral relativity that this Church preaches and acts upon, deriving from the whims of avaricious pursuits and the will of the King of Renatus, this Pontificate has fallen short of its duties as a Servant of GOD and further cements his disqualification to the mandate of that holy office.

Moreover, by their own admission in the missive of “Apple Pie”, the Church itself - with the High Pontiff in tow - and the Order of Saint Lucien aggregated “evidence” and presented it to Princess Linette of Curon. Subsequently, they marched to the Global Assemblies headquarters, and upon taking sight of Lotte, and despite him denying vehemently that he had done no wrong, they cut him down regardless. There existed no trial. Critics will profess that no trial is needed for such crimes, yet there does exist the precedent of High Pontiff Emeritus Clement III’s reign, in which there was a church trial against a woman who had attempted to assassinate His Holiness. Ergo, since there was no trial, an already set criterion for heresy or malpractice, the accusation of Lotte as a necrotic is nullified and so too is the brutal execution of him. His executors, therefore, are also his murderers.

Yet another example of the politicisation of the pontifical institution is the corruption and lack of faith from its leadership. Archbishop Yurii, a member of the Synod, once stood silently whilst his men denounced the head of his religion - and then went on to disregard his faith and cease communication with the High Pontiff himself. This gross politicisation of what is meant to be a fundamentally religious organisation is an objective insult against the Canonist Church. The Archbishop had to, furthermore, profess his own faith in a writ of loyalty to the church. It is needless to say that one so high up in the institution should not have to be explaining that they are still faithful to the Canonist faith.

The next contradiction seen within the church institution is the constant bombardment of the High Pontiff Emeritus Clement III. His Holiness had once signed a deal with the descendants of Mali, which led to popular uproar and a divisive attitude to the then pontifical institution. Yet, we can easily highly the vastly ironic contradiction in our present predicament. They generally now accept alliance with the Dominion, but still bark in the face of the former High Pontiff for the actions that they themselves hold to be positive in nature. Evident in these contradictions is the diplomatic endeavor that the Church under Jude I is willing to compromise his own beliefs and that of the men he leads for the sake of temporal ambition. Only now does Renatus and the Church find it convenient to align with the Dominion if it facilitated them to unlawfully subjugate others. Rather than sanctions and means by the Global Assembly, the Church enables the Kingdom of Renatus-Marna to seek a path diametrically opposed to the virtues of Exalted Horen. How can we find credibility and morality in a church riddled with institutional hypocrisy, inconsistency, and an inflated relativity? We find solace in the words of Everard, who said of temperance and patience:

“The virtue prescribed by patience is an invitation of introspection on our part concerning the life that we experience has a time and order understood and controlled at the whim of the Godhead. Therefore, we are to remain ever faithful to the time and place GOD has destined us to be stationed, to deny oneself and our obligations to our own toils in favor of the common good and of the law revealed to us by the Testaments of the Exalted. We are given pain, sickness, health, cure, life, and death all because of the One who wills it. They were instituted to remind us of our humanity and of the salvation we aspire to partake in when the time and order of GOD has been met.”

The Scroll of Virtue, by my own correspondence with the High Pontiff Emeritus Clement III, teaches us of faith, of charity, of temperance and of humility; yet the actions of the depraved and bloodthirsty assassins of Chairman Baptiste, whoever they may be, show us the worst of our world and the contorted nature of a shameless mind. Baptiste was many things, but a villain and a necrotic was not one of those things. I had the pleasure to call Lotte my ally, my brother-in-arms for more than two decades. I ask his murderers:

Do you have no shame?

There is no surer sign of decay in our world than to see the rites of fidelity, harmony, and religion held in contempt. Furthermore, there is no plague within the ill of man more grave than that of the perversion of truth and the corruption of holiness to justify malice.

MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON KINSLAYERS, FOR THERE IS NONE TO BE HAD FOR THEM IN THIS LIFE

IN NOMINE DEI,

Alexandre Ashford d’Aryn

COSIGNATURUS,

Clement III, High Pontiff Emeritus

Samuel Lythian, Chief Secretary of the Global Assembly

Anselm Gerhard, Curate of Markev

Fide et Ordo

To Lords and Gentlemen of the Realm,

            The brutal assassination of our Emperor has left us in the state of disorder and chaos. It is by the will of the Closed Council and its respective nobles to maintain order, security and communication throughout these turbulent times. In order to do this, the Closed Council and its respective nobles have elected the selection of three regents, to serve respectfully and in the chaotic times we find ourselves in. The regents are as followed,

• His Excellency the Archchancellor, Lord Frederick Marna,

• His Holiness the High Pontiff Everard IV,

• and Grandmaster Robert of the Order of Saint Lucien, Commander of the Faith Militant.

             These individuals will serve responsibly and with right mind to guide the nation. Furthermore, the Closed Council, its respective nobles and the Imperial Regents find such to state,

• The denouncement of Lord Canonius for his hand in the murder of Emperor John VI and his fellow courtiers,

• The denouncement of Lord Canonius for his hand in the murder of Lord Gottfried Helvets,

• The denouncement of Lord Canonius for his breach of promise to do no harm to Lord Gottfried Helvets’ kin and kith,

• The denouncement of Lord Canonius for his use of bandits and mercenaries who have fought our Fair Nation repeatedly,

• The denouncement of Lord Canonius for shedding the blood of clergymen and holy soldiers,

• The denouncement of Lord Canonius for attempting to overthrow the legal government for his own gain,

• The denouncement of Lord Canonius for forcing nobles at sword point to swear fealty and giving false promises to ambitious upstarts and cretins,

• And the denouncement of Lord Canonius for dividing mankind even further and only believing his misled will is the correct one.

            The Closed Council, its respective nobles and the Imperial Regents will not allow these transgressions and falsities to further corrupt our Fair Nation. Furthermore, any lord, soldier and freeman who remains loyal to the rightful government is to cut all ties to the false control of Lord Canonius.

May God grant us strength,

His Excellency the Archchancellor, Lord Frederick Marna, Imperial Regent.

Grandmaster Robert of the Order of Saint Lucien, Commander of the Faith Militant, Imperial Regent.

His Holiness the High Pontiff Everard IV, and so forth, Imperial Regent.

To Lords and Gentlemen of the Realm,

            Chaos has infested the nations of man. From the failed defense of Asul by rebels and the fall of Lackland, to the controversial entrance into the Urguani Civil War and the unsuccessful defense therein, to finally the coronation of the minor John VI and his butchering within his very court- our Realm has faced countless perils and struggles by the hands of the incompetent and insecure. And now, sellswords and bandits, former enemies of our Fair Nation, align themselves with a self-proclaimed king who attempts to topple our government and invoke a reign of fear and malice.

            Yet despite many clamouring that this lordling’s assassination of our Emperor has led to the end of our Fair Nation, this is not the case. We will not submit the machinations of these bandits, who merely fight and raid and care not for the populace of mankind. We will not bow to a kinslayer who spills his own cousin’s blood for the sake of his own ambitions. We will not bend to the commands of those which aim to direct our Fair Nation to another course of anarchy and mindless fighting, who believe the ends justify the means and wish to  install their own nostalgic vision upon us.

            To those reciting that Adelburg has fallen, this is entirely untrue. Adelburg remains in the control of our Holy Empire and that of the Regency Council, and will always remain to be. We will not be pushed aside by up-jumps and sinners, who carelessly slaughter civilians and only dream of chaotic fighting instead of peace, order and law. Order will be maintained and we will stand against this threat, as we have in the past, and we will prevail against it. We will persevere against all threats, no matter how dire, no matter how the odds turn against our Fair Nation, we will stand tall and combat these threats, from domestic, foreign and all those in between.

            It is our sovereign duty to not succumb to the terror and the fear-mongering, and to save ourselves from the corrupting ambition of mortal men. Too long have we been decided by the selfish and the greedy, those which have no desire for order and those which serve their own dark, twisted thoughts. As in times before, these same bandits have attempted to enforce their will through puppet monarchs and idiotically push all away for their own sinister cabal. We will not allow this to follow the cycle, and we will fight it tooth and nail, from the land and sea, from the north to south.

            We are not William the Weak, who abandoned his country from simple vocal threats. We are not Alexander the Careless, who surrendered his capital with only one battle. We are not Philip the Tyrant, who blew up his own capital in his cowardness. We are not John Lackland, who left his realm in chaos and disorder through his ineptitude. We are not these people, and we will prevail and we will not give in. Humanity has fallen numerous times to its own violence, which cannot happen again. And in the end,

We will save Humanity from itself.

May God grant us strength,

His Excellency the Archchancellor, Lord Frederick Marna, Imperial Regent.