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When the Sisters heard this, they both confronted Void and pleaded | |
that he not forget them, his First Born. And so Void decreed thus: | |
That this brother, having no form, was to reside with Aneris in | |
Non-Being and then to leave her and, so that he might play with order | |
and disorder, reside with Eris in Being. But Eris became filled with | |
sorrow when She heard this and then began to weep. | |
"Why are you despondent?" demanded Void. "Your new brother will | |
have his share with you." "But Father, Aneris and I have been | |
arguing, and she will take him from me when she discovers him, and | |
cause him to return to Non-Being." "I see," replied Void. "Then I | |
decree the following: | |
"When your brother leaves the residence of Being, he shall not | |
reside again in Non-Being, but shall return to Me, Void, from whence | |
he came. You girls may bicker as you wish, but My son is your Brother | |
and We are all of Myself." | |
And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is | |
that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder | |
them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from | |
existence and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a | |
tired child home from a very wild circus. | |
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"Everything is true -- Everything is permissible!" --------- | |
-- Hassan i Sabbah / \ | |