| Here is a blessing for the Children of the Light, the harbingers of the Great
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| Cleansing:
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| Your ability to ask the right questions shall be unequalled under this Sun,
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| for you are our Children. |
| Your answers, however, shall be fraught with
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| imperfection, infected by the purulent rot of your vanity
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| Here is a curse for the Children of the Light, the harbingers of the Great
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| Cleansing:
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| You shall defiantly insist on absolute infallibility. |
| Such hubris will cause
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| pain of a magnitude unseen before, ridiculing all barbarian conquests
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| throughout the ages hitherto
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| We shall make you so impervious to the world that should all the Angels descend
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| upon you and prove you wrong, you would simply shut your eyes and stop your
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| ears, for they would not deserve
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| To be either seen or heard. |
| Our teachings shall shield you from the world and
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| turn you into an island in dead waters with high cliffs and no coves
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| The System is born, the System provides answers. |
| You shall renounce to sincere
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| understanding
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| So as to gain absolute certainty. |
| You will stand unmoved by the pleas of reason,
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| knowing that within the heart lies the conscience of the Order
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| We shall make you pray not only for your daily bread but also for your daily
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| illusion, for nothing within the realms of the ordinary, that which once was,
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| can relieve you; |
| only a miracle would. |
| You beg to drink the sweet milk of
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| imposture, moaning like newborn lambs
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| You will stand unmoved by the pleas of reason, knowing that within the heart
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| lies the conscience of the Order
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| You beg to drink the sweet milk of imposture, moaning like newborn lambs
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| You will stand unmoved by the pleas of reason, knowing that within the heart
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| lies the conscience of the Order
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| We shall breed the brothers and sisters of Erysichthon, cursed with eternal
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| hunger; |