Chapter 135: A Slight Introduction

 Preface

A Warning

This book is a result of years of reflection and discernment, designed to synthesize what is happening, and what will unfold in the future. It is as if the present situation forces us to reconsider our position, if ever we wanted to prevent our own downfall, or watch helplessly over what will unfold, as the battle begins elsewhere.

We have become powerful enough to secure our very future, to give us a better vision and a hope, to guide us in political stability, lessen upheavals and propel us into the propensity of a better, just, and humane society. Our several Sees are to be respected for their craftmanship and mastery, not only because of the influence we yield from this Empire. But then, we have become powerful enough, too, to witness ourselves as our own nemesis. Internally, outside looking in, a brewing discontent has become a constant threat.

This is a warning, dear fellow Cardinals. That what we have sown in our own flesh has become a tumor that will be too delicate to be surgically removed. It has become a sickness for a desire to do more, as we have forgotten that our society needed a philosophy that will not endanger our own thoughts into the pitfalls of greed and pride.

I have written this book to give us all the proper perspective on handling the power within us that has become our own demons, lurking inside, especially to the most vulnerable of us. As we have seen fit, these Book of Origins and the Book of Chants are a testament to my own fears, which I am now sharing with you. It is my desire to implore the Bishop of Old to call a Consistory to discuss the canons of these writings, for it is imperative into our future and our own survival.

Let me then consider the question of our mere existence as a subject of discourse, whether to ascertain what must be good, and what must be bad. The status quo contains everything that is good and bad, and disruption may not occur to challenge this state unless some elements have the courage to synthesize what is bad, in order to desire for more good.

This, then, is the threat, my dearest Cardinals. That by accumulating tremendous power and influence, our Empire has bred in itself a beast that is just waiting to be unchained, consuming all of us. While we see everything that is good, the bad has been accumulating so silently that it will erupt into a 

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