...and what could God ask for? If It were to open Its mouth, the universe would come crashing down around It...
...therefore, It remains in perfect ignorance...
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...and we were glad to punish them, as though the laws they had broken were as real as the ones which kept our feet pressed firm against the earth. We smiled at the sight of their faces which bore in their musculature a subtle tension which we knew was the knowledge that, for them, salvation would not come. Taking up the first, always selecting the most stoic, we would take a length of thin wire, sharpened at both ends, and, after bending it at its midsection, heat both tips carefully in the flame. Then, one with a steady hand would begin carefully stitching it through the skin and into the muscle or internal cavity...
...the act was not really pleasurable in itself, either to perform or observe, but each of us resolved to really enjoy it, as it was the traditional ceremony and was preferable to inventing some other less troublesome ritual. Next, a large vessel filled with a thick, rich broth (made of discarded meat, offal and bone simmered until they were quite softened and mostly dissolved) is brought to the offender’s lips and he is made forcefully to drink if necessary. While quite pleasant in small quantities, after the third or fourth vessel is emptied down the throat...
...secured by the inserted wires to the raft...
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...a careful consideration of the law is always taken...
...of our government we will not know the full extent of its corruption until we have aged near to death, and at that point further and more vile corruptions will have been set in motion and better disguised such that our children, should one be so arrogant as to sire them into this world, will be unable to understand them as malfeasance, and will instead intuitively recognize them as the unquestionable basis of any moral and just society....
...and likewise we know that, as a consequence of Its perfection, God must always be cloaked in a false image of purity. The chief beholder of this fictive image is the mind of God Itself (who has also manufactured it, though unwittingly). This arrangement has come about because perfection (as one understands the theological term) can be neither pure, nor omniscient, as such attributes would be a contradiction in terms; perfect wholeness cannot conceive of Itself, thus God cannot be truely aware, though it is permitted that It may possess an incomplete awareness...
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Our system should not be confused with the Gnostic’s, for we maintain that the Demiurge (though we do not use the word ourselves, and the reader should consider it an analog to the word “God”) participates in
Its own deception in order to perceive lesser realms within Itself and that instances of this divine perception are characterized by the creative enjoyment of the Demiurge (or, “God”). The enjoyment of the Demiurge or what inspires it, cannot be known by men, though we can tangibly feel the presence of Its perception when it occurs. However, certain worshipping practices have been developed through a series of trials...
...even if these methods of worship as we have developed them are judged wrong by God, it has been determined that the merits of simply attracting Its perception outweighs the consequences of a negative judgement, if there are any at all.
...firmly establishes torture as the foremost sacrament...
Due to these metaphysical arrangements it becomes readily apparent why Its purposes are basically at odds with our own. Thus, the intent behind the ritual practices is given greater clarity...
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