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Sermon Thirty-Two
he Scripture of the Mace,
First:
‘The pleasure of annihilation is the pleasure of disappearing into the unreal.
²All those that would challenge the sleeping world will seek membership in this movement. I denounce the alienation of the Cloven Duality with a hammer.’
³Second:
‘Take from me the lessons as a punishment for being mortal. To be made of dirt is to be treated as such by your jailers. ⁴This is the key and the lock of the Daedra. Why do you think they escaped the compromise?’
⁵Third:
‘Velothi, your skin has become the pregnant darkness. My brooding has brought this on. ⁶Remember that Boethiah asked you to become the color of bruise. How else to show yourselves people of the exodus into the vital: pain?’
⁷Fourth:
‘The sage who is not an anvil: a conventional sentence and nothing more. By which I mean dead, the fourth walking way.’
⁸Fifth:
‘A proper comprehension of the virtues: stage-managed and to be murdered.’
⁹Sixth:
‘In the end, rejoice as a hostage released from drumming torment but that savors his wound. ¹⁰The drum breaks and you find it to be a nest of hornets, which is to say: your sleep is over.’
¹¹Seventh:
‘The suspicious is spectacle and the lie is only a theoretical inspiration.’
¹²Eighth:
‘But then why, you ask, do the Daedra wish to meddle with the Aurbis? It is because they are the radical critique, essential as all martyrs. ¹³That some are more evil than others is not an illusion. Or rather, it is a necessary illusion.’
¹⁴The ending of the words is ASV.