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The book of Virtues
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Chapiter I - « Oanylone »
1 The humans were from then on the children of God. As a consequence, they were now endowed with a soul, which would be judged at the end of times according to their practice of virtue. Moreover, it was required that they now dedicate themselves to work to ensure their subsistence. The other creatures of creation, excluding only that one which the Most High had not named, were made subordinate to them. The human ones could thus cultivate them and raise them to be their nourishment.
2 God did not intervene any more in the world, letting His children live and thrive. He had given to the creature that He had not named freedom to try them so that they must choose between the way of the virtue and that of the sin. Being omniscient, He knew already how would be their future, but He wanted them to prove reliable, without judging them in advance.
3 Oane, he who had correctly answered God, had now passed from the simple status of spirit of the community to leadership of it. He did not balk at the task. He led them throughout the world to a place favorable to their prosperity. During these years, they crossed deserts, mountains and plains throughout the whole world. Oane became increasingly weakened throughout this journey, but he never gave up.
4 Finally, the day came where they found a valley favorable for their establishment. It had a lake, which seemed plentiful with fish. Vast spaces were favorable towards growing crops and raising cattle. The surrounding forests would provide wood. There was even an orchard, where many fruit trees grew. The valley was just at the foot of a mountain, from which minerals, such as gold, iron or coal, could be extracted.
5 Oane was pleased that his search had finally come to an end. He was admiring the valley when he suddenly collapsed. All were crowded around him to come to his assistance. Some tried to hold him in an almost seated position, but it was clear to all present that he lived his last moments. But, in spite of the tragedy of the event, while all were frightened, Oane beamed a smile full of serenity.
6 He said: “Do not fear, because my death is only my passage to join God. I reached the place that God reserved for me in the world and achieved what He wanted from me. Death is not for me the loss of my life but the passage towards another, and a much better one. It will be the same for you if you can live in the virtue. Then, your tears are not of sadness but of joy, because the Most High gives to me the most beautiful of gifts. Love Him, and He will love you. Adore Him and He will bless you. Live in the virtue and He will draw you to His side.”
7 Then, he gave his last breath. And all looked around, from one to the other, not truly understanding this serenity that was still evident on the face of their guide. They buried his body in the middle of the valley, where they would live henceforth. They made the oath that, each week, they would meet around his tomb, so that he could accompany them and guide them when they would pay homage to God.
8 But none understood the love that Oane had for God which allowed him to accept death with so much serenity. Still, nobody wanted to speak the least reproach towards him who had made so much for them. In homage to his life in the service of human and God, they decided to name the city that they were going to build Oanylone, “the city of Oane”.
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Chapiter II - « Work »
1 Over time, the men and women became increasingly numerous, maintaining their love for God and rejecting into the darkness the Creature Without Name. This one nourished each day a little more its bitterness and its anger towards these people so beloved of God, who had taken from him his place as ruler of Creation. The men and the women lived carefree while, in the darkness, their enemy prepared its revenge.
2 God had ordered the men and the women to work to ensure their survival. This hard labour thus moved them away from apathy. And the men and the women could be inventive, because God had conceived them thus. They collected what He had placed for them in nature. They learned to organize these resources to ensure their survival and their life became better.
3 They took the wheat that grew in nature and cultivated it in their fields. The miller transformed wheat into flour in his mill. The baker cooked it in his furnace to make the bread. They took the corn that grew in nature and cultivated it also in their fields. They took the vegetables that grew in nature and cultivated them in their kitchen gardens. They gathered the fruits that were in certain trees and took nourishment from them. The pleasure brought by vegetables and fruits made them more pleasant to be around.
4 In the seas, rivers and lakes, they caught fish and their intelligence was increased. They invented the boat and the fish were still more in their hands. Sometimes, some of them awoke one morning under a boat. They thanked God for this gift then. They raised cows, pigs and sheep in their pasture, taking care of these creatures that had been entrusted to them by God. They nourished them and these creatures became fatter.
5 The butcher prepared the meat starting with the carcasses of these creatures. For that, they invented the knife, an instrument making it possible to separate the flesh into pieces. The meat that they drew nourished them, and they felt especially stronger after having consumed some. From the cows they also took milk, soft nectar without equal.
6 They sheared the sheep and took wool of it. They recovered the skin of it to make leather. They bound wool and leather to make of them clothing, which protected them from the wind and ensured the decency of their appearance. Nature giving them access to all that they could hope for, they had to invent the barrel, where they could store the fruits of their labour.
7 To protect themselves when the windows of the sky opened, they created for themselves houses and lived there. They arranged inside them beds, candles, tables, chairs… and all that could improve the comfort of their lives. For that, the miner took the stone and iron in the mines. And the logger cut the wood of the trees. To facilitate this work, the blacksmith melded iron and wood to forge tools of them, such as the axes or the knives.
8 Sometimes, God contributed to this age of happiness through giving to those who were pleased with the world some food that they did not have to produce. Sometimes, also, He encouraged them while making them more charismatic, stronger, or more intelligent. And each Sunday, before the meal, they met in the middle of their city, around the tomb of Oane, to pray together to He that loved them so much. Indeed, they did not have Priests yet, because they did not have need of them, being in direct communion with God.
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Chapiter III - « Apathy »
1 The community of men and women became more beautiful and refined.
2 Thus, they learned how to produce wine starting from the grape, after long years spent trying to comprehend the subtleties and the refinement of such a drink. They also discovered how to brew beer starting from the barley and hops. For this they invented furnaces of impressive size. They had to learn how to work in concert in order to arrive at such results. But they did not doubt that the activity was worth the effort of it.
3 Moreover, arts and sciences were then conceived to raise them still more towards God. They learned how to compose music, the songs becoming increasingly beautiful and the instruments that accompanied them better and better conceived. They discovered plants that treated wounds and diseases, so that their health allowed them to serve and glorify God longer. They invented writing, which enabled them to preserve all their knowledge for the generations to come.
4 God was satisfied. His children had cultivated themselves in the place that He had given them. Nevertheless, He knew that this beautiful spring was going to see the flowers of virtue fading, because the Creature Without Name ruminated still on its rage and its anger. Lying low in the darkness, it awaited the moment to prove to the Most High that the answer that Oane had given was not the best. It continued in its error, denying the force of love and persisting to conceive the domination of the weak by the strong as the purpose of life.
5 But all the inventions that the human ones had created made their labor less hard. They had less and less work to do and more and more fruits to be collected. Where before it took a full month for them to raise and harvest wheat, they now could gain the same amount in only a third of the time. Whereas they before could only catch one fish every two days, they had one per day henceforth of them, and sometimes two. Where it was necessary for them formerly to work each day to cultivate vegetables, it did not remain to them any more from now on but to harvest them.
6 And the principal one of sciences did not exist yet, as Theology was unknown to these humans. Not having Priests, there was nobody yet to devote themselves entirely to God. Not having a holy text, there was nothing to study. The human faith was yet primitive, in that it did not yet have any intermediary between man and God. But this apparent purity of their love for God was precisely what was going to lead them to their loss.
7 The human ones became intoxicated by the gentleness of their lives. It seemed to them so easy and so pleasant that they did not understand any more the desire to devote their life to work. Each pleasure gave the opportunity to them to neglect their labour. They liked the world, but they liked it for itself, not because God had given it to them, by His love for them. They were diverted little by little from their love of God.
8 Thus did the humans involuntarily discover the first sin. It later bore the name of apathy. This sin consisted of being diverted from divine love, to give itself over to the material life by neglecting the spiritual life, to be concerned with the present without thought for what God had designed us for. This one sin was going to bring the other sins, thus leading the human ones to their loss. It reached its height when Sunday was not occupied any more with the prayer, but with sheer idleness.
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Chapiter IV - « The sins »
1 The human ones had discovered apathy. They had scorned the love of God. They preferred the material things that He had created over God Himself. They had taken great enjoyment with a portion of the divine, forgetting that they must love the whole. Oane was not there any more to guide them, he who had been the only one to truly understand the love of the Most High. Now, without their guide, the human ones could no longer differentiate between the virtue and the sin.
2 Some were then reflected to eat more than hunger required it of them, taking there a pleasure that grew over time. The sweetened taste of fruit, the savour of meat and the intoxication of alcohol overtook the simple pleasures of the life. There was no more the least place in their pleasure for the soft scent of the flowers, nor for the beauty of the landscapes. They came to such a point that even the many fruits of their own labor were not enough any more to fill their desires.
3 At this point in time greed broke the bonds that linked the men and the women. Each one kept for themselves the fruits of their own labor and refused to share it. The strong produced more, ate more, drank more, and became stronger still. The weak ones produced less, ate less, drank less, and weakened. The community of men and women divided because of their immoderate taste for the material things that led them to avarice.
4 Then, the man and the woman developed pride. The strong started to scorn the weak ones, which could not be nourished as much as they wished it. Like the Creature Without Name, they thought now that the role of the strong was to dominate the weak. The Creature Without Name thus saw that the hour of its revenge had come. It then went forth in the darkness and approached those that were thus scorned. It asked them: “Why let these others make you thus, why not act to reverse these roles?”
5 And the weak started to envy the strong. The strong, satisfied with their situation, did not see the weak ones wondering why they were less gifted than the strong. The Creature Without Name gloated in joy, because it felt the hour of its glory arrive. It murmured in the ears of the weak and poked their desire. Anger thundered in the heart of weak, which revolted internally against this injustice. It asked them why they bound this feeling in their spirit and did not let it be expressed?
6 Then, man and woman struck their brothers and sisters. Taking knife and axe in hand, each one struck the other in a storm of violence and destruction. They had just invented war, which reached its paroxysm when each one started to burn the house and to devastate the fields of the other. The Creature Without Name came again close to those whom had listened to it and said to them that violence and hatred would henceforth enable them to dominate their neighbours.
7 The man then took the woman and the woman took the man. The strong misused the weak and the weak one suffered the strong. All were linked in a bestial orgy of indecent assault and violence. Their mixed bodies reflected the flames of the houses that burned. Food was devoured and drink was guzzled down. The whispers encouraged the indecent gestures. A true orgy of vice took place. And no more thought was given to the love of God.
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Chapiter V - « The King of Sin »
1 That lasted for weeks and then months. Human vice did not have any more limits. Also, at that time, none had the least intention to work. Violence and indecent assault were their daily bread. The granaries were thrown down and all fought to recover food products as much as possible. They did not want anything more but to be given up with their excessive lust for material things.
2 All were wary of each other. The least pretext was good enough to start again their symphony of violence. When one, pushed by greediness, envied foods that the other had and tried to steal it for himself, the other, and full of avarice, answered by violence. Nobody any more spoke any words that were not threats or insults.
3 The men and the women did not look any more towards the stars. Sin had taken control of their lives. They had forgotten even the existence of God and did not feel any more His love. They liked nothing any more but the unhealthy pleasures of sin. Without Oane to remind them, virtue was forgotten and the vice was high on the pedestal of their hateful lives.
4 Their only outside communication was with the creature that God had not given a name. It gloated in happiness, thinking that it had finally shown the Most High that its answer was the truth and that the answer of Oane was false. According to it, the strong were to dominate the weak ones and the weak ones to submit themselves always. It denied the power of the love and hated Oane for the purity of his faith.
5 It was the only one to have remembered that he had been buried in the centre of the city. In defiance, it went there to his tomb and uncovered the tombstone. It unearthed the corpse of Oane and danced one whole night, trampling his body, and singing its joy of having destroyed his work. All around it, the city was in flames, as the humans fought, were violated, committed suicide and were tortured mutually. The hour of its triumph seemed to have come.
6 It went in the mines to recover that which it needed to forge its crown as ruler of Creation. This crown was made of gold, silver, diamond, ruby, emeralds and all that one could find that was valuable in the world. Its weight testified to pride and hatred towards the men and the women whom the creature had corrupted. And this one was the only one raising eyes to the sky, but only to show its smile of triumph towards God, of whom it awaited an admission of failure.
7 Then God desired to give a great lesson to these humans, who had betrayed Him. The sky went black above the community and the winds blew with great force. He said to them: “Whereas I gave you my love, you were diverted from Me, preferring to listen to the words of the creature to which I did not give a name. You preferred rather to give yourselves up to material pleasures than to return grace to me.”
8 It added: “I created for you a place called Hell, which I laid out in the moon, where the worst among you will know an eternity of torments to punish them their sins. In seven days, your city will be absorbed in the flames. And those that will have remained there will pass eternity in Hell. However, I am magnanimous, and those among you who will be able to make penitence will pass eternity in the sun, in Paradise.”
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Chapiter VI - « Punishment »
1 The human ones had given themselves over to the sin as God had decided to punish them. But the majority of them did not understand that they themselves had fault in this, so much had they abandoned themselves to their vices. They had taken so much enjoyment in the pleasures of life that they trembled at the idea of any punishment or deprivation. Great numbers of them then decided to flee the cursed city of Oanylone. Nevertheless, the Creature Without Name found seven humans whose taste for sin was as if they truly could be the very incarnation of it.
2 Asmodeus had been given up in greediness, Azazel with lust, Belial with pride, Lucifer with apathy, Beelzebub with avarice, Leviathan with anger and Satan with envy. According to the councils of the Creature Without Name, they preached rebellion against God, affirming that only jealousy justified Him in His decision to punish the human ones. They added that He was weak and could never put His threat into execution. Many of the human ones listened to them with attention.
3 Seven other humans, however, understood well the errors they had made. Their names were Gabriel, George, Michel, Uriel, Galadrielle, Selaphiel, and Raphaella. They preached humility, affirming that it was necessary to accept the punishment in order to wash away the sin. The speech of each one testified to the virtues that they had started to incarnate. Gabriel made watch of temperance, George of friendship, Michel of justice, Uriel of generosity, Galadrielle of conservation, Selaphiel of pleasure, and Raphael of conviction. Only a handful of the human ones were sensitive to their words, but the purity of the faith of each one of these was worth the vice of one hundred sinners.
4 The six days were terrible, the lightning tearing the sky and the thunder shaking the will of the weakest. Multitudes of the human ones fled the city then. There only remained the vilest, which listened to the sermons of the seven incarnations of sin, and the most virtuous, which, like the seven incarnations of virtue, accepted the punishment of God. Even the Creature Without Name had prudence to escape, letting the seven corrupted ones forward its ambitions alone in their madness.
5 The seventh day concluded the divine sentence in a titanic cataclysm. In a deafening tremor, the ground opened under the feet of the few remaining in the city. The high flames devoured them. The buildings were broken down, the stones raining on their inhabitants, and the flames devastated all. Soon, the entire city was absorbed into the bowels of the earth, not leaving any more trace of its existence.
6 God punished the seven incarnations of the sins. They were thrown to the moon, alive for an eternity of sufferings under the title of Prince-demons. Those whom had listened to them underwent the same terrible fate, bearing since the title of demons. Their love of vice and their hatred of God only increasing at the passage of the centuries, they took more and more unhealthy pleasure to practice their office. And their bodies reflected little by little the blackness and the beastliness of their hearts.
7 But God saw that the seven pure ones, and those who had followed them, had proven that the human ones were capable of repentance and of humility. He raised them to the sun and they were blessed by an eternity of happiness in Paradise. The seven pure ones were called archangels and their disciples were called angels. They were to assist the Most High by helping the human ones, each time it would be necessary, to fight the temptation of the creature which He had not named.
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Chapiter VII - « Exodus »
1 The whole city of Oanylone was thus absorbed into the bowels of the world, devoured by the flames. In order to purify the land, God spread salt on the traces of the city of the sin, so that no more life would settle and thrive there. The power of divine cataclysm covered the sky in dust for several miles around. The various groups that had fled redoubled their speed in order to escape the catastrophe, leaving behind them all vestiges of their old life. The majority cried out at what seemed to them to be an injustice. Being separated from God and His love, they did not understand the rightness of His divine decision.
2 Some arrived to the sea. They cut trees and made boats of them. It took them much time to complete these constructions. Indeed, they had lost the practice of the labor and it pained them to be put to work. They spent more time lounging on the beach than seeking to nourish themselves or building their ships. But the rolling clouds of dust reminded them always that they were to be working. Little by little, they took again enjoyment of the effort and, even if they did not live any more in the virtue, their debased companies did not know any more the vice of the sins that they had practised in Oanylone.
3 When the boats were ready, they left to traverse the world, crossing the seas and landing on all the coasts that seemed to them favourable. Other groups of refugees fled even further inland in flight from the cataclysm. They crossed various forests, marshes, rivers, streams, valleys, hills, mountains, ravines, glaciers and plains. Each time they found a place favourable to their settlement, a group stopped and founded a city there.
4 Thus, they populated the whole world gradually, installing villages everywhere they came to. Each city organized its political system. They elected chiefs, who managed the resources of their communities. Those named guards, so that the laws of the city were respected. In order to finance this incipient hierarchy, they took gold and silver from the mines and melted them to make currency of it. This idea facilitated the exchanges between each city.
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But, especially, it enabled them to exchange goods between cities. But this trade enriched some whereas it impoverished others. The cities were competing more and more between themselves for control of the resources. What they could not have by trade, they tried to obtain by force. Thus, each city organized an army, training up soldiers, in order to fight to enrich their community and its leaders.
6 Then, God decided to allow them to learn the friendship, so that humans would cease killing each other. He divided the single language into a multitude of languages. The human ones were no longer able to understand the words spoken in other cities. The Most High then allowed them to be able to learn the languages that they did not know. This training required for each one to open itself to the culture of the other. Thus, they were less inclined to combat, being given understanding of the other due to efforts necessary to learn the languages from those that they wanted to attack.
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Chapiter VIII - « Paganism »
1 The groups of humans having fled Oanylone thus had dispersed and populated the world. Their descendants had founded cities, had formed governments and had invented money, which allowed trade. But they had also invented war and, to encourage them to better knowledge instead of more fighting, God had divided the single language into a multitude of languages.
2 Among all these humans, a group was formed, seeking to understand divine reality. But this group was quite as ignorant of God as the rest of humanity. The human ones did not feel any more His divine love, because they had been diverted from Him. They sought an explanation to their life, while the answer was given to them. But they could no longer listen to it and remained deaf to His love.
3 The group decided that in each thing, in each element that surrounds the men and women, there was a spirit whose power exceeded their understanding. These elemental spirits had superhuman capacities. They were equipped with varied personalities and never failed to compete with each other in order to prove who was strongest.
4 Thus, no longer having God in their hearts, they had invented a whole Pantheon of false gods. As the sky covers the world and is the source of the light, they made the god of the sky the king of their divinities. Its lightning quickly became famous and every human very quickly learned to fear it. As the human ones did not know any more the virtue, the gods whom they had invented were as corrupt as themselves. Their divine king could transform himself into a gold cloud to practice the sin of lust with princesses.
5 To honor their multiple divinities, the human ones created churches that were dedicated to them and named them “temples.” Themselves, acting as preachers in their paganism, appointed “priests.” They begged the assistance of their gods and, in exchange, sacrificed animals to them. Whereas God had taught through Oane that the multiple creatures of the world, although subjected to humans, were to be respected, it was by their blood that the pagan ones revered their false divinities.
6 But there was no love for their new gods. Those were only used to render services in exchange for these sacrifices. Admittedly, these pagans respected their divinities, but it was by fear rather than by love. Many cities gathered in kingdoms, having at their head the kings. These called upon the pagan priests so that their divinities should come to them to provide assistance, and the false priests believed the future of the cities was written in animal entrails.
7 But there remained a vacuum in the heart of the men and women. They missed that for which they had been conceived. They missed the love that God wanted to give them and that He waited for in return. Then, God decided that the moment had come to remind His Creation of its purpose. He found a child in the city that was called Stagirus and taught His Word to him so that the man could find the way of virtue. This child was called Aristotle.
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