Post by Corina Lucifer on Oct 15, 2009 9:07:38 GMT -5
Acknowledgement
First of all, I wish to thank my elder siblings Octavian and Gracia - may the Morning Star guide your souls to Paradise - without whom to look up to as exemplars, I would not be here. I also offer my ever-insufficient gratitude to my father, Sir Julius of the House Lucifer, who has been fully supportive of me despite my weaknesses, and is responsible for my training. I can never be grateful enough for what you have done for me. May my thanks also reach Ywain, who even now, frolics in his meadow behind the castle. I shall return to you someday, I promise.
Preface
While I doubt that many people will find this humble work of prose even readable, seeing as it is authored in Braille, my hopes go out to those of you who find this piece and take to heart what it wishes to imbibe. Without Law, there can be no Order. Without Order, Understanding. Without Understanding, Reason. Without Reason, Objectivity. And without Objectivity, Justice.
Though the world may seem chaotic beyond any hope, have faith! A system exists. A system that embodies the line of reasoning I had just given you. It is a system designed to compensate for its own flaws, to ensure that the best can be made out of this imperfect world. In the pitch blackness of the night, is a lit candle. And that candle, is something I can share to you, pass on, so that along its journey, it may find other candles to light up, and banish the darkness of ignorance and fear that has dominated all man.
Allow me to begin with a short lyric, taken from a song which has served my family, the House Lucifer, as a creed, for countless ages...
There, out in the darkness
A fugitive running
Fallen from grace
Fallen from grace
As the Light is my witness
I never shall yield
Till we come face to face
Till we come face to face
He knows his way in the dark
Mine is the way of the Law
And those who follow the path of the righteous
Shall have their true reward
And if they fall
As Donati Fell
The flame
The sword
Stars
In your multitudes
Scarce to be counted
Filling the darkness
With Order and Light
You are the Sentinels
Silent and sure
Keeping watch in the night
Keeping watch in the night
You know your place in the sky
You hold your course and your aim
And each in your season returns and returns
And is always the same
And if you fall
As Donati fell
You fall
In flame
And so it has been
And so it is written
On the doorway to paradise
That those who falter and those who fall
Must pay the price
May the Light let me find him
That I may see him
Safe behind bars
I will never rest
Till then
This I swear
By the Morning Star
First of all, I wish to thank my elder siblings Octavian and Gracia - may the Morning Star guide your souls to Paradise - without whom to look up to as exemplars, I would not be here. I also offer my ever-insufficient gratitude to my father, Sir Julius of the House Lucifer, who has been fully supportive of me despite my weaknesses, and is responsible for my training. I can never be grateful enough for what you have done for me. May my thanks also reach Ywain, who even now, frolics in his meadow behind the castle. I shall return to you someday, I promise.
Preface
While I doubt that many people will find this humble work of prose even readable, seeing as it is authored in Braille, my hopes go out to those of you who find this piece and take to heart what it wishes to imbibe. Without Law, there can be no Order. Without Order, Understanding. Without Understanding, Reason. Without Reason, Objectivity. And without Objectivity, Justice.
Though the world may seem chaotic beyond any hope, have faith! A system exists. A system that embodies the line of reasoning I had just given you. It is a system designed to compensate for its own flaws, to ensure that the best can be made out of this imperfect world. In the pitch blackness of the night, is a lit candle. And that candle, is something I can share to you, pass on, so that along its journey, it may find other candles to light up, and banish the darkness of ignorance and fear that has dominated all man.
Allow me to begin with a short lyric, taken from a song which has served my family, the House Lucifer, as a creed, for countless ages...
There, out in the darkness
A fugitive running
Fallen from grace
Fallen from grace
As the Light is my witness
I never shall yield
Till we come face to face
Till we come face to face
He knows his way in the dark
Mine is the way of the Law
And those who follow the path of the righteous
Shall have their true reward
And if they fall
As Donati Fell
The flame
The sword
Stars
In your multitudes
Scarce to be counted
Filling the darkness
With Order and Light
You are the Sentinels
Silent and sure
Keeping watch in the night
Keeping watch in the night
You know your place in the sky
You hold your course and your aim
And each in your season returns and returns
And is always the same
And if you fall
As Donati fell
You fall
In flame
And so it has been
And so it is written
On the doorway to paradise
That those who falter and those who fall
Must pay the price
May the Light let me find him
That I may see him
Safe behind bars
I will never rest
Till then
This I swear
By the Morning Star