Canaanism/The Holy Writs

A complete edition of the The Holy Writs, the entire s of the religion of Canaanism, organised by Apocrypha, Book, Chapter, and Verse where those are applicable, and by entry number and date where those are applicable.

Chapter I
(1) JUST in the previous moment, when the evening sun had given me time to reflect upon the beginning of my journey here, just then as the sky shifted from luminous blue to the tawny, brazen golden light of dusk, that is when HE THE MESSENGER came to me.

(2) I had fallen away with my thoughts. I was lost in the oblivion of the world, all that stood between knowing and acting, and it was without notice that I found myself impeded. I was unable to move, and before me shone a bright light like the sun had come down from the sky and gracefully sat himself down on the ground in front of me.

(3) In that moment, I could lift no part of my body, and it was as if some great, unseeable weight had been set upon the entirety of me, following my shape and my form, holding me completely still as I was upon the ground.

(4) From out of the light before me came a figure, cloaked in strips of white cotton cloth, wrapped about his face, though from the shape of the creature it was apparent to me that it could only be the body of a man, yet a man blessed with two wings upon His back, white with feathers, as if those of a bird had been placed upon the back of some person.

(5) HE then spoke; “Do not fear me, for I come to bring rest to man. I am BASHUL, HE THE MESSENGER, and to you JOHN I speak at the behest of the ONE TRUE GOD; HE that brought the Universe into existence; HE that blessed Man with the gift of knowing; HE that light that warms the Soul and nourishes the Heart. It is HE, ISACHUL, that brought me to you.”

(6) HE THE MESSENGER spoke; “This Universe, all that you know and all that you can ever dream of knowing, it is greater than anything you can possibly understand. You, JOHN, are but one of many people, living your life questioning all that can be known, all that should be known, all that could be known.”

(7) And HE THE MESSENGER spoke; “There is something worthy and noble in this deed, questioning, but what is the worth of a question without an answer. What is found in constantly believing that all is meant to have some resolute end. This is but an illusion, for though Man may attempt to know the world as beginning and end, he will never find any happiness in the middle of the story.”

(8) HE THE MESSENGER spoke; “You, JOHN, find yourself in this very middle, far from that which will come and equally far from that which has been told. For beyond your life is bound all that of past and future, and so in your life you find no resolution, nor grounding. This is why you question all of it so very much, JOHN.”

(9) And HE THE MESSENGER spoke; “But there is a problem in your method, JOHN. You search,

Like a dog that tracks a robber in the darks of night, / Lost in a forest yet determined with the light beside you, / Ever pursuing, Ever persistent.

Yet in this search, you, JOHN, do find yourself on numerous occasions, wondering if there is ever any worth in the world, questioning the very question itself.”

(10) HE THE MESSENGER spoke; “I have come to reveal to you the nature of the world, to set you easy at rest, knowing in your heart that light does guide the universe, that there can be some relief in the hardships that you face, that you are never alone on those the darkest of nights, and that you are free, JOHN, you are free so long as you are worthy.”

(11) And HE THE MESSENGER spoke; "You are incapable of knowing all that can be known, all that can be said, about this, the Universe. For there is nothing that you could ever begin to comprehend of that beyond all that exists, that, the MASCHALCA. Only that which lies within HE, THE ONE TRUE GOD, is that which one can even begin to understand."

(12) HE THE MESSENGER spoke; "For this is true, you are within HE, THE ONE TRUE GOD, you are as much a part of Him, as HE is a part of you. HE is the one that spake the words which shook the void and tore asunder being. For through this act all that can be known and all that is worthy of being known came into existence. It is through Him that you are made, it is from Him that your Soul is born."

(13) And HE THE MESSENGER spoke; "All that exists around you, JOHN, the air that you breath,

The tree that sways in the wind of the breeze running down the mountain, / Bristling with life and energy on a bright, clear day, / Warm thoughts, Placid feelings,

For HE is all that is good in this Universe, JOHN, HE, THE ONE TRUE GOD, is that from which all the good things of this world came and will always come from."

(14) HE THE MESSENGER spoke; "This good, JOHN, it did not come without any cost to HE, for though HE is great and though HE is beyond what you can fully understand, there is no one thing that can ever exist without being derived from something else. For life, as you know it, is but a link in a chain, just as all time and era as you understand it, JOHN, begin and come to an end, one after the other."

(15) And HE THE MESSENGER spoke; "All the little pieces that you are able to see are born of HE, and all these pieces will meld into one another, back and forth, in a constant cycle that is repeated over eons which span long before and long after life as you see before you can be capable of existing. For this is the way that all things are ordered, for all things seek balance, whether by creation or by destruction."