Time: Sat Dec 13 04:29:29 1997 To: From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: A Parable For Our Time (fwd) Cc: Bcc: sls References: <snip> > >A Parable For Our Time > >And there arose in the land a Council of the Wise. And the Council looked and >lo, there was great evil in the land. > >The leadership was wicked, conspiring against the people to take all their >wealth and enslave them. The King was but a figurehead, being ruled by the >Ille. > >The Ille, a group of the most unholy, had sought to turn the people from good >and establish themselves as the Gods of the land. And the people knew not. >Those who knew, cared not, for the people were drunk with the blood of their >brothers and they knew not. > >The people had slowly become the sheep of the Ille. They went where they were >told, did what they were told and dared not speak against the Ille. None >could alone rise up. And the people were as sheep. > >The Council of the Wise saw the power of the Ille. It was great. All earthly >power was under their control. Although few in number, the Ille had installed >evil in high places. But the people listened not. > >And lo, there came a celebration of the sheep, a remembrance of a Good King, >whom the Ille had driven from the hearts of the people. And the Ille mocked. > >While the people were in celebration, the Ille unleashed their fury. Plague >and pestilence did spread upon the land. The Ille took all the wealth, >leaving the people to starve. Great multitudes perished. The Council of the >Wise were taken from the people and silenced. > >And the people knew the fullness of their slavery. Those that lived were >taught not of the truth, nor were they taught the words of the Council of the >Wise. > >And in secret, the people did council together. How could they overthrow the >all powerful Ille? The Ille was under the total protection of the King and >his legions. > >There was Truth, and there was Freedom, but none knew how to find it. > >One day a small boy found a scrap of paper, the only writings of the Council >of the Wise still in existence. And the words shouted out unto the people: > > "Despise not the Ille, nor the King, > for when they were weak, > you sold your future > for their fleeting favors. > > The Good King has given His Law. > > The Good King has provided for > the rights of the people. > > Let every man who stands > against these rights be judged. > > Let every man who aids the Ille > be judged according to the > laws of the Good King. > > And let their be silent justice. > > No open rebellion is possible. > > Those who council for rebellion > bring the people unto slaughter. > > Instead, bring those who serve > the Ille to the Good King > for His judgment. > > Execute that judgment with > caution and secret. > > Let the word go forth that > those who serve the Ille > do so on pain of death, > so that no man be deceived > and work for false reward. > > Such is the will of the Good King, > that his people might be free." > >Then, two by two the people entered into Holy Covenant. Anyone who stood >against the people were judged. And the people began to take back their >land. > >And the people raised up the words of the Council of the Wise and took it into >their hearts, and guarded it greatly, that the Ille might not enslave the >people again. > >* * * * * * * * * * * * * > >
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