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The Road to Heaven. Volume A.
C.N.

Reader! I, the humble author of these texts, believe that if they have fallen into your hands, and your eyes behold them, and your mind attempts to grasp the meaning of what is written, then truly another good seed has been sown in this world [1, 2], so that the word of Our Most Wise Father Dante may grow and bear its fruit. So watch over your mental world, that it may be fertile ground for this [3].
Open your eyes to every truth [4]. According to the Father's precepts, look upon everything created by Mana inquisitively, deeply comprehending the essence of each thing, but not as the godless and heretics do, thinking that with their pitiful intellect alone they are capable of understanding everything. No, the Father commanded us to work together [5], to accumulate knowledge in texts [4], and to share it with our brothers and sisters, so that every truth may become a fruit of faith, piety, and love [3, 4].
My primary task as the compiler of this book, merciful reader, is to guide, strengthen, and above all, rid you of all doubt. If you are just beginning in the faith, you will find in this book advice and instruction, supported by many great sources and above all the Scriptures, but in no way paraphrases of the Scriptures, as many heretics and schismatics do in an attempt to distort their meaning to suit their base pride [5 — 9]. No, it is fitting for us only to piously remember what is written, and in every interpretation to check whether your opinion aligns with the fathers of the Great Church [4, 10].
If you are established in the faith, and moreover are not an illiterate person, shamefully thinking it enough to know the Law only in words, without studying either the Scriptures or the works of the saints, then truly this book will contain little that is new or unknown to you. However, I believe that seeing texts praising the Most Wise One, you will be filled with joy that your pure soul will see in them a reflection of its mental waters.
I will not, however, be immodest by claiming that I am a pure and wholly good person, and therefore should be listened to. Alas, this is not so; I, the author, bear the heaviest burden of my sin, and moreover the punishment for this sin, which, however, is too insignificant to be able to cleanse me. I am not like many righteous people of the past who considered themselves sinners only out of humility [11 — 18]; my sin is truly great and is recognized as such by everyone around me, and has covered me with shame above my head [19]. I will understand you, my good reader, if out of disgust for me you throw this book aside and never touch it again, but I still wish to assure you that all my mental strength, all the good that is in me, all my knowledge granted to me by Our Father Dante (and I boast not of this knowledge because it is mine, but because it was granted to me from above, despite my unworthiness), all of this, tempered by the fire of strict self-discipline [4, 7], is gathered here, in this book.
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Thus it is fitting for every believer in the Creator to keep all their passions, especially their anger, in check within the reins of their thoughts, and not to cast them upon those around like unholy brimstone fire [123]. Neither your origin, nor your family, nor your upbringing, nor hardships, nor worldly cares — can serve as an excuse for committing evil, for each of us will be judged by his deeds [1, 4].
However, my dear reader, it is not without reason that I mention here the curse of lineage among other things that can influence a person and lead them to sin. The most common curse of lineage is being a creation of Risha, a non-human, as they are often called. It is well known that this lineage is less inclined to accept the holy laws of the Church of Dante than those born with round ears, although some pious elders doubt whether Risha instilled in them a skeptical and insufficiently responsible attitude towards the Law, so that the aforementioned often choose the heresy of the Seven or Risha as their beliefs, or whether it is precisely the conditions and upbringing that are to blame [56, 124, 125]. Fortunately, among them there are also many people who believe in the true gods, Mana, Dante, and Abelia, and yes, the author of this book personally knows examples of those who believed or believe in Mana, as well as one who, to the best of their modest ability, follows the law of the Creator of Laws, Dante.
Special mention should be made of that notoriously infamous group of Risha's creations known as demons. These are commonly distinguished among others as incorrigible sinners, unworthy of the life they possess. Moreover, it is often not even believed that they have a soul similar to a human one. The author of these lines, however, wishes to caution the reader against these misconceptions.
Indeed, according to the Church fathers, only Mother Mana, the Creatrix of Life, is also the creator of souls; she poured them like life-giving water into the first people, and continues to pour souls into everyone born of a woman's womb [4, 5, 10, 89, 101]. Risha, according to later Church philosophers, is the one who created races out of selfish motives, for interest or amusement, and according to some — to prove to the true gods her power and ability to create [41 — 44, 126, 127]. Risha's magic, whatever properties it may manifest, cannot be a source of life, and therefore for her creations to be alive, to breathe, think, speak, and comprehend the words of Dante, they must necessarily possess souls born from Mana and stolen from her, our merciful Submarine Mother [56, 127 — 132]. Risha merely gave these souls bodies created according to her understanding [same].
While it is true that the body can influence the mind and corrupt it, distancing it from the life-giving Laws, it is fundamentally wrong to suppose that any of Risha's creations, even demons, cannot be corrected and turned toward Heaven [4, 15, 89, 133 — 137]. And although it is true that demons often cannot bear either their curse or the conditions in which they find themselves by the "mercy" of the peoples surrounding them, and turn to lawlessness, evil, cynicism, robbery, heresy, lust, murder... Let the believer remember: that one among them who is innocent and has committed no evil, having overcome their nature and all those conditions which, unfortunately, might drive even many humans to equally great sins; that one who has a fearsome and unpleasant outward appearance but has preserved their inner purity — cannot be condemned. Moreover, judgment of any being with a human soul should be approached responsibly, strictly remembering both the proportionality of punishment to transgression and that the unjustly condemned will become an unbearable burden for the judge himself, and neither Dante, nor Mana, nor Abelia will consent to remove those shackles, except after sincere repentance, a complete change of life, and the taking of vows [4, 78, 138].
To me, the author of this book, the Most Wise Dante once sent such righteous individuals in demonic guise. By all their behavior, by their care for the lives of their friends and the lives of other people, sometimes completely unknown to them... By their kind words and ability to pronounce the names of Dante and Mana piously. By their unwillingness to shed blood and feed on it, or to engage in thievery, robbery, or any other means, so that they led an extremely impoverished lifestyle, barely surviving in wild places. By the life-giving currents of the Submarine Mother that emanated from one of them. By the strength of will of another, by their ability to emulate Dante with their fearsome appearance and battle hammer, like the Creator's, and above all by their readiness to sacrifice their life to save others, whether demon, human, or non-human. By all these signs I came to recognize them as my brothers and sisters in the True Faith.
Unfortunately, the same Risha who mocked them, clothing their bright souls in bodies unacceptable in appearance to most people, the same Risha confused the minds of my other brothers and sisters in the faith, causing them to attack those who were guilty of nothing. Without any provocation, without compassion even for defenseless children — those people, themselves unaware of the wrath of the Creator they were bringing upon themselves, killed many innocents. That sin is great, for it is said that whoever takes up the sword will perish by the sword [17]. However, in the history of the early Church it often happened that the righteous died for their faith, and their tormentors later repented of their deeds and themselves turned to the Most Wise Dante, and sometimes then suffered a painful death themselves, carrying their faith forward [11 — 13, 77, 78, 139]. I sincerely hope that the same will happen with at least some of those murderers, because the sincere faith of the deceased was then clearly visible to all who know how not to close their spiritual eyes [16, 54].
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I warn you, O merciful reader, to always be vigilant in mind and not to fall into the nets Risha has laid everywhere to ensnare both the evil and the good. For one sinner appears before us as a righteous man, like a beautiful, shiny, rich palace adorned with silver and gold, inside which unclean people live in lust, debauchery, and gluttony; inside this beautiful palace there is rot and filth [190]. The sinner often appears before us in a bad light, like a dilapidated dwelling: the roof is leaking, the walls are crooked, the windows are broken... But inside lives a good, pious person who has no money because they gave it all away, and due to their infirmity and illness cannot even repair their house [4, 191]. Do not humiliate the poor and wretched, and Dante will save both them and you, reader dear to my heart.
May the Most Wise One bless the one who finishes this book, and may the listener of the Creator's words be filled with every good thing, and may their lineage endure forever.

At the beginning of the following week, continuing the theme of the main gods, Laurence decides to introduce the students to a book by a little-known author named Coriel Naoh, which, among other things, was supposed to show that even the religion of Dante has different followers (the students assumed that the choice of this topic was most likely related to the situation with Aliduum and Sysnemis, but this was not announced).

In the next lecture, Clivia talked about how to provide first aid.
— ... Lift the injured person's chin up and tilt their head back, then pinch their nose, take a deep breath, and cover their mouth with your own, after which make two strong breaths, each lasting one second. — She looks around the class, searching for something. — Barbora, Aliduum, come here.

"Why me? No, not exactly, I really volunteer often. Why him?!"
He leaves.

— Alidum, lie down. Imagine that he is unconscious and not breathing. Barbarian, you are trying to save him with artificial respiration.

— Barbarian, Aliduum, come here.

-- Allow me -- Fortis raises his hand. -- It's a rather naive provocation, and for several reasons. First, what is the author's ecclesiastical rank? We were introduced to the most important theosophists of antiquity and modernity. The name Coriel Naoh was not among them. Second, is this a well-known figure in secular science? My knowledge in this area is not so extensive. If so, what is her background, academic degree, etc.? It seems that the text was written yesterday on the orders of the Most Honorable Levisia Starlight, Sun-Faced Directress, may Mana and Dante protect her now and forever... I might have something to say about the church's position. I am, after all, from Selene; everyone here listened to lectures about my homeland. Once, a holy father explained about demons. He explained, that is. First, he talked about the past sins of these creatures, then about the schemes of the Risha – let's even attribute this to propaganda – and, frustrated by the questions, he blurted out: "In reality, my sons, no one knows. A dozen scientific hypotheses, a hundred religious theories on top of that, but in reality, there is no unity on this issue in any city. No one knows anything about demons. And nothing is worse than ignorance. Think for yourselves." And let everyone act according to their own conscience, right? Think for yourselves what the moral is.

-- I see... Well, it sounds like he doesn't really have anything to be particularly upset about, and even if he does... Well, let's say he didn't get along with one student, but that happens, right? He probably didn't expect to be friends with everyone.
Varya thought about something. Or rather, about something quite simple, although at the same time disturbing.
-- You're living with... Aliduum now, right? -- of course, there were many rumors about this new roommate, so they reached Varya as well. Refiteika continued in a quieter voice. -- And in his plan... Have you noticed anything suspicious?

He looks at Clivia, at Aliduum. At Clivia, at Aliduum. At Clivia, at his notes, at Aliduum. The color of his face changes to red, to pale, back to red, back to pale.
-- A-and, if I may, considering propriety...
"No, if I redirect to some guy right now, they'll hate me for it..."
-- Ah! -- He abruptly changes his tune, having noticed something in the notes. -- M-maybe, first, we should make sure he's still alive?