Chapters (77)
- PROLOGUE: KERRICK
- Title Page
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
- SIX
- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
- TWELVE
- THIRTEEN
- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY-ONE
- TWENTY-TWO
- TWENTY-THREE
- TWENTY-FOUR
- TWENTY-FIVE
- TWENTY-SIX
- TWENTY-SEVEN
- TWENTY-EIGHT
- TWENTY-NINE
- THIRTY
- THIRTY-ONE
- THIRTY-TWO
- THIRTY-THREE
- THIRTY-FOUR
- THIRTY-FIVE
- ENVOY
- THE WORLDWEST OF EDEN
- YILANÈ
- THE TANU
- THE PARAMUTAN
- DICTIONARIES
- ZOOLOGY
- BANSEMNILLA
- BOAT
- CLOAK
- DEER
- EISEKOL
- ELINOU
- ENTEESENAT
- EPETRUK
- ESTEKEL*
- GREATDEER
- GULAWATSAN
- HÈSOTSAN
- ISEKUL*
- LONGTOOTH
- MASINDUU
- MASTODON
- NAEBAK
- NENITESK
- NESKHAK
- NINKULILEB
- OKHALAKX
- ONETSENSAST
- RUUTSA
- SANDUU
- SPIKE-BACK
- TARAKAST
- UGUNKSHAA
- UNUTAKH
- URUKETO
- URUKTOP
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- About the Author
- About this Title
The power to know The Truth requires a new vision of the mind. This vision enables the viewer to look at those things seen by all living beings, but to look beyond the surface to the unseen but present true order of existence.
Conscious awareness of the True Order of things enables us to identify with and give our allegiance to the Spirit of Life. This new vision, however, cannot be acquired without a major effort. It calls for a strict discipline of the mind, a conscious developing of the powers of the mind until the ability is realized to see in all things a pattern of a higher order. To be aware of this order in which all living things exist and become fulfilled.
There may be other paths that lead to the truth. If they exist I have not found them yet. But I have set my feet upon this path that has carried me through the barrier of seeing in the same manner as all others see. Now I behold reality in a different and enlightened way. I found this path by asking questions about the seemingly normal and obvious. But these were questions that Yilanè do not normally ask. I wanted to know why we are as we are. I wanted to know why we live as we do, follow the rules of existence as we do, relate one to the other as we do. I wanted to know why the eistaa is above and the fargi below. I wanted to know why we continually follow ways that are familiar and comfortable. Through our knowledge of all the sciences we modify all of the existing life-forms to meet our short-term needs. Yet we never consider modifying ourselves. For Yilanè want only stability and order for Yilanè. Tomorrow’s tomorrow will be as yesterday’s yesterday. We accept this way unquestioningly, so much so that even asking about it is seen as a threat.
Therefore I sought the fundamental facts of our existence and questioned them. But when I did I received only pragmatic answers. Answers such as when this certain thing is done that certain thing will result. But this is an observation and not a reason. The most basic and most important questions about our lives were never asked. Not only were they not asked, they were never even considered. Although all of life is taken under observation and shown to be mutable, our own existence as Yilanè was considered to be an exception. Yet this is impossible since we are one with all other life.