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Chapters (77)
  1. PROLOGUE:  KERRICK
  2. Title Page
  3. ONE
  4. TWO
  5. THREE
  6. FOUR
  7. FIVE
  8. SIX
  9. SEVEN
  10. EIGHT
  11. NINE
  12. TEN
  13. ELEVEN
  14. TWELVE
  15. THIRTEEN
  16. FOURTEEN
  17. FIFTEEN
  18. SIXTEEN
  19. SEVENTEEN
  20. EIGHTEEN
  21. NINETEEN
  22. TWENTY
  23. TWENTY-ONE
  24. TWENTY-TWO
  25. TWENTY-THREE
  26. TWENTY-FOUR
  27. TWENTY-FIVE
  28. TWENTY-SIX
  29. TWENTY-SEVEN
  30. TWENTY-EIGHT
  31. TWENTY-NINE
  32. THIRTY
  33. THIRTY-ONE
  34. THIRTY-TWO
  35. THIRTY-THREE
  36. THIRTY-FOUR
  37. THIRTY-FIVE
  38. ENVOY
  39. THE WORLDWEST OF EDEN
  40. YILANÈ
  41. THE TANU
  42. THE PARAMUTAN
  43. DICTIONARIES
  44. ZOOLOGY
  45. BANSEMNILLA
  46. BOAT
  47. CLOAK
  48. DEER
  49. EISEKOL
  50. ELINOU
  51. ENTEESENAT
  52. EPETRUK
  53. ESTEKEL*
  54. GREATDEER
  55. GULAWATSAN
  56. HÈSOTSAN
  57. ISEKUL*
  58. LONGTOOTH
  59. MASINDUU
  60. MASTODON
  61. NAEBAK
  62. NENITESK
  63. NESKHAK
  64. NINKULILEB
  65. OKHALAKX
  66. ONETSENSAST
  67. RUUTSA
  68. SANDUU
  69. SPIKE-BACK
  70. TARAKAST
  71. UGUNKSHAA
  72. UNUTAKH
  73. URUKETO
  74. URUKTOP
  75. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  76. About the Author
  77. 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.