Chapter 246 The Holy Path is Immortal
The dark red watchtower is covered with white snow, like a silent giant, standing among a group of low and pale houses.
Go past the thick door panel and climb up to the stacked windows.
The windows on each floor are protected by iron bars. Above the windows are rows of exquisite stone carvings of angels and acanthus leaves.
The towering spire points straight into the sky, as if it is about to pierce the clouds. The weather vane on the top of the tower is buried in the snow, and only occasionally shines with a metallic luster.
White snow covers both sides of the cobblestone streets, and among the snowdrifts are vendors who are still shouting through gritted teeth.
The wheels were rolling, and a fine carriage stopped in front of the watchtower.
With the bag of books in his hand and his luggage put away, Mittern jumped from the carriage and trotted to the gate with exquisite bronze decorations.
After staying in Qiumu Island for five days, it was not until January 3 that Mittern and Sissi left in a hurry with the contract.
Martial stayed on as Horn's legal adviser, helping him organize ancient books and establish laws.
It was only today, January 10, that Mitnich, who had traveled both by land and water, rushed back to Rapid City.
In addition to returning the results of the covenant, he came back to apply for a blacksmith and a wizard with lightning spells for Horn.
The guard at the door knew Mitternich, so he let him in naturally. He followed the spiral staircase to the second floor, and Mitigni walked smoothly to the edge of the waiting room.
A middle-aged priest was chatting awkwardly with Carter.
"Carter, where is Lady Catherine?" After entering the waiting room, Mitnet smiled apologetically at the middle-aged priest and asked Carter.
When Carter saw Mittern, he breathed a sigh of relief as if seeing a savior: "Over there in the living room, we are not allowed in for the time being... This is Brother Martin."
The middle-aged priest stood up and saluted: " Good afternoon, you must be Lord Mitternich. I am Brother Martin of Blago Monastery. Ms. Catherine is talking to our new abbot Ludwig of Blago Monastery.”
Mitternich. He immediately laughed: "Hello, Brother Martin, just call me Mitternich. I'm here at the right time today."
"Why?"
Mitternich took it out of the bag A book: "We got a volume of their theological work "Holy Word of Salvation" from the Salvation Army. I wanted you to read it in detail. You happened to be here today."
Carter looked at the title above suspiciously: "The Holy Word is inferior...can they still have theological works?"
Martin looked at the cover and asked: "Can you show it to me?"
Mitnich handed over the book in his hand: "Of course, it was originally meant for you."
Martin took the well-bound book from Mitnich.
This "Holy Way of Salvation" is only the first draft, so it is not very thick. There are only dozens of sheets of paper and hundreds of pages of text.
The whole book is more like a collection of essays than a book.
Divided into five chapters: Messiah's free will, the basis and origin of inequality, the corruption of the Holy See, the birth of the Thousand Valleys, and the road to the Holy Father.
In the first chapter, "Horn" demonstrates the sanctity of free will, citing the Gospels and a long-lost ancient book to argue that "the basis of moral responsibility is free will."
In the second chapter, "Horn" quotes the Gospels to argue that people are essentially the same and are all created by the Holy Father.
The first two chapters, which occupy more than half of the page, establish the "truth" and lead to the following three chapters.
The third chapter cites evidence to denounce the corruption of the church, and quotes the Gospel, "All who believe are in one place, and all things are in common." to prove that church property is used to serve the poor and vulnerable groups.
The fourth chapter, from the perspective of the truth of equality, is extremely satirical to the secular authority of the monarchy system represented by the empire, and proposes that Qianhe River Valley is geographically oppressed, and Qianhe River Valley people are spiritually oppressed. Oppression is a form of inequality.
The fifth chapter talks about the methods that ordinary people should use to get close to the Holy Father in the absence of the Holy See.
The core idea lies in the exploration and research of nature, the greatest creation of the Holy Father, and provides a series of feasible means.
At first, Martin only flipped through it roughly, but the more he read, the more focused he became. Later, he flipped to the front and started from the beginning.
Even as he watched, he subconsciously took out the red ink and quill pen and began to make notes and marks in the blank spaces of the pages.
You know, the local priests in Qianhe River Valley have been thinking about how to break through the career ceiling.
After numerous attempts and failures, they gathered in despair at the Monastery of Brago. Under the leadership of Juano, they began to try to rebel against the church. But when it comes to resisting the church, why and how to resist is a vague topic.
These questions are all answered in the book, and in Martin's opinion they are very consistent with his understanding of the people of the Thousand Valleys.
From the perspective of the Qianhe River Valley people, they are not against the Messiah. They only say that they are expelling the Church of the Qianhe River Valley, which can win over small landowners, low-level nobles and low-level priests.
Call for freedom, abolish the "Fugitive Slave Law" to win over public farmers, advocate equality, and abolish the "Labor Law" to win over citizens and workers.
The only ones standing on the opposite side were the big nobles and big landowners, and they were beaten into devils and demons by Horn.
After unifying everyone’s demands, he was able to round out his words, proving that it was not him who deliberately catered to the situation, but that it was decreed by Messila thousands of years ago.
What the rebels did to unite most of them was righteous. They were obviously resisting the church, but there was no psychological barrier.
As an uprising program, although there are many small flaws, there are no problems at all in the overall situation.
This book is not without errors. Many times, when formal teachings can be used, they have to quote dubious ancient sources.
And there are too many doubtful elements. Always overturning the verdict will greatly reduce the credibility.
Some problems can be said to be just isolated cases and do not affect the massive phenomenon, or the facts can be simply ignored.
But the book insists on using dubious sources from unknown sources to overturn the doctrine with numerous patches, which is puzzling.
This made the book that was originally very popular with Martin, a Juanist, always have a poisonous point that would offend his appetite and make him unable to help but take out a pen to revise it.
"The explanation here is wrong." Just as he was writing furiously in the margins of the book, an old finger stretched out from his hand and clicked on the sentence Martin had just finished writing.
Martin raised his head in shock, only to find that Ludwik, the new dean of Brago, was standing behind him: "You have confused the concepts of feeling and perception. The inference here is obviously wrong. The other person’s is right.”
In this small waiting room, Carter had already left, leaving only Mitnich standing next to Catherine with a smile.
"Dean Ludwik." Martin quickly stood up and saluted, "I was fascinated by it. I deliberately, oh no, accidentally wrote an annotation in the book."
Ludvik was a lanky old man with a gloomy face. He took the book from Martin's hand with drooped eyelids and started to read.
"The intention is very high, there are too many doubts, and the doctrines and classics cited are not familiar." With Ludwick's theological background, it is natural to see that the basic level of this book is actually average.
Obviously, this is a work compiled by a few seminary students and monastery minors.
But even Ludwick had to admit that the overall thesis may not be very good, but the intention is very high.
The whole proposition is self-consistent from the establishment of two truths to the extension of truth to reality to specific means.
If such a collection of essays were placed in a seminary, his instructor might ask him to reduce the content of doubtful scriptures and increase the number of credible classics and orthodox teachings, and he would be able to graduate after polishing it in three to five years.
However, the propositions put forward in this paper such as the return of religious property to the public and the abolition of the Labor Law actually coincide with the ideas of the Juannos.
Ludvik even had the feeling that "he said all my words".
After all, as a theological sect, the core ideas of Juanoism have not been established and cannot be explained holistically and rationally from the root.
In other words, there is a standard but no book, and this book is a perfect reference for the core ideas of the Juanists.
"Those...the Salvation Army, what exactly do you want to do with this book?" Ludwick asked, weighing the book in his hand.
Mitnich glanced at Catherine before replying: "They need you to jointly review and create this book "Holy Word of Salvation" as a programmatic document for them to launch an uprising."
< br>Holding the "Sacred Way of Salvation" in his hand, the old dean fell silent, his slightly narrowed eyes making it difficult for others to understand his expression.
"Martin."
"I'm here, teacher." Martin stood respectfully.
"I will open the monastery library to you and give you all authority. You can choose any well-educated young priest. Can you bind and modify this book?"
"In the name of Messila, Give me two weeks, I think I can do it!”
(End of this chapter)