The Book of False Revelations
5. And the Pilgrim was brought before the Heart, and made there to prostrate himself. Gathered there also were the Great Sages of the Chamber, to hear the word of the Heart.
6. The Heart spake thus unto the Pilgrim: Who art thou, that has caused such disquiet in my realm? And the Pilgrim answered: I was a knight. I am a student.
7. The Heart said: And what, pray, dost thou study, O knight-student? And the Pilgrim answered: REVELATION. Upon this word the Sages gasped, for such was the secret wisdom sought by the Chamber also.
8. The Heart marked their reaction, and said: The greatest minds of my Empire are discomfited, knight-student; why should it be so? And the Pilgrim answered: Because your greatest minds are as mewling cubs before a great tiger. And the ecstasy of prophecy came up on him, and he spake thus:
9. Know this, O Heart of the Empire: You seek REVELATION, but you cannot see beyond the walls of your Chamber, your Empire, your time. The Yanrin Didan is as sand in an hourglass: from within it seems to flow freely without end, but every grain is trapped, a single mote of Eternity bound forever in a glass prison.
10. But I have witnessed, and I tell you that there is not one REVELATION but four: DOMINATING, CLEANSING, RESTORING, and ETERNAL. And every mote of Eternity will receive REVELATION.
11. And the Pilgrim was taken from the Chamber of the Heart of the Empire, and it was decreed that none would ever repeat his lies or speak of these false revelations.
6. The Heart spake thus unto the Pilgrim: Who art thou, that has caused such disquiet in my realm? And the Pilgrim answered: I was a knight. I am a student.
7. The Heart said: And what, pray, dost thou study, O knight-student? And the Pilgrim answered: REVELATION. Upon this word the Sages gasped, for such was the secret wisdom sought by the Chamber also.
8. The Heart marked their reaction, and said: The greatest minds of my Empire are discomfited, knight-student; why should it be so? And the Pilgrim answered: Because your greatest minds are as mewling cubs before a great tiger. And the ecstasy of prophecy came up on him, and he spake thus:
9. Know this, O Heart of the Empire: You seek REVELATION, but you cannot see beyond the walls of your Chamber, your Empire, your time. The Yanrin Didan is as sand in an hourglass: from within it seems to flow freely without end, but every grain is trapped, a single mote of Eternity bound forever in a glass prison.
10. But I have witnessed, and I tell you that there is not one REVELATION but four: DOMINATING, CLEANSING, RESTORING, and ETERNAL. And every mote of Eternity will receive REVELATION.
11. And the Pilgrim was taken from the Chamber of the Heart of the Empire, and it was decreed that none would ever repeat his lies or speak of these false revelations.
-- Oru am Didanralithien, The Book of False Revelations, VIII, 5:11