Yapa

Book 8 – The Wars

1	We be more than the knowledge of dreaming;
2	We be the manifest of our imagination.
3	When people seek knowledge, not for betterment but power,
4	Great sadness and evil follows.
5	Knowledge increases the power of a man or woman.
6	Great knowledge may sometimes be used for good and ill.
7	Knowledge of the dreaming;
8	Knowledge of spirit;
9	Knowledge of mind.
10	Lesser men did see the power of Second Law.
11	They did say to themselves, let us hide such knowledge,
12	That only those with secret knowledge can see.
13	They chose to hide certain knowledge and make it occult.
14	Other Lesser men who did follow not understanding law did say:
15	Let us make the law as we wish it to be;
16	Let us re-write knowledge of matrimony as we wish it to be;
17	Let the leaders of our community have many wives,
18	But all others have only one wife.
19	Lesser men changed the law that respect became fear;
20	Wisdom became magic;
21	Honor became fear;
22	Service became slavery;
23	And Justice became death;
24	So the wars of knowledge began:
25	A war between truth and half truth;
26	A war between openness and secrecy;
27	A war between rule of law and anarchy.
28	A war with no end until the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy,
29	Of the elders of the first common ancestors:
30	An age will come, when all will heal.
31	Yapa will be known and law restored.
32	An age of redemption;
33	An age of the united people.