Tabe Replace (Book)

Tabe Replace - also known as the First Book of Lem (see also: Second Book of Lem) is the central religious text of the Holy Church of Pem. A mixture of history, theology, and biography, the book primarily recounts stories of the prophet Equialis.
== Text ==
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==== I ====
 See a myriad of colours, strewn across a canvas; The blue sky, the green trees, the sun burning yellow, the red fires of the hearth. Seek colour and, in doing so, seek substance. The path of the colours is the only true path to the gods.
Equialis knew this as he sat under the sainted yew tree, dreaming of what was and what might be. He, Hypnogogeus who had wandered long in the Wastes of Lem knew of the full spectrum, and that without the Light one could not see. He would bring that Light to his people in good time.
In the mind's eye that had been gifted unto him, Equialis spied the spires of a great, insurmountable and boundless city-to-be. A terra built of the Hues and the Refractions. Equialis knew it would not be he who built this epitome Civic of colour, but those who came after him.
==== II ====
It began with a burst of light which came unsullied over the infinite Waters of the World-to-Be. And from those Waters came the spires on which the mountains were built around. And around the mountains were built the hills, and around the hills, the beaches which held the sands through which the waters poured and the stones churned.
This primordial soup of land and sea scooped Equialis from its bosom and thrust him forth. From within its embrace, he danced into infinity and touched Creation.
And O! Equialis was made whole and one with the world, the convergence of Ways of Being making the universe him and him the universe.
He understood, under that yew tree. He knew that the gods were with him, and the world with the gods, and the world with him. And all had emerged darkly into dazzling radiance; a universal dichotomy joined in equialibrium. 
It was with this that Equialis learned of the importance of his small part to play, and of the significance of each and every disciple that would come after him. Joined together in the cosmic ballet, joined in minds and deeds forevermore.
==== III ====
And it was in the days of King Calamon, when the Lemmites were slaves in the land of Bejel, that Equialis was born.
Lost in a tribe which was lost, father to a new people who would be lost also in a different way, so was the greatest man born in a humble way to a mother who was a whore and a man who sailed out to sea and was drowned (or so they say!).
Amongst the sinners and the priests of yore, Equilais spake the new learned word of colours. But their vile tongues did lick his face and spit in his mouth at the words he poured.   
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