Personal Servants: The Psychology of Sacrifice

Full title: Personal Servants: The Psychology of Sacrifice 
Author: Dr. Gail Cordwin 2140 IC 
Published: American Medical Collegium Press 2258 Locally Collegium Arcane Press 2021 CE.
Format: Dead tree
Content: The book in that dry scholarly language goes into the psychology of those persons that dedicate themselves to continued sacrifice to the gods, IE personal servants.
The book discusses why otherwise perfectly sane people offer themselves up for torture and death repeatedly in the name of service to a god. Why they do it to start with and why after resurrection they keep coming back for more.
It further discuses those that do it once and don't come back for more. And why do the two differ.
One of the books most disturbing conclusions is that the personal servant is not a person of weak will. The weak willed cannot endure the practice, rather personal servants are made of stern and willful souls indeed. The fact they have dedicated themselves to a god should make you step back and take them very seriously.
==Reaction==
===Terra===
This book was published in a Parallel Earth the Greyhawkens call "Terra". The American Medical Collegium does not exist here. They also it seem have MacDonald's and a Holidaie Inn.
It is considered, by some, one of the most dangerous books ever written. The author in attempting to understand the psychology of Personal Servants ended up as one. It had been said that to truly understand this work you will end up as a sacrifice yourself. Some have claimed it less a scholarly work as a recruitment tract.
This viewpoint is scoffed at by those many mortal doctors that have read and understand the work, and have not ended up as sacrifices to the gods. No less light than Julian has said that if one is so inclined, and can get through the rather dense scholarly language of the work it might encourage, however it is not a sure road to sacrifice or even a likely one.
===Our Earth===
The Collegium Arcane has one, the Magi Temple has one. The source is the Magi Temple as the author is one of Abba Eecreeana's personal servants It has not been advertized or disseminated. Some people are aware of it.
It is as stated; a very dry medical paper meant for the readers of dry medical papers and was never intended to be placed in general circulation. The average smart person is asleep before they finish the forward.
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