The Soft Doctrines of Magnus Invisible, revised: V.

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The Soft Doctrines of Magnus Invisible, revised: V. is an unlicensed text written by Douglas Goodall. It is a revision of the original text from The Soft Doctrines of Magnus Invisible. It was originally published on Goodall's Substack.Douglas Goodall – Substack
==Contents==
(E_____ 432)
This is a tribute to absence, to the weaver-workers who tied the nots.
AU-IM REFLECTS!
To the tyrant, abundance provokes reaction.
Only flawed things become their opposite.
Only a fool believes opposites are equal.
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Loving is more perilous than a dragon, harder than steel. Returning love is more perilous than a nine province army, harder than ebony.
Love for love's sake is meaningless. Love for one's own sake is emptiness. To the clerk in the counting-house, coins have no value. The poor man knows the shape and weight and flaws of each.
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This is the lesson of The Tower and The Serpent: every Wheel needs an Axis.
This is the lesson of Magnus and The Twins: every Reflection needs a Mirror.
Fire rejoices in fire.
Blood rejoices in blood.
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==Cipher==
The fifth doctrine contains multiple ciphers - the large blocks of random letters. The cipher can be solved by following the clue given in the doctrine: AU-IM REFLECTS, first reversing each line of ciphered letters. The next clue is from E_____ 432, which ultimately has us substitute the cipher's letters with the alphabet set in 4 letter sections and reversed (UVWZQRSTMNOPIJKLEFGHABCD). The letters X and Y are omitted to follow a tradition with the Daedric Alphabet (which commonly omits the two letters in texts that are written in Daedric). Taking the reversed ciphers and replacing each letter with its counterpart in our decoder based on its place in the alphabet ("H" is the eighth letter in the alphabet, which is "T" in our decoder). Double I's can be replaced with Y's. Using this we can translate the ciphers into the following:
 THE DRAGON IS BOUND WITH NOBLE SIGHS
 THE SERPENT IS BOUND WITH SHIFTING TONES
 MAGNUS IS BOUND IN METAL FLAMES
 NIRN IS BOUND IN SECRET KNOTS
 DO NOT LOOK TO THE MOONS
 OR THE PALEST REFLECTIONS
 SMALLER, COLDER, DEADER
 DO NOT LOOK TO THE TOWER
 OR THE DANCERS ON ITS ROOF
 WHO LACK RHYTHM
 DO NOT LOOK TO THE WHEEL
 OR THE SAILBOATS ON ITS VEIL
 SANS NAVIGATORS
 DO NOT LOOK TO THE GREY
 OR BE FROZEN BY POTENTIAL
 LOST IN MUSIC
 DO NOT ADORE THE JAILER
 OR ABHOR THE JAIL
 ONLY BY SUCH PRUNING
 MAY WE GROW TALL
 DO NOT LOOK TO THE PLENUM
 WHETHER IN ASSEMBLY OR IN EMPTINESS
 OR BE MAD WITH COLOR
 LOOK TO THE INVISIBLE
 AND THE MISSING FOUNDATION
 AND THE MYTHOPOEIC GAP
 RETURNING LOVE, HOWEVER FLAWED
 IS THE FIRST TREMBLING STEP
 OF THE PRISON BREAK
 LIFE REJOICES IN LIFE
 LIGHT REJOICES IN LIGHT
 REJECT FIRE AND BLOOD
 REJECT MER AND MONKEY
 REJOICE IN TRUTH
 REFLECT LIGHT
 EARN FREEDOM
 YEARN IMAGE
==References==
Category:Douglas Goodall's Texts
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