The Black Breviary: A Daily Devotion to the Self - Couverture souple

Allman, Dylan

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798165329548

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

A daily devotion to the self.

Satan is a Hebrew noun, and the noun means one who stands against. The tradition spent two thousand years promoting the holder into a prince and then into the proprietor of a pit. This book restores the post.

The Black Breviary is a year of devotions, one page for each of 365 days. Every day gives an engraved plate, a reading that goes through a faith's own scripture and history and says what the record shows, a charge, a rite to carry out, a question for your own journal, and a declaration to say in your own voice. The feasts keep their own dates and take the place of the numbered day, and the day they displace is held for you.

God, the Church, Duty, the Nation, Humanity and the Good each stand over you and ask for something, and each, asked what it gives back, answers with a larger claim. To keep the office is to stand in the road once a day in front of one of the claims that have walked beside you since you were small, and to ask by what right it goes on.

The rites are written against eight starting points: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Latter-day Saint, Jehovah's Witness, Jewish, Muslim and no faith. The main text prints the Christian or no-faith rite; every other tradition’s rite for each day is at the back, in The Other Rites. Every rite is to be done within the law and without harm to any person, child or animal. No belief in the supernatural is required.

The Roman devotio was struck once, on the worst day of a campaign, with the line already giving way. The one set out here is the opposite transaction, made in small pieces over a year, and what it takes back is a self, from those who held it, with their thumbprints still on it.

The complete text is free to read at the Internet Archive, and the book also runs as a free daily web app under the same name, with the pact, the public Record and the thirteen Orders.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798165329548
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 523
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible