Claude Monet Zaandam

, but which are not the real truth. The real truth must sometimes be protected by a labyrinth of lies."
He turned to Brutha. "Do you understand me?"
"No, Lord Vorbis."
"I mean, that which appears to our senses is not the fundamental truth. Things that are seen and heard and done by the , picking every word with the care an inquisitor might give to his patient in the depths of the Citadel, "in the trivial sense, Brother Murduck died, did he not, in Omnia, because he had not died in Ephebe, had been merely mocked, but it was feared that others in the Church might not understand the, the deeper truth, and thus it was put about that the Ephebians had killed him in, in the trivial sense, thus giving you, and those who saw the truth offlesh are mere shadows of a deeper reality. This is what you must understand as you progress in the Church.""But at the moment, lord, I know only the trivial truth, the truth available on the outside," said Brutha. He felt as though he was at the edge of a pit."That is how we all begin," said Vorbis kindly."So did the Ephebians kill Brother Murduck?" Brutha persisted. Now he was inching out over the darkness."I am telling you that in the deepest sense of the truth they did. By their failure to embrace his words, by their intransigence, they surely killed him.""But in the trivial sense of the truth," said Brutha the evil of Ephebe, due cause to launch a-a just retaliation."