The Second Tenet

"A Door to the Shadow of the Self"
Master of the Black Pen, 5 Dec. 2024, rev. 2025

The Second Door derives from the Second Rift of the narrative.

II.
The Second Door
There is a Door to the
Shadow of the Self

In the Second Rift, Iblis is on account of rupture with the divine, is cursed and exiled, earns infamy in his name, and tasked to live life by facing death.

The umbra of the self is all that is kept hidden in the heart, secret from the mind, wrung out from the pains of duty, and echoed in agony of fealty or fidelity.

The signature written in the umbra of the self is Iblis within Iblis.

The Pathway by Three Doors from Seven Keys

Refer to thematic and topical boxes on right sidebar. The "Black Snake," by Mark Catesby.