"The Seven Precepts"
The Nameless
Winter 2021, Summer 2025
The Seven Precepts are derived from the seven principles discussed in Ch. 28 of the Tafseer-e-Siddiqui and based on choices made by Iblis in the narrative.
I.
The First Precept:
Separation as Provenance
Separation as Provenance
In the First Rift, the divinity issues an order to the entire host to give to humanity its proper fidelity and fealty, homage, or worship. The host obeys, with the exception of Iblis, who refuses to offer obeisance or prostration to mankind.
In discrimination is unveiled the disparity of ensuing segregation.
The First Precept spurns the identity and morality of unalike stratums.
In discrimination is unveiled the disparity of ensuing segregation.
The First Precept spurns the identity and morality of unalike stratums.
II.
The Second Precept:
Stringency as Plenitude
In the Second Rift, Iblis is cursed and exiled for refusing the command of divinity to the host to offer obeisance or to undertake prostration before humanity.
Estranged from a polity, time is abetted and death is confronted.
The Second Precept separates will from command, defies public acclaim, sanctions intuitive wisdom, and insists on a life that is mindful of exile and death.
Estranged from a polity, time is abetted and death is confronted.
The Second Precept separates will from command, defies public acclaim, sanctions intuitive wisdom, and insists on a life that is mindful of exile and death.
The Third Precept:
Seedfulness across Worlds
In the Third Rift, Iblis carries forward his antipathy toward the elevation of mankind and embarks on a struggle over and across all times and places.
It is struggle first internal then external against unsolicited succession.
The Third Precept indicts mandates that disrupt primeval hierarchies, the soil of its internal struggle, whose seeds are scattered over external worlds.
The Third Precept indicts mandates that disrupt primeval hierarchies, the soil of its internal struggle, whose seeds are scattered over external worlds.
IV.
The Fourth Precept:
Strictness over the Terrene
The Fourth Precept:
Strictness over the Terrene
In all Rifts of the narrative, Iblis gives priority to structure before function and places greater focus on originate matter than status, award, or appointments.
In recalling this, we strive to remain grounded where we place ourselves.
In recalling this, we strive to remain grounded where we place ourselves.
The Fourth Precept is the refusal to disregard form and material origins.
V.
The Fifth Precept:
Sagacious over the Proximal
The Fifth Precept:
Sagacious over the Proximal
In all Rifts of the narrative, Iblis is vigilant toward members of hostile stratums.
If close to what is distant, we learn to avoid sharing secrets or confiding in others.
The Fifth Precept is the capacity to prepare for and undertake predation.
If close to what is distant, we learn to avoid sharing secrets or confiding in others.
The Fifth Precept is the capacity to prepare for and undertake predation.
VI.
The Sixth Precept:
The Sixth Precept:
Sinewiness in its Offering
If a state takes from Iblis a mantle of his policies, we find intensity of purveyance, a mouth that leads to a belly, and congeniality to time as an ally.
The Sixth Precept is malleability in personal, familial, and national affairs.
VII.
The Seventh Precept:
Severance from the Placeless
In a misapplied humanism your caste is drowned, buried, or dispersed.
In a misguided globalism every place eventually looks like every other.
The Seventh Precept is calm denial of globalism and humanism.
