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           When the Sisters heard this, they both confronted Void and pleaded 
       that he not forget them, his First Born.  And so Void decreed thus:
       
           That this brother, having no form, was to reside with Aneris in 
       Non-Being and then to leave her and, so that he might play with order 
       and disorder, reside with Eris in Being.  But Eris became filled with 
       sorrow when She heard this and then began to weep.
       
           "Why are you despondent?" demanded Void.  "Your new brother will 
       have his share with you."  "But Father, Aneris and I have been 
       arguing, and she will take him from me when she discovers him, and 
       cause him to return to Non-Being."  "I see," replied Void.  "Then I 
       decree the following:
       
           "When your brother leaves the residence of Being, he shall not 
       reside again in Non-Being, but shall return to Me, Void, from whence 
       he came.  You girls may bicker as you wish, but My son is your Brother 
       and We are all of Myself."
       
       
       And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is 
       that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder 
       them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from 
       existence and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a 
       tired child home from a very wild circus.
                                                                      \   /
       "Everything is true -- Everything is permissible!"           ---------
                                        -- Hassan i Sabbah            /   \