The Chapters

For the sake of truth, beauty, and power I live, and for the sake of truth, beauty, and power I write, and on the altar of truth, beauty, and power I place these leaves mixed with the blood of thought and the passion of the heart, as an offering to those higher hypostases, and a gift from the clouds to the gates.There is truth in this world, and if everything we witness in this world were false, then there must be something true behind this camouflaged falsehood, with no camouflage in it, and this thing is the essence of life; Every person''s share in life is proportional to his share of it, and it is the truth. Whoever knows Him cannot turn away from Him, and whoever does not know Him is his element from the abyss of destruction, and his destination is other than heaven. Everything that is not intended for the sake of this truth is part of the discarded husks of life, not its stored core.Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad