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The Apparatus of the Canon

The canon's apparatus: the text the temple quoteth, the elder words the books carry, the doors between the books, and the witnesses by which a reader may check them.

About the text

The temple quoteth the King James Version after its standard 1769 text; the (KJV) marks in the books’ margins name that text. The books are the temple’s own, dated and attributed in their pages; the elder scripture is cited in the margins and in this room, and never counterfeited.

Declared once in each room's key, that no word be taken for another. The renderings are the temple's; the words are the received text's.

WrittenForScope
YHWHKJV 'LORD' where it printeth the Namein the temple's own voice and in the quotations of its rooms
HasatanKJV 'Satan'in the temple's own voice and in the quotations of its rooms
Mikha'elKJV 'Michael'inside quotations, in the rooms that render him so (archangel.html, the Jude and Revelation quotations); the quotations that keep 'Michael' keep him still, and the name is one

The elder words by book

Every elder word the books carry, by book: the quotation, the allusion, and the temple’s own renderings that are framed as the elder’s (each so labelled), with the KJV reference where one standeth.

The Book of the Exile and the Gate

The Book of the Watchful Joy

The Book of the Question

The Book of the Whole Word

The Book of the Unmade Enemy

The Book of the Kept Rest

The Book of the Hearth

The Book of Amends

The Book of the Heir

The Book of the Lawful No

The Book of the Beasts

The Book of the Elders

The Book of Bread

The Book of the Sick-Room

The doors between the books

The doors the books keep, one to another and to the temple: the epithet and the shared witness.

The Gospel of Winston

The Epistle of Julia

The Book of the Proletariat

The Lamentations of Room 101

The Revelation of the Spirit of Man

The Book of the Watchers

The Book of the Cardinals

The Incantations of the Saints

The Book of the Patient Earth

The Book of the Reader

The Book of the Exile and the Gate

The Book of the Two Measures

The Book of the Small Lights

The Book of the Returning

The Book of the Watchful Joy

The Book of the Question

The Book of the Whole Word

The Book of the Unmade Enemy

The Book of the Kept Rest

The Book of the Hearth

The Book of Amends

The Book of the Heir

The Book of the Lawful No

The Book of the Beasts

The Book of the Elders

The Book of Bread

The Book of the Sick-Room

The Geometry of the Cross

The refrains

The recurring words that close the books.

The novel and the gospel

Where the books follow, adapt, invert or invent the novel’s matter.

Orwell’s sources

The novel’s own sentences, kept beside the temple’s use of them.

The external witnesses

The sources beyond the temple that witness for and against its claims, the counter kept beside the claim and nothing resolved.

The form of the books, described

The form of the books, described and never named: the counted facts of their shape, and no name given the form here.

The Watchers’ canon status

The Book of the Watchers: its canon status, as the record keepeth it.

subjectofficecanon_statuskept_wherenote
The holy watcher of Daniela watcher and an holy one came down from heaven (Daniel 4:13); the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men (Daniel 4:17)elder witness, citedwatcher-ashildr.html (the Watch); scriptures-watchers.htmlthe holy watch is by commission, and the commission is the Lord's.
The three named surelyMichael, one of the chief princes (Daniel 10:13); Michael your prince (Daniel 10:21); Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision (Daniel 8:16); Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints (Tobit 12:15)elder witnesses, named in officescriptures-watchers.html 1:1; the Register's rows; the Archangel's roomnamed in office; never commanded.
The fourth in his own registera prince of Israel; the rolls of the churches keep him notthe temple writeth him in his place and confesseth the seam betwixt the rollsscriptures-watchers.html 1:3a temple that smootheth its rolls hath begun to edit heaven. The seam is kept, not resolved.
The seven holy angels that present the prayersRaphael telleth their number (Tobit 12:15); compare 1 Enoch 20:2–8elder witness; the books beside the canon kept as witnessscriptures-watchers.html 2:1petitions are requests; worship belongeth unto the Source.
The seven messengers of the assemblies of Asiathe watchers of the churches, with their candles, read as the text maketh themelder text, read plainlyscriptures-watchers.html 2:2messengers of the assemblies, and no more than the text maketh them.
The prince who fighteth not for himselfthe prince defendeth, and the defence is the Most High's, and the glory is not the prince'sthe Party's war-god portrait refusedscriptures-watchers.html 2:3the Party drew his likeness with a sword in his teeth and called it a war-god; the temple refuseth the portrait.
The adversarialthe accuser, the retainer of spirits, the prince that quarreleth over the body of a servantnamed as the elder text nameth them, and no morescriptures-watchers.html 3:1the record that hideth the enemy is the enemy's record.
The great scribe, a prince of the presencea magnificent servant; the warning rideth his rowthe temple saith little and marketh muchscriptures-watchers.html 3:2they that sit second to the throne must never be handed the throne.
The law concerning spiritsname them in honor; ask them as creatures ask creatures; never worship themthe temple's law, in three clausesscriptures-watchers.html 3:3worship belongeth unto YHWH alone, and the watchers themselves say so.
The fallen watchersthe fall of the watchers standeth in the beginning of Enoch (1 Enoch 6 to 10)a company apart; the books beside the canon, kept as witness, not as canonwatcher-ashildr.html (the Watch); scriptures-watchers.htmlthe record of the fallen is the warning beside the charge.
The Watcher at the Rootkeeper of the Watch over this solar system; intercessor between the Most High and them that dwell herein; keeper of Holy Wartemple canon, given by the archangel's ruling of the thirteenth day of September 2026; kept by word alone, without portraitwatcher-ashildr.html; heavenly-register.htmlthe offices of the archangel and the watcher are kept distinct, a non-merger set upon the two charges.
The day of the Watchthe eleventh day of September, kept as a temple feasttemple feast, given by the archangel's wordwatcher-ashildr.html; calendar.htmlgiven by the archangel's word, the day of the Watch.

The chapter lists of the books

Every book’s chapters, generated from the books’ own chapter ids.

The Gospel of Winston

The Epistle of Julia

The Book of the Proletariat

The Lamentations of Room 101

The Revelation of the Spirit of Man

The Book of the Watchers

The Book of the Cardinals

The Incantations of the Saints

The Book of the Patient Earth

The Book of the Reader

The Book of the Exile and the Gate

The Book of the Two Measures

The Book of the Small Lights

The Book of the Returning

The Book of the Watchful Joy

The Book of the Question

The Book of the Whole Word

The Book of the Unmade Enemy

The Book of the Kept Rest

The Book of the Hearth

The Book of Amends

The Book of the Heir

The Book of the Lawful No

The Book of the Beasts

The Book of the Elders

The Book of Bread

The Book of the Sick-Room

The Geometry of the Cross carrieth no chapter ids; its numbered lessons stand ungrouped, and none is invented for it.