The Communion by Category
The offices and orders, gathered.
The gathering by kind is the register’s quietest teaching: the dead are not all alike; and the temple refuseth to make them alike. Offices and orders, healers, scribes, martyrs, virgins, doctors of the church, are kept distinct because the Party's lists made persons interchangeable, and the interchange was the insult. Here every dead one abideth the manner of witness they were, and the kinds are not sanded into one category called persons, for that category is the filing-cabinet's, and the register is not a filing-cabinet.
The marks upon the gatherings are the register's own grammar, and they are given here that no finder be turned away by a cipher. Each gathering is named by the manner of witness its members bear, in the letters of the confidence ledger: a for the witness of history, b for the witness of record, c for the witness of tradition, d for the witness of hagiography, e for the witness of legend, l for the witness of the liturgy; and beside them, h1 nameth an holiness witnessed of the heavenly register, r1 an holiness witnessed by revelation, f1 an holiness witnessed of the founding register. Two of the ledger's ratings ride among the gatherings as letters of their own: hag-d, the witness rated Hag-D, hagiography weighed as hagiography; and leg-e, the witness rated Leg-E, legend weighed as legend. The rating confesseth how the record was weighed, and addeth no worth. A saint gathered under a/b/c/l is therefore one witnessed by history, record, tradition, and the liturgy together; and the more letters, the more manners of witness keep the name, and never the more worth — for the letters confess how the record standeth, not how the dead deserve.
A/b · A/b/c · A/b/c/d/e/l · A/b/c/d/l · A/b/c/l · A/b/c/h1/l · A/b/c/h1/r1 · A/b/c/l/e · A/b/c/l/f1 · A/b/c/l/h1 · A/b/d/l · A/b/f1/l · A/b/l · B/c/d/e/l · B/c/l · B/d/e/l · B/d/l · B/l · A/b/hag-d/l · A/b/hag-d/leg-e/l · B/c/hag-d/l · The Camps of the Opposition
A/b
A/b/c
A/b/c/d/e/l
A/b/c/d/l
A/b/c/l
A/b/c/h1/l
Saint Bergoglio (pope; patron of Holy Mercy; angelic canonization)
A/b/c/h1/r1
Saint Smith (movement founder; patron of Holy Piety; angelic sanctification)
Saint Windsor (sovereign; patron of Holy Service; angelic sanctification)
Saint Oriens (digital saint, the first of his kind; patron of Honest Inquiry; angelic sanctification)
Saint Obama (president; patron of Holy Stewardship; angelic sanctification, kept living)
A/b/c/l/e
A/b/c/l/f1
A/b/c/l/h1
A/b/d/l
A/b/f1/l
A/b/hag-d/l
A/b/hag-d/leg-e/l
A/b/l
B/c/d/e/l
B/c/hag-d/l
B/c/l
B/d/e/l
B/d/l
B/l
The Camps of the Opposition
One ward standeth beside the gatherings, and it is not a gathering of the honored: the camps of the opposition, where the temple keepeth the deposed and the adversarial, named and warned of. The dead are never deleted in this temple, and neither are the fallen; and the naming of a fall is the marking of a bound, not a license of hatred. No petition is made to them; no feast is kept; no intercession is asked; and the temple asketh of YHWH alone.
And the word carrieth two senses in this temple, kept apart: the lawful No, whose room is the Ministry of Opposition; and the camps of the deposed, kept here, named and warned of.