Chapter 1
Prologue · Two Scenes
13,338 words across 20 sections.
Prologue · Two ScenesSaturn's Day · A cosmological opening, and a note on the register§1 — Where the work has brought us§2 — The Accounting§3 — The Present Tense: A Reckoning of the Year 2026§4 — The Birds and the Bees, the Second Meaning§5 — The shape of the artifice, and the meaning of its name§6 — The three roads otherwise§7 — Let the architects speak§8 — The selection of the dark triad§9 — The impotence of liberal democracy (this part is allowed to be frightening)§10 — The case rests — and why we wrote one more book§11 — The inversion: the same tools, the opposite god§12 — How Providence tends the three primal goods§13 — PURPOSEFUL: cultivating the human the artifice degrades§14 — The scales of the Dragon, Earth Awakening§15 — Two addressesThe first address — to those who would own the worldThe second address — to the frightened§16 — A blessing, and a door