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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rath Lorien" data-source="post: 4376587" data-attributes="member: 15812">"I hear what you are saying, Bertrand.  I agree that the Church will handle this case with great seriousness and great care.  In order to help ensure that we ourselves are not corrupted by the book and to minimize the risk to society we will be scrutinized and possibly confined until the correct disposition is reached.  The Church will take our actions here seriously just as we should take our actions seriously.  In this case we hold a great deal of responsibility in our hands and we will rightly be judged on how we handle that responsibility.""We would do well to consider carefully the doctrines and disciplines of the Church for they will guide us in the darkness.  Unfortunately we are not in a position to consult with the Magesterium and so we must make our decisions the best way we can.  I have prayerfully considered the decisions we are making.  I am not infallible and so I may be making a mistake, but I believe we have been acting in the best interests of the Light, the peoples of the world, and of the Church.""By returning the book to the Church we will put the book and ourselves under the jurisdiction of the Church.  I do not see this as a negative, but a positive.  It is exactly why I want to return to the Church with the book.  I am aware that taking the book into Church lands will bring evil into those lands.  But to not bring the book to the Church is to deprive ourselves of the wisdom and strength of the Church.  To willfully deprive ourselves of this wisdom and strength without sufficient reason would surely be inappropriate.  Though we are faithful and righteous men, the Church is guided by the Light to a greater degree than we and whereas we can choose wrongly, the Light will not allow the Church to fail."</blockquote>

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