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Sermon on a Mount

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The words broke through the mob’s pandemonium like when in the midst of the thrashing storm a sudden calm is ordered. All at once, man and beast, nature herself, quieted their doings and looked upon the condemned. Sitting upon an ass, arms bound to the saddle, he was led by a guard to the gallows. He had been muffled, a rag stuffed down his throat, but it now hung full of bile by whatever rough cord had been tied around his mouth to hold the rag in. The cord’s knot had held, but instead of fastening his mouth shut, now formed a strange necklace.

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By The Sword
Part   1: How it Began
Part   2: Questions
Part   3: The Blackness of the Sea
Part   4: Locks
Part   5: Out of Time
Part   6: Ariesland
Part   7: Shadow of the Sisyphus
Part   8: Swords
Part   9: The Eagle and the Lamb
Part 10: Confession
Part 11: Compiler’s Note
Part 12: Sermon on a Mount