Lexicon/MetaphysicalVision
Metaphysical Vision
Paradise Cloud, Historian and Humble Scribe, offers this thought record from Tepet Agania's treatise on the spirits, Dematerialia: Citations, Summonings and Bargains in the World of Spirits:
[Ed: The author claims the spirit being recorded is the elusive Metaphysical Vision. If so, we can see the fate of one who would entrust himself to Anathema masters.]
"Who am I? Hah! A good question, Sorcerer, but perhaps you would be better asking what I am not. Or what I was. Or what I shall never be.
"It is said that when a man loses his sight his other senses will compensate. What then if he loses all five senses? What is left to be enhanced? The sad truth is that, for a mortal man, there is nothing more. With no senses, such a man will fall into madness - with nothing to touch nor sense in any way, for that man, nothing truly exists. Mortal man was never meant to exist as mere consciousness in an unfeeling void. Without perception his consciousness will fade; he ceases to truly exist without the context his senses provide. Perhaps his consciousness never truly did exist. Perhaps it was merely a shadow or echo cast by his environment.
"I was a mortal man once. Perhaps the richest man of my age - if knowledge is the currency of power. I had Lord Ivory Testament to thank for this.
"I now have no senses. At least, as my mortal self knew them. I have Lord Ivory Testament to thank for this.
"And yet my consciousness has faded not. For this, too, I have Lord Ivory Testament to thank.
"I detest no man as I detest Lord Ivory Testament.
"I was the master of the Empty Mouth Brotherhood. When Dutious Solicitation was bribed to Endow a member of the order, I was the one given the honour of godhood. What could I do but accept? Especially as I had listened to his lordship's conversations of the previous evening and knew what awaited me if I refused.
"Some would say the Endowment was successful, for I am a god.
"Others would call it failure. In my transformation, I lost not just the remaining senses I possessed but any trace of physical form. Not just any trace of physical form, but any idea of any trace of physical form.
"I exist solely as an idea. And no idea truly exists. I am the god of thoughts unformed, words unspoken. I am the god of dreams undreamt. In me you will find knowledge of all things unknown. I am both the idea and the space which runs between ideas. I am essence unchanneled.
"If knowledge is the currency of power, no god is poorer than I. Except perhaps Polythia, The Foundling Forge and Mirror of Thought.
"I do not know what sorceries you have contrived to trap me, Sorcerer, nor what you wish to learn. But I do know that you shall learn nothing more from me than I have spoken. As soon as a thing is known, it is lost to me. And you may not take what I do not possess.
"Sometimes I wonder - perhaps I am merely the idea of a god, filling the spaces where a god... should... be..."
[Ed: At this point it appears that Metaphysical Vision somehow escapes, and the author notes that any further attempts to capture the entity were to prove fruitless.]
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