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Interesting bits from the "Darkness in the Blood" novel by Guy Haley aka the third Dante novel. 

This isn't a summary. I don't do those. This is just me recounting the things that caught my interest in the novel. Here we go! 

-In the intro of the novel, Guy Haley says that GW had it be all hush hush over whether the Primaris Angels can fall into the Black Rage or not. The answer they can but since there are no Black Company Primaris models yet, GW decided to make it vague for the time being. 

-New Blood Angel supplement is coming soon featuring the Blood Primaris connection to the Black Rage. The novel acts as a tie in to it. Guy Haley is happy that his work is influencing the studio material. It’s part of the efforts to make novels and studio stuff be more in line with each other in terms of canon. 

-Novel takes place months after the DoB 

-The Warp was being disturbed to an extreme by the Great Rift. Vortexes of raw emotion are gathering so much energy from the chaos around them that they threatened to develop sentience but ultimately, they fail and collapse into nothing. Stillborn gods dying in the wound of the Warp. 

-Dante is described the greatest hearted of all the marine heroes. But a few lines later, we see him submerged in the “stolen blood of innocents” in his healing coven so whatever, Guy Haley/GW. 

-Warp travel in the Dark Imperium era is danger af. Each moment in the Warp courts disaster. Ships in the Dark Imperium have to do short hops, having nothing to guide them. Not so for the Blood Angel fleet. The Blood Angel fleet follow the spirit of Mephiston in the Warp that's being projected from the Bloodcaller. Mephiston is following Sanguinor who is guiding the Blood Angels through the Warp. This allows the Blood Angels to do long Warp jumps unlike the rest of the imperium north. 

-Warp walking is extremely dangerous. It's dangerous for the body, mind, and soul. Only misguided and foolish sorcerers do it and not without dire consequences. Yet Mephiston does this with ease such is his power. The Warp holds no fear for him. However, each time he Warp walks, he returns to the mortal realm more power than before. A subject of concern to him. What is he becoming? 

-Navigating the Warp in the Dark Imperium is extremely dangerous for Navgators. Where once navigator lives were measured in centuries, now they are measured in voyages. All navigating techniques are useless in the stormy darkness of the north. Previously, one navigator sufficed to guide a ship, now a whole team is needed. During the voyage, a navigator succumbs to the terror and madness. Rather than allow his madness to spread of the Navigator team, the lead navigator activates a kill switch that kills the maddened navigator. The soul of that navigator departs into the Warp where it was swiftly devoured, the lead navigator witnessed it all. 

- Sanguinor as he is guiding the Blood Angel fleet is engaged in fierce battle with a powerful entity in the shape of a dark angel. The crossing of their swords sends shockwaves into the Warp. 

-Sex slaves are apparently a thing in the Imperium. 

-Dante doesn't like his men looking at his naked face. He doesn't want them to see the worn-out tired features of his aged face. He is more comfortable behind the face of his Primarch 

-Kyriss the Perverse makes an appearance in this book. It's manner of entry into reality is gorey af. It rips its way out of a hundreds of feets high living pillar of flesh made from thousands of helpless ship crewmen. 

-Kyriss offers the Dante and Mephiston the same offer given to their Primarch. He reveals that Slaannsh like Khorne covets the Angel's bloodline. They are a bloodline of temptations and artistic excess the perfect champions of Slaanesh. The offer is if Mephiston goes with Kyriss to the Warp to become Slaanesh's champion, then Kyriss would extinguish the Black Rage. When the time comes, the Blood Angels will rule alongside Slaanesh as lords of their own kingdoms. Naturally, this generous offer is refused and battle is joined. 

-After a very intense fight, the Blood Angels managed to kick Kyriss back into the Warp. During the fighting, A black angel manifested behind Mephiston matching his movement and attacking in tandem with him like some kind of JoJo stand. When the fight is over, Mephiston is overwhelmed by his power and gets KO'ed 

-It's revealed that somehow during his ordeal on Armageddon, Mephiston’s geneseed was somehow activated. Rewriting his genes and changing him into something. Body and soul, Mephiston is transforming. 

-Daemons are all over the place. Previously chapters were mind wiped and entire worlds were extermintus'ed for seeing a fraction of the mess that's happening galaxy wide. Secrecy about daemons is becoming very difficult to outright impossible. 

-Guess who is back? The Hivemind. It's not finished with the Blood Angels. While in the Warp, the Hivemind directs its attention to the Blood Angel fleet. So powerful is its presence that it stills the Warp and turn it as calm as a moonlet pond. But the Hivemind is still diminished and healing from the Great Rift shockwave so all it can do is stare. A Bonus thing is that we have confirmation that the Hivemind is a Warp entity. Something akin to an alien Warp god. 

-Qvo-87 makes an appearance in this book. He offers Dante the Rubicon Primaris procedure. It has a 60% success rate for normal marines but in genetically divergent chapters like the Blood Angels the success rate is lower. 

-Principia is Cawl's term for the old version of marines 

-Dante has no idea what Thunder Warriors are 

-Legion era marines are functionally immortal. They did not/do not age like 40K era marines. 

-Normally, Tyranids would leave things they are not interested in alone. Not so with Baal. The Hivemind directed its Tyranids to despoil and ruin the Blood Angel monuments and art in an act of pure spite. It tried to deface and despoil all what the Blood Angels held dear. 

-The Blood Angels Librarius is powered by a boon from the Emperor. A star plucked from space and crushed by the Emperor's will. It serves a reactor of the Librarius and it wards. In DoB, the proved matched to the Hivemind itself since no Tyranids managed to breach the wards 

-Beneath Baal there are mysterious stone tunnels. The material that comprise the tunnels are not confined in space-time. The only thing known about these tunnels is that they weren't built by humans. 

-Dante wanted to go through the Primaris procedure but the normal marines strongly objected not wanting to risk losing him. The Primaris were divided on the issue. It was decided that Mephiston is going get it instead. The might of a Primaris body might be able to contain his growing psychic powers at least for a time. In the novel, Dante continues to be tempted by the Primaris transformation. His body is aging, his wounds are not healing completely. Eventually, his body will give out. The Primaris strength could be the answer for his woes but the risks are too great at the moment. He is needed. However, he is determined to undergo it in a future date. Primaris Dante get HYPE! 

-In the spiritual odyssey that Mephiston goes through during the procedure a few interesting things are revealed : 

Within the Warp, the golden angel of light fights the angel of darkness and shadow. The golden angel represents the nobility of Sanguinius’ bloodline. Each time one of his sons creates a work of art or give his life to protect the innocent the golden angel grows stronger. On the other hand, each time one the sons of the blood succumb to the Black Rage and slays his brothers, the angel of darkness grows stronger. It's revealed that these angels have been fighting for an eternity. Long before the Primarch was born, long before mankind settled the Baal system. The xenos civilizations that lived on Baal were influenced by them and so did the humans that settled Baal after them. After mankind passes from the galaxy and another race takes its place on Baal, they too will be influenced by the angelic struggle but that's assuming that Chaos won't win and reduce all existence into its eternal playground. 

The angel of darkness is winning, slowly overpowering the golden angel. The reason for this is that the children of the blood are all doomed to be consumed by the Black Rage. The only agency they have in this is whether they will end their service as monsters or heroes. 

What's also revealed in the Warp is that the Emperor is stirring, the minds of men are opening to the Warp, and the Black Rage is closing its grip tighter than before thanks to the Great Rift. 

The Golden Angel is Sanguinor. He was once a mortal marine but into him was poured all the nobility and heroism of the sons of blood across the ages. The angel of Darkness is no one (not yet). It is rage set loose with no limit. Sanguinor can no longer contain it. So, it needs an anchor, an avatar in the material realm to vent some of its rage in order to balance the struggle for a time. Mephiston must be this avatar. He must take the burden in order to save his chapter but they will not know his burden. They will grow to hate him more than they already do but they won't know why. 

Because of the Warp ignores time. The Angel of Darkness exists, have always existed and will forever exist. It is Mephiston since he will transform into it one day, and yet it's not him. I am getting headache from this. Anyways, because of the connection between the Angel of Darkness and Mephiston, he will become its avatar no matter what. If he refuses, he will die and his soul will be cast into the Warp to meet its final fate however his body will be possessed by the Angel of Darkness turning it into a dark version of Sanguinor that will destroy all the children of the Blood. If he accepts, he will be more of an outcast within his chapter and one day he will become the crystallization of all that's monstrous in the bloodline. 

All of this is explained by a figure that appears as bloody masked angel. The Angel in the end removes his mask to reveal that he is Sanguinius. Sanguinius tells Mephiston that Abaddon's desperate gambit unleashed forces he cannot hope to control. Things that were not possible before are now possible. He says that the Warp is not evil. It is corrupted but it contains everything including evil as well as good. 

Suddenly the angels stop fighting and they stand besides Sanguinius looking down on Mehpiston. Mephiston's soul is dragged back into to the waking world but before he fades, he apologies to his Primarch. Sanguinius smiles sorrowfully and tells him that he isn't Sanguinius. Sanguinius is dead. 

-When Mephiston's soul returns to his body an outburst of psychic energy and he is lifted into air in vortex of material and psychic energy. Dark wings shoot from his form and some of the librarians fall dead. Everyone shits their pants. Mephiston managed to contain his power and he withdraws it back in. He halted the Black Rage flaring in his fellow Angels. 

-When an uneasy peace descended on the chamber, Astrorath demanded that Mephiston be killed before it's too late. Dante quieted him down and asked Mephiston who he was. He said he isn't Calistarius nor Mephiston but something else. Mephiston’s Librarian friend confirms that he is Mephiston yet isn't. This is okay with Dante and he spares the Lord of Death. 

-Dante and Mehpston discuss their sightings of their Primarch. They could not confirm it was him. It might be a Warp illusion or it's possible that it's a part of Primarch's soul that lingered in the Warp. Mehipston explains that powerful psychic souls can survive in the Warp for quite a while and the Blood Angel Primarch was one of the most psychic of the Emperor's sons 

It was a fun read. Qvo was a treasure. I can't wait for its follow up in the Psychic Awakening series

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The Crowd-“Elitist” Society



Each of us at least once has asked himself: Who am I? Where am I going? What do I want? What am I living for?

Being unable to find the answer ourselves we ask other people for help through direct communication, books, movies, pictures and music. We understand that we are born not by chance, that there are personal and public interests, that one or another type of social life arrangement can either support or hamper the development of our creative powers. At last we come to a question: Which society are we born in and which society are we going to build?

We can see that under the current social order that exists in all countries of the world the majority of the population is not living, but surviving constant adversity, not understanding the reasons for this, whereas the “elitist” minority is actually growing fussy, while the global civilization has come to a biospheric and ecological dead end. This situation allows to say that the existing “world order” is not a natural norm.

“The world is a grand chess board” – says Zbigniew Brzezinski (Zbignev Bjezinski) meaning by this a constant conflict as a norm for societal life.

But is it really so?

To answer the question let’s see which levels exist in the current social order.

As Belinsky said:

“A crowd is a gathering of people who live by tradition and reason based on authority”

Therefore, a crowd is a group of individuals living dishonestly.

Level One. A crowd of “little people” – pawns – who think that nothing depends on them, their destiny is just to be a grass on the battle field.

In this system there is only one rule of movement on the board for all the pawns prescribed by a “holy Scripture” and based on support of the “elite” and authority of the leader. However, it’s not clear for the common layman what the best way is for him to accomplish his benevolent intentions and cherished dreams, because he does not possess adequate knowledge about social governanceand has just a hazy notion of what is good and what is evil. And the information provided by various educational systems contains just fragmentary knowledge in a restricted professional area sufficient maybe for a job of a cashier in a supermarket.

Level Two. This is the so-called “elite” – also a dishonest group of individuals controlling the behaviour of the crowd of pawns, defending its own utterly clannish interests. This social stratum has the same degree of understanding of social governance as the pawns do, but due to the mafia-type clan system it has more opportunities to satisfy its claims of would-be superiority and the right to parasitize. Each “elite” piece also has its own rule of movement on the chessboard prescribed by a holy Scripture and a blind belief in the power of chief’s authority. However, the knowledge the “elite” possess is also fragmentary, but from more different spheres of knowledge and more detailed, sufficient for them to exploit the crowd. By its moral nature the so-called “elite” is the same as a crowd, but a more informed one.

To maintain the development of the system it must be maintained in a constant confrontation with a similar system, appointed to the role of enemy by global game rules – which is reflected in the mind of the crowd as the “struggle of opposites” according to the “divide and conquer” principle. This is a sort of “field training exercise” to keep the system fully armed in case an alternative system of social governance appears. In the objective reality the Universe itself does not generate any struggle of opposites; this struggle only appears with the malicious intent of governing officials and executives.

This is where the role of the global players controlling the system within their global political game manifests itself. They have got a piercing intelligence to exercise well-learnt combinations. The global players justify their goals and means of achievement with corporate ethics which says: “The Corporation comes first”. They have fragmentary knowledge though more extended and detailed in the sphere of economics, governance and history, which makes them more erudite and enables them to forecast and control processes.

There may be more than two players. Different regional civilizations and supranational corporations have different ideals and goals, many of which are imposed from outside. It’s like multilateral chess where each player would be playing his own game.

This is all that most people are able to see.

But let us ask ourselves: where are the authors of the rules in this picture of the world, who devise and implement these games into the society, prescribing the scenario of existence for each piece, including the players, designed specially for each of them? Who is the possessor of the integral knowledge of social governance about the entire system in a slave-owning social order?

This level is controlled by a global clan of hierophants, otherwise called “a global predictor”, which implements the highest level of intrasocial power– the conceptual power – into life,  playing the role of God.

A conception is an idea of a certain social order.

Conceptual power is the power of people capable of:

·  Identification of problems and goal-setting related to them;

·  Devising of methods (conceptions) for achievement of the goals set;

·  Implementation of the conceptions into the process of social life.

Similarly, “conceptual power” refers to the power over a certain community (society) of ideas that express the goals of the social life, the means and the ways of their achievement.

The symbol of the global predictor is depicted on a one dollar banknote. It’s the eye of the Omniscence above the pyramid. The basis of it’s power is an artificially created monopoly for the knowledge of social governance. “Knowledge is power” - this way of thinking is used by the global clan of hierophants. The goal of the global predictor: to prevent the people from becoming Humans - the vicegerents of God on Earth.

These global managers might seem to be almighty, but they are not. The scenario they are trying to implement is not supported from on Above and that is why it is not stable. Consequently they have to devise more and more new forms of implementing slavery.

The conception of the slave-owning system is stated in the most widespread book on Earth – the Holy Bible. The Bible divides the dishonest crowd into two camps: the shepherd and the sheep.

It exhorts the sheep:

“Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord”. (Bible, Colossians 3:22)

The culture which is based on the Biblical morality teaches the honest people, who want to live fairly, the following ethics: Only creative means are acceptable for achievement of goals, however the goals imposed are based on the string-pullers’ interests.

The shepherds of the crowd are habituated to the ethics: the ends justify the means. Hence, the only thing to do is just to maintain the Biblical ideals in the well-intending crowd using the carrot-and-stick approach.

“Thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.”. (Bible, Deuteronomy 15:6).

That is why we see a stable system where the well-meaning men of the crowd are toil for the shameless crooks. The well-meaning man of the crowd always justifies himself by saying: “Everyone lives like that”; and the dishonest “elite” has only one excuse which says: “Nothing personal, just business!”

Thus, the Crowd-“Elitist” Society is a hierarchic and pyramidical social order in which the upper classes do not recognize the human dignity of the lower classes. The culture generated by such society arrangement hampers the people to develop their creative potential. Consequently most of the people are factitiously relegated to the status of a crowd.

Main Features of the Crowd-“Elitist” System

- existence of a leader – the authority;

- existence of a reputable or Holy Scripture;

- existence of an initiation system;

- existence of a crowd which follows the leader and/or the Scripture thoughtlessly;

- existence of the so-called I-centrist ethics in all the people –atheism.

To prevent people from thinking about the possibility of building a fair society on Earth, the special term “Utopia” had been invented, with the meaning of something unreal and delusive, which actually was an obstacle for the mind making people think that it was just tales and fables created by fantasy authors. And to prevent people from considering the global social governancephenomenon, such terms as the “Conspiracy” and the “Conspiracy Theory” were implemented designed for deriding of those who start contemplating the subject.

Thus, the following cultural standards were gently instilled, convincing each individual of hopelessness of existence from the very childhood:

“It’s impossible to change fate”, “Life is full of afflictions – Lord endured suffering and commanded us to be patient”, “Enjoy life to the full”, “Life is but a span”, “After us, the deluge”.

The latter assertion is true since many people start wishing to flood this “Highly cultured” hell, and consequently at the entrance to adulthood the society gets a slave of passions and addictions, instilled by the culture, a slave to pleasures, who more and more seldom thinks of the means by which he satisfies his animal desires.

In the Crowd-“Elitist” Society the meaning of life is pleasure: “If there is a pleasure – there is life, no pleasure – no life”. This philosophy in the society with the crowd-“elitist” morality is implanted by the vicious “elite”, because it is the “elite” who is the trendsetter for the crowd. But the “elite” itself cannot do anything other than wasting life and parasitizing on the working class.

The problem of most authority figures is that this algorithmic is carried out by them unconsciously and fully automatically even if they proclaim alternative ethics principles different from the crowd-“elitist” ones. But implementation of this algorithmic is possible if the morality of the authority allows him to carry out these algorithms.

The authority shows how to treat the new information and the crowd, not wishing to think for itself, is acting based on the principle: “The giraffe is tall – He knows best!”

But the leader of the crowd himself in circumvention of consciousness depends on the higher levels of governance, which have goals that differ from his own, and this dependence is characterized by the principle: “Within one’s comprehension each one works for oneself, and within one’s incomprehension – for the one who comprehends more”.

The crowd-“elitist” culture is organized so that there are typical models of behaviour in various situations. The functional role and the place a person, can play and occupy within any association of people is accordingly specified beforehand in certain algorithms. These algorithms run through all the elements of culture: mass media, movies, theatre, books, traditions, and so forth. If a man diverges from the rules, ideas and actions established by the current culture, this is condemned by the crowd no matter if the man acts and thinks according to conscience or not.

Is there any alternative to the crowd-“elitist” society arrangement?

The escape from the crowd-“elitist” inferno, as famous Russian thinker Ivan Efremov wrote, , wrote, lies in the sense of proportion first of all, and not in blind faith. But this phrase of the writer should be continued with the following: to escape from the inferno the sense of proportion should be based on ethics which goes beyond the society, ethics based on which all the universe is functioning and developing. That is why a Man is gifted with Conscience. Listening to it a man is looking for answers about the goals of the mission of his soul on Earth and the means to achieve the goals in a direct dialogue with the Hierarchically Highest All-Enclosing Governance, and gets freedom as Gifted by God’s Guidance of Conscience. In this case there is no hierarchy in the society, because each man on Earth has his own unique mission and only he is the one who can accomplish it best.

Earth civilization still remembers the men who serve as an example of living in such ethics and who proclaimed the alternative to the crowd-“elitist” society. 2000 years ago Jesus Christ announced the possibility to build a society of fair life arrangement for all the mankind:

 “Since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it”.

(Holy Bible, Gospel of Luke 16:16)

At present, as before, each one has an opportunity to realize what is fairness and unity by direct dialogue with the Creator without any mediators!

A principle of unifying people has existed in Russia since olden times, and is called “sobornost”. Based on this principle neither personal hierarchy nor social tension takes place. Before the Christianization of Russia the social leadershad quite a different attitude toward their homagers rather than now. The clannish-and-corporative isolation from the rest of society was not appropriate for them at that time. When the moral-and-ethical standards were equal for everyone, there was no personal hierarchy, though specialization of labor in the community was inevitable. That is why during some periods professional governing officials – a prince or a hierophant – could serve as a simple oarsman in a boat implicitly obeying a helmsman, while under other circumstances this helmsman would obey orders of the prince or the hierophant, at the same time they were equal to each other in terms of personal dignity.

That is how this relationship is described by Byzantine historian Leo the Deacon, telling about the meeting of Prince Svyatoslav with Emperor JohnTzimiskes:

“Sphendosthlavos arrived sailing along the river in a Scythian light boat, grasping an oar and rowing with his companions as if he were one of them. <…> His clothing was white and in no way different from that of the others with him – except for its cleanliness”.

Maurice, a famous Byzantine Emperor and writer of the sixth century, wrote about the Slavs: “They didn’t hold their prisoners in slavery until their death, but limiting the captivity to a certain period of time they would offer a choice: either to pay a ransom and get back home or stay as free persons and friends.”

Justice or fairness means absence of exploitation of human by human! When everybody has not only equal rights and duties, but there is a real opportunity to implement these rights.

Everything in the universe is fair, only an ancient choice is not, the one which has suggested the crowd-“elitist” culture of slavery to us, which must be dispersed like fog. So what prevents us from starting to correct the situation today, when the access to the world cultural heritage is granted through the internet for anyone?

Under the current living conditions of the society, due to the Law of Time, slavery in all of its aspects is fading away systematically, and more and more people can see it if they wish.

The Biblical concept of the crowd-“elitist” world order is supported by three mainstays:

1. Concealment of the knowledge of social governance  – called “Hermeticism”;

2. Implanting of the slave and slave-owner worldview based on deceitful ethics;

3. Hidden matriarchy, which means control through the sexual instincts whereby men are subjugated to women psychologically.

The Russian civilization proclaims its own concept of the fair life arrangement of the future:

1. The Concept of Public Security – the disclosure of the knowledge of social governance and dissemination of it through the educational system;

2. Learning and adoption by all people of the cognition methodology, the “dialectics”  as an art of searching for the truth by posing of elaborative questions and searching for answers to them;

3. Love –the God-given active state in which a man is really more capable and efficient in solving the problems of the society.

Based on the aforesaid, everyone has the right to start the construction of the society of social justice, in which there is no place neither for pawns, nor for queens and other active pieces of the wheeler-dealers and inquisitors existing within the framework of the crowd-“elitist” worldview. In the Russian worldview we all are equal before the Creator and there is no need in the games devised for finding the strongest, the smartest or the silliest one. There is a place for a Man, a vicegerent of God on Earth, his destiny and mission in Love and Co-creation for the good of the whole Universe.

 “…Vie, therefore, with one another in doing good deeds” (Qur’an 2:148) and God will add more to that, of which you do not know…