Book of Aireánnau

The Book of Aireánnau is thought to be an early eleventh century work fictitiously attributed to Aireánnau. The work is of great interest to scholars of philosophy. It is thought the true author did not intend for the work to be genuinely thought the product of the Arathracian Saint, but rather used such attribution as a literary device. It is sometimes called the Book of Pseudo-Aireánnau, especially by Arathracian scholars.

Excerpts from the Book of Aireánnau

Spirituality is the thought-bridge between flesh and truth. The Spirit is the river between the banks of earth and heaven. What Eriu wills cannot be touched, because everything is greater than the hand of mortals.

In the beginning was infinity; and infinity knew order; and order knew spiritual enlightenment. In the end will be finity; and finity will know disorder; and disorder will know stubbornness.

Not to be female is best, nor to be male, but to seek the harmonious immanence of Eriu.

Death gives life, life death, for this is the presence of Eriu.

Outside of time rests timelessness. Outside of timelessness stands time. The Sun gives night and day. She gives the end and the beginning, but her giving never ends. The woman’s seed is the man; the man’s seed is the woman; this is the turning of Eriu.

Where hate boils, indifference will flourish. Where indifference stagnates, love has prospered.

Eriu does not know time, but she knows the man and the man knows time; time brings death; therefore, men bring death and command the armies—but death gives life. Life is before death. After death is life. The woman holds the man, but the woman holds nothing without the man. This is the cycle of the Sun.

Men are not born men, but are born children. Womanhood follows childhood. Nature takes adulthood for her fleshly purpose. Priest-nobles must take the immanence of the Sun for its own purpose. When Eriu’s purpose ends, it will have already begun. The eyes give names, but cannot see names. Without names, namelessness ceases. Without men, woman cannot be. Without Eriu, Orclanx cannot be. Life and Death are one.

The woman is death because she dies in childbirth. The man is death because the enemy of the family slays him. The man is life because he gives the seed. The woman is life because she fulfills the egg.

The harmony of death is life. The harmony of life is death. The chaos of life is life. The chaos of death is death. This is the cycle of the sun.

The mouth is the man to the heart, for the heart hears, but the eyes are the child of the sun, for that which is not the sun sees the sun, and that which is not the parent is the child. But the child and the parent are one. The name and the named cannot part ways, and the daughter will mother daughters.

To die is life. To enter the presence of Eriu is to slay the presence of Knome. Where Knomos is, Eriu is not. Where Eriu is, there is not Knomos.

The woman is the slave of the flesh in pregnancy, but the mastery of the flesh works by means of the womb. The man is the mastery of the union, but his excess of desire causes slavery.

What is good today will be evil tomorrow. This is the cycle of the Sun.