Trust in the Heights with all your heart; lean not on your own understanding.
The wisdom of men is madness with the Heights; the wisdom of the divine is inscrutable to mortals.
Above all things, guard the ways to your heart and sow its pathways with divine seeds,
So that the thoughts of your heart sprout the wisdom of faith.
In the vale of the dark shadows, seek the guiding star of trust in the Most High.
-From “The Wisdom of Lassar the Blessed” (The Sayings, Book I, 15:4-9)
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
The FuneralSabíana was swathed in furs and warmed somewhat by the braziers in each corner of the stone gazebo. Built near the altar of the Grove of Mysteries, it was almost completely concealed from the view of the people in the Temple. She had been here, trying to contemplate in peace, for
