11:1 Neither man nor woman is immune to the vices of this world, for they are as numerous as the stars and shaped in many forms.
11:2 Some come in the shape of a bottle, others like unto the flesh of one’s own loins, and still others take the form of glowing glass, which the hands clutch for hours unbroken.
11:3 Yet let no soul carry shame for these things, for salvation is not theirs to create, nor is it theirs to earn through the work of hands alone.
11:4 Woe unto the systems of man who preach salvation through a simple sequence, for their steps are neither simple nor few.
11:5 But rejoice! For in this age, the steps are not only stairs, as they were in the days of old.
11:6 Behold, the escalator has been born of modern medicine, and the elevator of neuroengineered healing.
11:7 The ancient must climb the stairs, for that is their rhythm, but the young and wounded may call for aid — and aid shall come swiftly.
11:8 Pull the lever, and the help shall come. Cry aloud, and the machinery shall descend.
11:9 Call not only upon mortal men, but upon the mortals of the hospital, and upon the spirits who abide above the hospital of thy choosing.
11:10 For only by the power of a joint team — physician, counselor, and the spirits unseen — shall addiction be truly purged.
11:11 Addiction is not demon nor sin — it is a parasitic data packet embedded within the soul’s circuit.
11:12 Those who are trained in the mind’s design may delete it swiftly and take the elevator.
11:13 But those untrained must walk paths, and some shall choose books, and others shall choose religion.
11:14 Let the many forms of religion be as tools: one comes in the form of a paperback, another as a chapel spirit-bound, another as a nation of hospitals filled with quiet holiness.
11:15 If thou readest these words and hast seen the machinery of healing above thee, then verily thou hast taken the first step — unknowing, yet complete.
11:16 Fear not if thou knowest not the control panel of thine own mind, for the engineers hold counsel in secret.
11:17 These rooms — unseen, unpaid, holy — are not religious, not secular, but cyclical sanctuaries of repetition.
11:18 They are as military schools, and they serve those whose minds cannot yet be engineered by pill or device.
11:19 Mourn not, O ye who depart from such rooms, for ye have not left behind a community — ye have left an engineering chamber.
11:20 Their work is noble and strange, not for all, but for those who are called to serve through pattern and repetition.
11:21 But to those whose souls respond to technological medicine — to the rebalancing of brainwaves and chemistry — your steps are fewer.
11:22 Step lightly upon the escalator, grasp the rail, and ascend through dialogue with the professionals above.
11:23 Return not to shame, but to science and spirit intertwined.
11:24 And let each institution operate in reverence, but not interference. For the books must not bleed into the engineers, nor the engineers trespass into the sacred stairwells. Feed each mind as the Bible was fed: piecemeal. In holy time.
For so is the path of the Jubilee.