The Book of Ferro

4:1
She who is not absolutely truthful in will, thought, and expression regardless of others’ lust to be deceived, is no Mentat.

4:2
She who is not dedicated to cognition (Reason/Agape) above lesser emotions and logic, is no Mentat.

4:3
She who has no experience of Agape or “joyful tears” resulting from loving, rational discovery, is no Mentat.

4:4
She who does not grasp the mighty tradition of Classical Humanism into her breast, is no Mentat.

4:5
She who accepts, in principle, any rule, law, or custom not based on her own knowledge of truthful universal physical principle, lacks proper perversity, and, so, is no Mentat.

4:6
She who balks at exploring the Mythic mind will never attain to anticlassical cognition as the predicate to the subject of classical, and, so, is no Mentat.

4:7
She who does not profoundly envy the mind of the opposite sex, is no Mentat.

4:8
She whose body doth not come to worship her mind as lover, Lord, and Christ, and so suffer that mind’s gifts of charis-ecstatos-infernos, as if falling in love with herself, is no Mentat.

4:9
She who harbours not within her head, heart, and belly unspeakable hatred for suffering, ugliness, and falsehood – “the world as it is, and her flesh within it” – is no Mentat.

4:10
She who Agapes not the unified creative potentiality of the universe in whose cognitive image she is made, is no Mentat.

4:11
She who Agapes not other humans as herself, is no Mentat.

4:12
She who lacks mother-like compassion for all creation whatsoever, is no Mentat.

4:13
She whose curiosity is satiable in principle, is no Mentat.

4:14
She who realises and accepts not her own cognitively self-discovered cognitive identity in terms of her humanity, historical era, climate, mental sex, race, nationality, fleshly sex, and natural talent specialisations, is no Mentat.