Lupelius - The School for Gods

clue, every new encounter on the trail of those lost teachings, was bringing order to myexistence.As if following the lines of a precise drawing, the fragments of my life, once scatteredpieces of an unknown mosaic, were now coming together, each one finding its rightful place.Finding that manuscript and going back to see the Dreamer became for me one single task.There was no other way of seeing Him again. This thought constantly rekindled my energy tocontinue the research He had entrusted to me.From the information I was slowly gathering and the elements of Lupelius’ philosophy thatI was able to piece together laboriously, the thought and character began to emerge of a greatSchool with principles as powerful as the walls of an immortal city. After more than athousand years, the fragments of those teachings still shone forth a light at odds with thesocial and moral dissolution of that era.The figure of Lupelius, servant to the world, immediately made a great impression on me.From the beginning of my research I had felt a growing admiration for this unknownphilosopher.The closer I got to him and to his mission, the more I saw this thinker towering alone abovepeople and events. His School stood out like a rock in a sea of ignorance and superstition. Histhinking hung like a fine gold chain across a history filled with crime and misadventure. Iwas unable to learn much about his life apart from the period of time he spent at the court ofCharles the Bald in France. Undoubtedly Lupelius was an unusual character, a philosopherand man of action unlike any other. He had no habits or routines. It was said that he couldstay awake for inordinate amounts of time. In any case no one had ever seen him sleep.“Sleeping makes you weak, in your mind, and in your body,” he said to his followers; andwith his typical Irish humour, added, “Sleeping is just a bad habit.”One of his more peculiar customs was to wander around the markets in the most dangerousand disreputable parts of the cities of Europe. There, in the most apparently unfavourableconditions, he initiated his followers into new ways of thinking and feeling, overthrowingconventional and narrow minded views of the world. There, his shining madnesstransformed that world of cheats and criminals, of snares and ambushes, into a school offlawlessness. He used the cleverest tricks to eradicate their ingrained beliefs and erase theemotional slime from their minds.His school forged remarkable men and invincible warriors. Lupelius made use of creativemethods for teaching and purification which he himself would constantly invent. He woulddisguise himself as a slave, a vagabond, a politician, a banker or a wealthy merchant and hewould use these roles strategically. Whether it was the crown of a king or the robe of a monk,Lupelius wore them and had his disciples wear them too, teaching them how to ‘become’ thecharacter they were inhabiting, to explore and understand every detail and every secret, butwithout ever forgetting that it was a game and becoming trapped by it. He took them into theSouk where he involved them in wild intrigues with bandits and criminals. He encouragedthem to enter the most deprived sectors of society, he pushed them to undertake the mostdesperate of voyages, almost beyond the point of no return. The Lupelians joined up as8