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Discovered in the collection of the Library of the Great Lavra at Mount Athos, temporarily housed in the Xenofontos Monastery during renovation.

[Written in Greek]

   Refutation and Overthrow of Contemporary Heresies
   
   Thoroughly adapted and corrected dapted from the Latin of Gerbertus de Aurillaco

   Papistry . . .
   Nestorianism . . .
   Islam . . .

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   Habogadism: The demons that had inspired the false prophet Mani corrupted a pious 
   Christian monk and made him read 2 Samuel 24 & 1 Chron 21 one after the other, such that 
   he was deluded. For the former readeth:

   And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against 
   them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah...
   
   And the latter:
   
   Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel...

   He did conclude then that if one book ascribed to the Lord what the other ascribed to 
   Satan, so might other deeds of the Lord be ascribed to Satan, and he fell into error, and 
   falsely prophesied that the flood and the destruction of Babel were the doings of the 
   Adversary. Woe to him who calls good evil and evil good!

   Habogad preached many falsehoods, such as the lie that the Savior's role was incomplete or 
   ongoing, and that the Trinity was itself coeternal with the Adversary.  Some say in his 
   madness he ate his own feces.

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   Garlism: Some of the small and sickly men termed gnomes by the encyclopediast Celsus have 
   often turned their faces from the true God and worshipped instead the fiendish imp Garl. 
   He appears to be a benign and charming fellow, but all that glitters is not gold (hence 
   his name), and in his true form is Urdlen, a blind and hideous mole. His weapon is the two-
   headed ax, the labrys, familiar to readers of the companion volume Refutation and 
   Overthrow of Ancient Heresies as the weapon of the Cretan idolaters, whose she-demon 
   gave both good and bad fortune, each with one head of the ax.

   The Garlists teach that the world has always been and will always be, thus confounding the 
   ephemeral world with the eternity of the Trinity. They teach that both good and evil have 
   always, and will always exist, thereby proving themselves fatalists. Some might say this 
   kowtowing to the existence of evil is a form of nihilism, and that by affirming the world, 
   the Garlists in fact deny everything. Also, you cannot make a blimp from a lizard's tail. 

   To assert otherwise is absurd.