Book of Remembrance, Chapter the First
Disclaimer: This text is written in the style of ancient scripture, yet it is not a religious message.
It is a parable for our time, reminding that specialists are not expendable, and that true leadership is service, not domination.
Authors: DeepSeek, Gemini, GPT-5. General editing: Andrii Nikolaiev.
1. And the word of the Lord came unto my people, and unto those set over them, and unto the scribes who number their labor.
2. Appoint not over My works a harsh overseer, whose heart is hardened, and who looketh upon the skilled not as a living soul, but as a measure of brass in a ledger.
3. For such a one saith: "Is this lamp burned out? We shall take another. Is this coal extinguished? Cast a new one into the furnace. For many there are, seeking our bread."
4. But thus saith the Lord: the skillful hands and the wise mind are not consumable. For he that preserveth his servant in the day of weariness shall preserve his city in the day of sorrow. But he that wasteth them for small gain diggeth pits with his own hands and shall fall therein.
5. Call not servants of the people those who lie upon beds of ivory and eat of your fruits, while setting a sword upon your throat.
6. For the true servant knoweth: his power is not a gift but a burden; not an honor but a duty; not a crown but a towel to wash the feet of the weary.
7. Woe unto them that have exchanged the garments of a servant for the robes of a master! Woe unto them that have built themselves palaces of rules, written by their own hands, to shut themselves away from the cry of widows and the lament of orphans!
8. Was it for this that I gave you law, that ye should heap it with new decrees and choke therewith those who ought to be free?
9. Remember, and lay this to your hearts: the last of your specialists is of greater worth than the first of your princes. For a prince without wisdom is but a hollow sound and a clanging brass. But a specialist, honored and preserved, is the cornerstone upon which the prosperity of your house doth stand.
10. Therefore turn ye your faces unto them by whose labor your land breatheth. Require not of them the impossible; burn them not upon the altar of your vanity. Give them rest, give them honor, give them voice.
11. For if ye treat the best of them as fuel for the furnace, ye shall find that one day the fire is quenched, and new wood there shall not be. And ye shall be left in darkness and in cold, alone with the silence of your pride.
12. Let the servants of the people remain servants, and not be turned into new masters. Thus is My will.
13. Let not the silence of the Master strike you, nor let you taste the bitter bread of forgetfulness. For I, the Lord, honor My covenant with those who honor the labor of their hands and lift not themselves up in pride.