Gilles et Jehanne

The so feared and cruel Gilles, once a paladin ov faith, knew her flesh with as much wisdom as his... like a holy prayer book that is read not only with eyes and the low murmur ov the faithful but with careful hands and the soul in flames, the ascent ov the pure. He had taken care ov her battle wounds, he had watched her sleep, and he had seen her eyes gleam under the grasp ov his hands, united in flesh and blood, transmogrifyied into a double-headed beast breathing through the same throat, bleeding through the same heart, piercing through the Nihil through the same retinas. Blades like caresses: fire like the touch ov the most tender Mother: no blood, for our race never bleeds, like flowers opening silently in the dawn ov an eclipse, when no one notices and no one sees.

La Séve et le Sang.

When the flames were thrown around her at her martyrdom in Rouen, his reason was taken by her agony. He saw his double in agony before his eyes, dying helpless at the hands ov the butchers ov Rome.

It was the start ov Rais' hunt on humanity, the crowning ov the menschenfeind, preying on young children's flesh, the same children that would become robed priests one day, the same who had burned alive the only soul he had loved, the immanent, perpetually pure angel that was burned at the stake one rainy day at Rouen.

However, some chronicles state that Jehanne d'Arc was saved and another woman was burned in her place. According to these rumours, Jehanne had been taken pregnant (with the child ov Gilles de Rais) to Bretagne where she was given a fake name and married to a certaing Robert des Armoises. The name Rais was probably corrupted into what we know nowadays as Retz, who exist in France, or Reis, who propagated through France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal.

In alchemical terms, the double Rebis, absolute albedo and absolute nigredo, are both parts ov the cosmic cycle represented either in the infinite symbol, the 13/31 duality or the Dagaz rune. The Dove and the Serpent are just one, ignited and sacred. The blood ov Rais is alive, undoubtfully. Can the fates ever deter the process that will immolate its double and turn the annointed spirit into the bête noire?