a revised amalgamation of the ancient holy scriptures It considerably extended the traditional canon, although it also abridged and reordered it It came packaged with the Liturgical Manual and the Commentaries The 0 C Bible reflected the blendmgs of scriptural tradition mat had already occurred for reasons of planetary convenience, and radically extended them Hie dramatic new melding inevitably produced an impression of start dislocation on many readers In order to offset this, a comprehensive index and marginal collations were provided Further, from the outset it was envisaged that each planet should have its own supplement, although it was of course impossible to produce all the requisite editions at once and this caused misunderstandings Hie very vast-ness of the new compendium earned its ecumenical message "Your faith has hither to been too smalt " TTie C E T was particularly fond of the idea of harmonization which they saw as an ecumenical activity They were also adept at covering their tracks, as it was no part of their purpose to suggest mat previous texts and arrangements had special authority As a consequence, they guaranteed labor for the next generation of scholars, who were en gaged in assembling mat bibliographic marvel, the Azhar Book, which preserves the great secrets of the most ancient faiths and traces the received texts to their origins With the help of the Azhar Book we can see something of the process of harmoniza tion which rendered the stiff old texts of the Bible, the Quran and so on, plastic enough to be mixed and twisted Some of the texts (which, interestingly enough remain among the most popular) proved highly resistant to change Tlie Book of Job passed through the furnace almost unscathed, for some reason, as did Preacher Revelation (not to be con fused with Revelations) was quite unchanged, whether because ot C t T exhaustion once the last book of the old Bible canon had been reached, or because of the dire threat in the last chapter, remains uncertain In the former Old Testament and New Testament, there was in general a great simplification, evident in the reduction of the number of books that remain from them, as well as the compression of their contents, when this can be observed m the unmelded texts The books that remain are Genesis, Exodus, Laws Promises, Kings, Refugees, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Preacher, Prophets, Gospel, Apostles, Epistles, Revelation The most controversial omission from the canon is Canticles also known as The Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs), which has nevertheless survived and is to be traced in various other O C Bible texts, including Blake Skul Visions and the Saan We have a hint m the Bertoh Memoirs to explain the omission "Bomoko hated the text which made Sheba say, 'I am black but comely' -his own wife was brown and remarkably ugly and suspected, more or less jokingly, of a secret attachment to Obeah rituals after she was once seen chasing a chicken into the jungle ' It