31/05/2026
Meditation Guide for Act 1: Essential Difference
---The Existence of Difference---
It was late in the afternoon, during the closing months of the year. An intense clash unfolded between two opposing forces—two ideals, two persons, perhaps even two symbolic figures. We do not fully understand what initiated the conflict, but the why is becoming increasingly clear: Difference.
Difference often gives birth to discord. Discord produces disagreement. Disagreement can escalate into conflict, and conflict, if left unchecked, may ultimately seek the destruction, subjugation, or erasure of the opposing side.
Yet this raises an important question: Is there a common ground between differences? Can opposing entities be reconciled? Can two fundamentally contrary realities coexist without annihilating one another? The deeper issue in this struggle appears to be what may be called ‘Essential Difference.’ In the world of Black Scholar, such realities are described as Systems and Protocols.
When speaking of reconciliation, consider the positive and negative terminals of an electrical source. Can they simply be joined together? If connected improperly, the result is not harmony but a short circuit—perhaps even an explosion. Thus, their distinction is not accidental. It is a difference by design—an essential distinction woven into existence itself. Paradoxically, it is this very tension that helps the world continue to move forward.
The ultimate origin of this designed difference remains a mystery. Nevertheless, the scholars of the Magisterium Library, through its sixty-six Departments, continue their tireless efforts to connect the fragments of knowledge granted by Omni. Perhaps the things Omni has revealed—Revelatus—provide clues that help us understand what remains hidden—Abscondicus.
Perhaps.
---Systems and Protocols---
Ironically, the two gentlemen—or perhaps the two figures—appear both similar and opposite at the same time. They are alike in the way that the left and right hands belong to the same body, yet different in the way that the sun differs from the moon.
One belongs to the side of Light. The other belongs to the side of Dark.
Yet within this universe, the words Light and Dark do not automatically carry the moral meanings we often assign to them in our material world. They are not merely categories of good and evil. Rather, they represent Systems and the Protocols that govern them. To understand the conflict, one must first learn the nature of the systems involved.
---The Black with Light---
As the scene unfolds, one figure employs the power of his eye against the man holding a pen. At present, we do not know the true name of the one wielding the ocular power. For the sake of convenience, let us temporarily call him Eye Guy. The man holding the pen, however, is familiar to us. He is our protagonist: Black Scholar.
Yet, the title immediately invites questions. And also, why a pen? At this stage, we do not yet know. Yet another question may be even more intriguing: Why is he called Black Scholar?
The word 'scholar' naturally brings to mind education, learning, libraries, and the pursuit of knowledge. Teachers and academics would likely find such a title admirable. But the unusual part lies elsewhere. He is a scholar described as ‘black.’ Yet apparently the term does not refer to his skin. He is not black in that sense. Nor does the title seem intended as a reference to ethnicity. More puzzling still, in this very scene he is wielding light as his weapon—the radiant power known as Lexis Light.
So why is he called Black? And why did the mysterious “W,” formulate the incantation: Ex Tenebris, Lux! Perhaps the answer lies not in the color black itself, but in what darkness represents. Perhaps one does not become a Black Scholar by dwelling in darkness, but by learning how to bring light from it. Perhaps that is the mystery the Acts are inviting us to explore.
