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'''''The Apocrypha Terra''''' is an [[Imperial]] text. Its date of composition is unknown.{{Fn|1}}
==Excerpts==
'''"They are dead, they will not live;<br>they are shades, they will not arise;<br>to that end you have visited<br>them with destruction and<br>wiped out all remembrance of them."'''
[[Wikipedia:Book of Isaiah|Uncited]]{{fn|1}}
'''"Pride Go'eth Before Abandon,<br>"Vanity Go'eth Before Weakness,<br>"Vainglory Go'eth Before the Fall."'''
[[Wikipedia:Book of Proverbs|The Cantos of Proverbs]]{{fn|2a}}
'''"And the seven crowned and seventh Angel poured fourth his bowl, saying "It is done".<br>And the stain spread upon the lands and all was laid waste."'''
[[Wikipedia:Book of Revelation|The Book of Sorrows]]{{fn|2b}}
'''"Ignorance is the doom of lesser men and their solace both, but Pride is the doom of the great men who arise to master them, and for them no solace can be found."'''
The Canticle of the Dead{{fn|3a}}
'''"Our name is Legion, for we are many."'''
[[Wikipedia:Gospel_of_Mark|The Book of Malignancies]]{{fn|3b}}
'''"And in that time the Great Beasts shall walk the earth,<br>beneath their tread shall cities become as dust<br>by their burning breath shall civilisations be as ash, So the End of Days is begun."'''
Uncited{{fn|4a}}
'''"The angel took up the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar and cast it down to the land; and there followed earthquake, thunder, lightning and death."'''
[[Wikipedia:Book of Revelation|Uncited]]{{fn|4b}}
'''"And he cried mightily with a baleful voice, declaring the abode of heroes is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful beast."'''
[[Wikipedia:Book of Revelation|Uncited]]{{fn|4c}}
'''"He who partakes of the devil's works will be brought at length to wield the devil's sword."'''
[[Wikipedia:Thomas Fuller|The Book of Admonitions]]{{fn|4d}}
==Trivia==
{{trivia}}
The "Apocrypha Terra" seems to be what has become of the [[Wikipedia:Bible|Bible]] in the [[Age of the Imperium]]: the excerpts are direct or edited quotations, but also refer to later religious writings.
==See also==
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Know No Fear (Novel)]], Epigraphs before Section ''"Target//Acquisition"''epigraphs*2: [[The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre]]**{{endn|2a}}: pg. 219**{{endn|2b}}: pg. 225*3: [[The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination]]**{{endn|3a}}: pg. 13**{{endn|3b}}: pg. 78*4: [[The Horus Heresy Book Five - Tempest]]**{{endn|4a}}: pg. 6**{{endn|4b}}: pg. 24**{{endn|4c}}: pg. 44**{{endn|4d}}: pg. 54
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