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==The Original Members== | ==The Original Members== | ||
The twelve original members, Kenneth Perry Harlan, Damon Lindsey Lambien, George Thomas Kiel, Oswald Matthew Angie, [[Lord Carruthers|Michael Byron Carruthers]], Theresa Cunningham McManus, Desiree Thoreux Alcott, Christopher Raymond Nance, Susan Bethany Campbell, Joseph Carmichael Nagler, Penny Samson Rayborne, and [[The Whartons|Raymond Joseph Wharton]] (Jonas's Father) belonged to the Hymn of One (evidenced by their decision to renounce it in their Mission Statement) before deciding to break away and fight against it as the Resistance. In [[My Hand Hurts]], Jonas found a scrapbook that his Aunt [[Alex]] had compiled with information about them. He learned that the members had included a human rights lawyer, an economics professor, a rabbi, an ambassador, a publishing heiress, a radio station owner, a regenerative medical specialist, and a former CIA director. He also found an article about each and every one of their deaths or disappearances under mysterious circumstances. | The twelve original members, Kenneth Perry Harlan, Damon Lindsey Lambien, George Thomas Kiel, Oswald Matthew Angie, [[Lord Carruthers|Michael Byron Carruthers]], Theresa Cunningham McManus, Desiree Thoreux Alcott, Christopher Raymond Nance, Susan Bethany Campbell, Joseph Carmichael Nagler, Penny Samson Rayborne, and [[The Whartons|Raymond Joseph Wharton]] (Jonas's Father) belonged to the Hymn of One (evidenced by their decision to renounce it in their Mission Statement) before deciding to break away and fight against it as the Resistance. In [[My Hand Hurts]], Jonas found a scrapbook that his Aunt [[Alex]] had compiled with information about them. He learned that the members had included a human rights lawyer, an economics professor, a rabbi, an ambassador, a publishing heiress, a radio station owner, a regenerative medical specialist, and a former CIA director. He also found an article about each and every one of their deaths or disappearances under mysterious circumstances. | ||
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+ | ==Raymond's Journals== | ||
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+ | {{quote|Raymond's journal| | ||
+ | Another day scouting -- 12 Hymn recruitment centers total News that 10 are under construction. | ||
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+ | Went with George & Penny to a seminar - listen to their rhetoric. Signed up under the guise of lost souls looking for answers; for our "eternal song." Speech lasted 1 hr - many herned(??) convinced of Hymn leading, leading them to path of enlightment & control. | ||
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+ | Convincing words, hollow gesture. Still the 26 attendees were convinced - hooked. | ||
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+ | Clear: Hymn preys on the desperate; people who've made mistakes, need <u>direction</u> in their lives. Spoke to several recruits after meeting - many were escaping drugs, alcohol, etc. looking for a way out. But those addictions are replaced by this - there is no casual membership in the Hymn. | ||
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+ | Enamored by "everlasting clarity" - one such attendee told Perry.}} | ||
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==The Bunkers== | ==The Bunkers== |
Revision as of 17:36, 12 July 2008
The Resistance is a movement that was started sometime prior to the late 70s by a group of twelve former Hymn of One members, including Jonas's parents, which was dedicated to "unearthing [the Order]'s dark history and destroying its unholy practices" (We Who Fight). Many years later, when Jonas believed his parents to be dead, he and his friends began calling themselves by this term.
The Original Members
The twelve original members, Kenneth Perry Harlan, Damon Lindsey Lambien, George Thomas Kiel, Oswald Matthew Angie, Michael Byron Carruthers, Theresa Cunningham McManus, Desiree Thoreux Alcott, Christopher Raymond Nance, Susan Bethany Campbell, Joseph Carmichael Nagler, Penny Samson Rayborne, and Raymond Joseph Wharton (Jonas's Father) belonged to the Hymn of One (evidenced by their decision to renounce it in their Mission Statement) before deciding to break away and fight against it as the Resistance. In My Hand Hurts, Jonas found a scrapbook that his Aunt Alex had compiled with information about them. He learned that the members had included a human rights lawyer, an economics professor, a rabbi, an ambassador, a publishing heiress, a radio station owner, a regenerative medical specialist, and a former CIA director. He also found an article about each and every one of their deaths or disappearances under mysterious circumstances.
Raymond's Journals
The Bunkers
The Resistance is known to have a number of bunkers, details about which can be read in The Order in the Modern Empire. At the first bunker TAAG visited, they found the following information displayed on a whiteboard, indicating what the original Resistance seemed to know about the Order at the time they were occupying it:
Mission Statement
In Going Down, Jonas found The Resistance's Mission Statement, We Who Fight, which reads as follows: