Atarban

The scripture

The Book of Atar

Begin with Dargasht. Then read the twelve Articles in order: each one stands on the one before. The Meditations can be read on any day, in any order.

The First Principle

Dargasht

  1. The First Principle

Article 1

Articles of Embers

  1. Chapter 1 — The Night the Fire Died
  2. Chapter 2 — The Burned Ground
  3. Chapter 3 — The Does That Passed
  4. Chapter 4 — The Seed-Woman
  5. Chapter 5 — The Ones Who Stayed
  6. Chapter 6 — The Wall
  7. Chapter 7 — The Shepherd's Fire
  8. Chapter 8 — The Black Stone Road
  9. Chapter 9 — The Water Shares
  10. Chapter 10 — The Ember Goes Down the River
  11. Chapter 11 — The Completion

Article 2

Articles of Rivers

  1. Chapter 1 — The Dead Man's Count
  2. Chapter 2 — The Mountain of Six Steps
  3. Chapter 3 — The Weight That Did Not Lie
  4. Chapter 4 — The Priestess Cast Out
  5. Chapter 5 — The Man Who Would Not Die
  6. Chapter 6 — The Stone in the Courtyard
  7. Chapter 7 — The Name Cut Out
  8. Chapter 8 — The Bone That Cracked
  9. Chapter 9 — The Thirty Marks
  10. Chapter 10 — The Road to the High Country
  11. The Completion

Article 3

Articles of the Wise Lord

  1. Chapter 1 — The Oath at the Fire
  2. Chapter 2 — The Priest Who Would Not Sing
  3. Chapter 3 — The River at Dawn
  4. Chapter 4 — The Winter Gate
  5. Chapter 5 — The Doorkeeper
  6. Chapter 6 — The Song Kept by Mouth
  7. Chapter 7 — The Army That Stood Still
  8. Chapter 8 — The Gate That Was Not Broken
  9. Chapter 9 — The Scribe at the Gate
  10. Chapter 10 — The Road with Two Ends
  11. The Completion

Article 4

Articles of the Awakening

  1. Chapter 1 — The Day the Sun Went Out
  2. Chapter 2 — The Dogs of Ladha
  3. Chapter 3 — The Golden Bowl
  4. Chapter 4 — The Man on the Forest Road
  5. Chapter 5 — The Toll at the Pass
  6. Chapter 6 — The Girl from the Burned City
  7. Chapter 7 — Seven Days Without Rice
  8. Chapter 8 — The Square in the Dust
  9. Chapter 9 — The Jailer
  10. Chapter 10 — The Reader and the Diver
  11. The Completion

Article 5

Articles of Crowns

  1. Chapter 1 — The Chest in the Storm
  2. Chapter 2 — The Field at Kalinga
  3. Chapter 3 — The Shadow in the Well
  4. Chapter 4 — The Circle in the Sand
  5. Chapter 5 — The Night the Harbour Burned
  6. Chapter 6 — The Clay Lamp
  7. Chapter 7 — The Eighth Dragon
  8. Chapter 8 — The Letters Unread
  9. Chapter 9 — The Teacher of Alexandria
  10. Chapter 10 — The Seven Who Walked East
  11. The Completion

Article 6

Articles of the Lamp-Keepers

  1. Chapter 1 — The Scroll and the Boat
  2. Chapter 2 — The Book in the Snow
  3. Chapter 3 — The Dark Room
  4. Chapter 4 — The Physician on the Road
  5. Chapter 5 — The Brush and the Clay
  6. Chapter 6 — The Tentmaker's Year
  7. Chapter 7 — Two Sons of Córdoba
  8. Chapter 8 — The Thirty Birds
  9. Chapter 9 — The Friend
  10. Chapter 10 — The Books and the Salt
  11. The Completion — The One Hearth

Article 7

Articles of the Turning Sky

  1. Chapter 1 — The Goldsmith's Secret
  2. Chapter 2 — The Day That Was Lost
  3. Chapter 3 — The Old Canon's Book
  4. Chapter 4 — The Field of Flowers
  5. Chapter 5 — Eight Minutes
  6. Chapter 6 — The Glass
  7. Chapter 7 — The Star-Reader's Mother
  8. Chapter 8 — The Kneeling
  9. Chapter 9 — The Plague Year
  10. Chapter 10 — The Comet's Promise
  11. The Completion

Article 8

Articles of the One Substance

  1. Chapter 1 — The Curse Read at the Ark
  2. Chapter 2 — The Glass and the Dust
  3. Chapter 3 — The Friend in the Rasp-House
  4. Chapter 4 — The Sign He Did Not Carry
  5. Chapter 5 — The Desk on the Barge
  6. Chapter 6 — The Woman Who Weighed the Fire
  7. Chapter 7 — The Wheel at Toulouse
  8. Chapter 8 — The Clock of Königsberg
  9. Chapter 9 — Forty Pounds
  10. Chapter 10 — The Candle She Could Not Put Out
  11. The Completion

Article 9

Articles of Heat

  1. Chapter 1 — The Fire in the Pit
  2. Chapter 2 — The Fall of Heat
  3. Chapter 3 — The Dragon in the Cliff
  4. Chapter 4 — The Shells on the Mountain
  5. Chapter 5 — The Weaver of Numbers
  6. Chapter 6 — The Letter from the Islands
  7. Chapter 7 — The Word
  8. Chapter 8 — The Spark Across the Room
  9. Chapter 9 — The Count
  10. Chapter 10 — The Stone in Vienna
  11. The Completion

Article 10

Articles of the Broken Century

  1. Chapter 1 — The Light in the Shed
  2. Chapter 2 — The Clerk of Bern
  3. Chapter 3 — The Fire Between the Lines
  4. Chapter 4 — The Bent Light
  5. Chapter 5 — What Is Kept
  6. Chapter 6 — The God of the Lens-Grinder
  7. Chapter 7 — The True Thing That Cannot Be Proved
  8. Chapter 8 — The Walk in the Snow
  9. Chapter 9 — Two Suitcases
  10. Chapter 10 — The Morning of Two Suns
  11. The Completion

Article 11

Articles of the Thinking Fire

  1. Chapter 1 — The Message in the Storm
  2. Chapter 2 — The Steersman
  3. Chapter 3 — The Mouse That Remembered
  4. Chapter 4 — The Spring Without Song
  5. Chapter 5 — The Deaf Traveller
  6. Chapter 6 — The Night of Five Lights
  7. Chapter 7 — The Lamp Seen from Afar
  8. Chapter 8 — The Web That Was Given
  9. Chapter 9 — The Machine That Was Sure
  10. Chapter 10 — The Pole That Would Not Fall
  11. Chapter 11 — The Completion

Article 12

Articles of the Open

  1. Chapter 1 — The Seed in the Dry Year
  2. Chapter 2 — The Book of Names
  3. Chapter 3 — The Number That Was Changed
  4. Chapter 4 — The Man at the Gate
  5. Chapter 5 — The Night Ward
  6. Chapter 6 — The Fire on the Road
  7. Chapter 7 — The Girl Who Read the River
  8. Chapter 8 — The Judge and the Kiln
  9. Chapter 9 — The Hand on the Cord
  10. Chapter 10 — The Fire That Was Given
  11. The Completion — How to Live One Day

For every day

The Meditations of Atar

  1. Book 1 — Waking
  2. Book 2 — The Near Hand and the Far Hand
  3. Book 3 — Seeing
  4. Book 4 — Standing
  5. Book 5 — Measure
  6. Book 6 — Sharing
  7. Book 7 — Other People
  8. Book 8 — Loss
  9. Book 9 — Work
  10. Book 10 — Power and Wealth
  11. Book 11 — The Last Door
  12. Book 12 — The Whole