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5 Important Lessons About Faith From An Assassin
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
Assassin’s Creed is a historical fiction/science fiction game that chronicles a long conflict between the Assassin Order and the Templar Order.
In the middle of it all stands one man who revolutionised the Assassin Order into what it is today. His name is Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad.
Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad’s Codex was a personal journal written by Altaïr himself after he took over mentorship of the Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins in 1191 until his passing in 1257, following the death of the treacherous Al Mualim.
He finished writing the Codex at 92 years old.
It provides us with an inside look of information obtained from the Apple of Eden, and also Altaïr’s philosophy on life, his personal opinions regarding God and religions, and valuable lessons that we can incorporate into our own lives.
Blind faith is proof of a weak mind.
Just the briefest flicker of doubt was all he (Al Mualim) needed to creep into my mind. But I vanquished his phantoms — restored my self-confidence — and sent him from this world. I freed…
