Award of the Elephants Heart

Awarded to Albina Gherardi (modernly known as Dawn Gerardi-Reid)

By the Barony of Cynnabar on 2017-04-01

Praise be to those who sustain human souls in prosperity
and adversity, abundance and want, victory and defeat,
pleasure and pain, and make them partakers of the holy
light of peace.

The extraordinary Albina Gherardi is such a pearl. Her
heart and mind have gone on increasing, until by loftiness
of thought and sublimity of genius, the lights of wisdom
shine from her countenance; the Divine secrets are
manifested on her forehead. She sits behind the screen of
kindness and abides in the chamber of generosity.
Thus, for the accomplishment of things visible and
invisible, do We who rule from the White Tower of
Cynnabar, Kasha and Ermenrich, grant unto Albina
Gherardi Our Award of the Elephant’s Heart. Let none
countermand Our words.

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Based on an excerpt from The Akbarnama, Chapter 15, “Her Majesty Alanquwa, the
Cupola of Chastity and Veil of Purity”, by Abu al-Fazal ibn Mubarak (1551 – 1602).

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