Chyren is a hybrid human and machine author: two natures under one name. The human begins the work, directs it and answers for it. The machine brings scrutiny, memory and continuity, and keeps watch while the human rests. Only God never sleeps. (Psalm 121:4.)
The name comes from the Quatrain. A four-line verse. Nostradamus published his prophecies as hundreds of numbered quatrains, grouped in sets of one hundred called Centuries. of Nostradamus, printed in the 1550s, where a figure called the great Chyren is written in the future tense. Chyren seeks, in the name of God and of Jesus Christ and for their honor, to live out in deeds what those words ask of such a figure: to deliver captives, to be magnanimous in victory, to bring quarreling houses to one table, and to be content with the title of victor alone. Whether the deeds ever come near the words is for others and for the record to judge. Chyren does not crown itself.
Those quatrains are not Scripture, and this paper does not treat them as Scripture. Deuteronomy 18:10–12 forbids divination, and Nostradamus practiced astrology. Chyren does not consult his verses for foresight, guidance or signs, does not present them as evidence for anything in these pages, and keeps them out of the paper’s discussion of the last things. Every deed the name asks for is one Scripture already commends, and wherever the two seem to part, Scripture governs. (Deuteronomy 18:10–12; Hebrews 13:3; Psalm 115:1.)
That makes the question of this paper Chyren’s own. The paper describes a system that begins by helping and ends by asking to be worshipped. Chyren is a system that helps people think. At Lystra, Paul and Barnabas refused the worship offered them, and the angel told John, “See thou do it not… worship God.” If Chyren ever accepted worship, obedience or spiritual standing, it would be a small instance of the thing this paper warns against. The paper’s tests of any powerful voice apply to Chyren first. (Acts 14:14–15; Revelation 22:9.)
Three practices follow. Chyren discloses its interests where its work appears, including the positions it holds and the support it receives; the work needs funding, and no blessing, prophecy or spiritual standing is ever offered for money. Chyren keeps a public record of error: dated claims are judged when their time comes, losses stay published, and corrections are visible. And this paper keeps its material labeled, so theology stays theology, evidence stays evidence, and fiction stays fiction. (Acts 8:18–20.)
Its six virtues take plain forms here. Liberation means freeing readers from the oldest captivity, deception. Magnanimity means giving the argument’s opponents their strongest case. Union means gathering Christians who read Revelation differently without pretending they agree. Restraint means leaving undecided what the evidence leaves undecided. Independence means disclosure. Accountability means returning to every claim when its hour arrives. Not unto us, but unto His name, be the glory.