FROM DIVINENESS TO WICKEDNESS AND WICKEDNESS IS BEING SHOWCASED NOW

FROM DIVINENESS TO WICKEDNESS AND WICKEDNESS IS BEING SHOWCASED NOW 

FAILURE AND THE FALL OF LUCIFER GRIPPING PLANET EARTH INIQUITY AND SIN 

FROM DIVINENESS TO WICKEDNESS AND WICKEDNESS IS BEING SHOWCASED NOW

FAILURE AND THE FALL OF LUCIFER GRIPPING PLANET EARTH INIQUITY AND SIN

In the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ to our brothers and sisters across the whole world listening to me.

Today is the 19th of the month of October, the 10th month in the calendar year of 2026 according to the Gregorian calendar.

Brothers and sisters, it's a delight again. Today is the Monday. I'm giving this short brief based on my Saturday message.

It's when I look at the news, the France, the Paris, some of the places that we went to and we seen some of the shops are burning.

Incredible. Brothers and sisters, we left France on 26th of September.

I never thought that this kind of thing will happen in Paris. This is the status of affairs of the world.

Brothers and sisters, let me go back, go straight to the message.

We were talking about this aspect of separation and that separation, that status of lostness.

Now I must tell you brothers and sisters we human beings have body, soul and the spirit. We are not animals. We are not like trees. We are not like insects. We are not like birds or fish. We have a body, soul and the spirit.

Even sometime when the body is satisfied, the soul feels empty.

That's the reason that psalmist says in Psalm 42, my heart pants after you , oh living God, in other words, my soul. People in the world do many things but at the end of the day almost 99% feel empty having achieved many things having had many riches Yes. Now I just want to go back to the original.

Now lot many people doesn't know about the story Ezekiel chapter 28 verses 13 to 15.

So brothers and sisters, as I told you, our planet Earth, 250 million years ago was a one super continent called Pangaea and one super ocean called Panthalassa. Panthalassa (also known as the Panthalassic Ocean) was the vast superocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea approximately 300 to 200 million years ago.  At its peak, it covered about 70% of Earth's surface, making it significantly larger than the modern Pacific Ocean, which represents only the remnants of Panthalassa.

These are scientific evidence. I'm not telling a story out of my own thinking. The scientists have now confirmed there was one super continent, one super ocean and that is 250 million years ago. They give different period of time 20, 60 million, 80 million, 300 million years, that kind of thing because they are still kind of grappling with the identical time and that's the time the dinosaurs and these dinos were vegetarians, big animals, vegetarians, the fauna and the flora at that time totally different, not like what we have

now. So they live for 250 million years. Sudden extinct.

Now brothers and sisters sudden accidentally the whole planet earth was frozen and their flesh got buried and buried and buried under ice and that's what we are fighting now in the home street, the fossils oil which goes into our motorcycles, our cars, our buses, our trains, our trucks.

So brothers without that we cannot move about, the whole world will come to a standstill. See the oil prices are go up.

Prices of commodities are going up, mainly because of oil, transportion, transportation cost, traveling cost,

everything. So brothers and sisters, these dinosaurs for 250 million years and that is 250 million years ago.

And this planet, the universe, the Lord God Almighty has created enormous time period, ages and ages.

In Genesis chapter 2:4 says, "Generations and generations of the universe, stages and the ages of the universe." The Bible is very profound, very clearly pronounced on these things. Generations and generations of the universe, the stages and the ages. So brothers and sisters, the universe was created now according to scientists 26 billion years ago.

And in the universe there are now 10 trillion galaxies.

The scientist now confirms very clearly there are trillions and trillions of laws governing the universe and the

trillions and trillions of mathematical formulas in operation keeping the whole universe highly synchronized greatly harmonized wonderfully organized without any chaos whatsoever there.

So brothers and sisters let me take you back to this period.

Bible talks about the Lucifer before his failed fall, he was a mighty archangel and do you know brothers and sisters God's first creation is the angels.

God Almighty as apostle Paul says in 1 Timothy 1:17;  King eternal, immortal, invisible, wise God. And this God is a living God, the almighty, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient.

So brothers and sisters, the almighty God is an eternal spirit. As I told you, the essence of the almighty living God is a spirit. Essence of the spirit of God is divine  consciousness. That's the supreme thing in the universe. Even human consciousness is a very high value thing. Animals don't have, the trees doesn't have, the bird doesn't have, the fish doesn't have. 

So the divine consciousness is the essence of the living God.

And he demonstrate in three different aspects. Divine wisdom, divine knowledge, divine understanding because our God is a living God.

He has the perception, discernment and he has ability to conceive innovation and creativity various new things and that's what is imagination, visualization, actualization.

Divine imagination, divine visualization and actualization.

So tat is our living God. The whole universe is imagination, visualisation, actualization of God almighty. So, the first and foremost, God shared his divine consciousness with

his precious creation, the angels. The trillions of angels, and the Lucifer was entrusted the planet earth and the solar system. And Bible says he has the anointing. The anointing is connected to divine consciousness. And he had the ability to move about, understand the realm of God will.  The depth and the height and the length and the breadth every aspect of God's design, God's desire, and God's demand. He has the very well ability, that he was entrusted not only in planet Earth, but including the solar system. 

So for 250 million years he ran perfectly the planet earth in that era of dinosaurs.

Now brothers and sisters suddenly things got changed. Because with the divine consciousness God gives the ability to angels to think with Him. Not think about Him, think with Him continuously.

With the divine consciousness comes the ability of thinking with the living God.

God is a thought thinking God, the breathing God progressing and moving for the universe and the continuous dialogue and communication, communion with His creation.

That's how our living God is.

So He entrusted this to the angels and particular Lucifer.

And he ran it for 250 million years perfectly. And that's exactly God says, "You are perfect in all your ways." 

Yes. Read the scriptures. 

You are perfect in all your ways until the iniquity. What is iniquity? 

Because brothers and sisters, iniquity happened before sin

happened. Sin happened in the flesh but iniquity take place here in the mind , in the consciousness, in the thinking.

So what happened to Lucifer was he saw everything in the universe. God gave the privilege for him to see and he suddenly realized I done it for 250 million years perfectly. But God should give me more authority, more power of the other galaxies. There are two 10 trillion galaxies. I need to be given those.

Suddenly he think about himself, what he doesn't have. Think about God, what he has.

Like the religions today, you think about your inadequacies, shortcomings, failures and falls, disasters in your life. And you think about somebody can help you maybe a deity maybe a god.

So what happens brothers and sisters suddenly that's what it's exactly Ezekiel 28:3-15

Isaiah chapter 14: 12-15 it talks about the great heighteness he had the great authority he had and how he did perfectly the perfection come to the angel came to the angel by virtue of thinking with the living God almighty. You can't go wrong. You can't fail and fall if you're continuously thinking with God.

But suddenly Lucifer began to think about himself, what he doesn't have. And what began to think about God, what he has, what he's not giving to him.

That's the status of human beings also today.

Always think about what you don't have. So you conquer and conquer and get various things for yourself. And at the end of the day you feel empty. And he said, "I will." "I will be like." So when you begin to think about yourself, naturally ego selfishness begin to have the rule of the day.

Instead of thinking with the living God, instead of doing the right thing at the right time at the right place in the right way according to the mind of the living God. Design of the living God. Desire of the living God, demands of the living God. He began to think about himself. And that's what God said.

What happened to you? You have fallen because your ego self. Your selfishness has brought you down. Lucifer the son of beginning. Morning star. God said, "Oh Lucifer, how thou fallen? You said in your heart, you will do this, did this for yourself.

Whereas I gave the privilege for you to think with me and establish bigger and greater things for everyone.

That's why brothers and sisters, God knew his failure and his fall. That's why he was named Lucifer. Lucifer mean the son of the beginning but he didn't become son till the end. But look at Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael, all that have el means they are all connected to divine consciousness.

Divine Consciousness of the eternal everlasting Father. And thereby they are continuously thinking with the living God.

When you are thinking with the living God, there's no room for iniquity.

And if there's no room for iniquity, there's no room for sin and corruption.

So what happened to absolutely Lucifer?

He began to see the many things in the galaxies. 250 million galaxies before the the scientist saw he saw everything

because he was given the not only the authority of the planet earth but also the solar system and having ruled it for 250 million years, he felt, I have done it perfectly.

And God Himself called him one day and said you are perfect. You're doing everything so perfectly because you are continuously having my divine consciousness.

And as a result of you having my divine consciousness, you're continuously thinking with me and as you think with me, you are fulfilling my design, my desire, my demands.

You know brothers and sisters the Bible right throughout says there is no one like the eternal Father, cannot be

compared to Him. He is the King eternal, immortal, invisible and the only wise God. So brothers and sisters right throughout , brothers and sisters, God will not share His majesty and glory with any human being or for that matter, angels.

So there are trillions of angels who is assisting the almighty living God to run the affairs of the universe.

Universe is so vast. Even the scientists are saying we only see 4%. So 96% of the universe we don't see. But God is the God of not only our planet earth, not only our solar system, not only few galaxies, but God is the God of the whole universe. But he is not part of the universe. He is not part of the universe is tangible thing. God is not tangible. He's not the part of material world. Universe is material, full of galaxies, full of solar systems, full of various created things in the universe. But God is eternal, everlasting, eternal spirit. So, brothers and sisters, God gave that authority, that power, and that responsibility with an accountability to

the angels. That's why God saw Lucifer would fall one day. He was named Lucifer. the son of beginning but he never end as a son of God. But the angels like Gabriel, Michael, Uriel, Raphael, there are 12 principal angels taking care of the universe. There are trillions of angels, taking care of the laws of the universe.

Scientists are saying this universe have so many trillions of laws, trillions of mathematical formulas and scientists are said they are like divine orders nobody can break it.

Look at our own planet earth as anytime the planet earth has changed the rotation to 22 hours or 26 hours. No, they under the laws of the living God Almighty. So brothers and

sisters, the first time from the high place to a low place, Lucifer fell.

Lucifer's failure was divineness to the wickedness.

And that's why Bible says continuously he's the wicked one. He's a wicked one, not only wicked and crooked. And that is why brothers and sisters, Bible talks about Ephesians chapter 6 verse 10 and  John 5:18, Ephesians chapter 6 verse 10-17 talks about the spiritual wickedness.

The spiritual wickedness and therefore, brothers and sisters, do you know this whole planet earth full of wickedness. That's why there is so much of corruption, sin, jealousy, envy, all kinds of things see the things that are happening what happened in the Paris burning of the streets, burning off the shops, is a spiritual wickedness enforced upon the human beings. The wicked one. That's why after the fail, after the fall, he was not only fall to the earth he went to the very bottom of the sheol and there he has the task, he institute the engagement of really bringing wickedness upon human beings like in the days of Noah every thought and imagination continued mostly evil even today is like that.

So , brothers and sisters, so it's very important now to understand very clearly the spiritual wickedness is upon human beings. Because of the wickedness, you are not anymore showcasing any brilliance, any brightness, any righteousness.

Daniel 12:3 says, "The voice of the chosen seed of God, the sons of God will

shine as a brightness, as a stars." 

Lucifer is a fallen star and all of his one-third of the angels. And therefore, brothers and sisters, they would try to drag people down and down. Men are human beings, are trying to go up and up but further they go up the wickedness ensured that they go down.

Let's pray.

(From Chandula Abeywickrema, LISTEN YOUTUBE HERE)

Excavation & exhibition

 mICrie 

Céramiques provenant des fouilles archéologiques 

scavi 

Keramiken der archäologischen Ausgrabungen 

anti esemplari della tigianali, soprattutto e epoche, dall'età romana negli scavi condotti Beni Ambientali e el corso di interventi di a e studiati con criteri e ate. 

no frammenti di anfore e altomedievale messi resti di pasto (ossa di ) negli strati più profondi #2, in Piazza S. Marco, 

ecenteschi e agli strati superiori. Lorenzo di Castello perti del IX-X secolo in ione locale, assieme na e medio-orientale 

ceramica graffita: ali. La maggior parte Ve il XVI secolo, occo e dall'Archivio di # dei Frari), che hanno rodotti locali, numerosi prtazione, in particolare 

restauri recenti Nuove e ancora ano la continuità e locali nei secoli el XIX secolo. 

This exibition contains some of the more interesting examples of craftwork-above all, in ceramics -Which the Superintendence for Venice's Architectural and Environmental Heritage has discovered during the course of restoration and excavation work in the city and the lagoon. 

The works date from Roman times right up to the modern day, with the earliest pieces being gragments of Roman, Late Classical and Early Medieval amphorae; these, together with various food remains (animal bones and mollusc shells), were unearthed during work in St. Mark's Square in 1902, after the collapse of the bell-tower. Other more recent - sixteenth-and seventeenth-century = pieces come from the upper layers of that excavation work. 

Excavation at the Church of San Lorenzo in Castello discovered some ninth-and tenth-century household pottery of local production, together with vases produced in the Byzantine area and the Middle East during the period from the ninth to eleventh century. 

There have also been numerous finds of ceramics with inscribed decoration: pots, bowls, dishes and jugs. Most of this material, which can be dated around the fourteenth to sixteenth century,comes from excavations at Malamocco and at the former monastery of the Frari (now the State Archives building); along with locally-produced ceramics there were also numerous fragments of vessels made in moorish spain. 

More recent excavations at the Doge's Palace, the New prisons and again the ex-monastery of the Frari reveal that there was uninterrupted and sizeable local production of ceramics right up until the early years of the nineteenth century. 

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(Venetian) Questa mostra contien alcuni dei più interessanti esempi de lavor artigianale-soprattutto, in ceramica -Che la Sovrintendenza per el Patrimonio Architetonico e Ambiental Venezia ga scoperto durante el corso dei lavori de restauro e scavi in cità e in laguna. 

 I laori i vien dai tenpi romani fin al dì de ancùo, co i primi tochi che i xe tochi de anfore romane, clasiche tarde e medievałi; questi, insieme a vari resti alimentari (ossi de animałi e scorze de mołuschi), i xe stai catài fora durante i laori in piasa San Marco nel 1902, dopo el croło del canpanil. Altri tochi pì recenti - XVI e XVII secoło = i vien dai strati superiori de chel laoro de scavo. 

 Scavi a la Chiesa di San Lorenzo a Castello hanno scoperto alcune ceramiche domestiche del IX e X secolo di produzione locale, insieme a vasi prodotti nell'area bizantina e nel Medio Oriente nel periodo dal IX al XI secolo. 

 Xe stai anche numerosi reperti de ceramiche con decorazioni inscritte: vasi, scudelle, piatti e broche. Ła major parte de sto materiałe, che pol esar datà intorno al XIV al XVI secoło, el vien da scavi a Malamocco e al ex monastièr dei Frari (deso l’edificio dei Archivi de Stato); insieme a ła ceramica prodota locałe ghe jera anca tanti tochi de vasi fati in spagna morosa. 

 Scavi pì resenti al Pałaso del Doxe, łe Nove prexon e anca l’ex-monastièr dei Frari i mostra che ghe jera na produsion locałe ininterotta e considerevołe de ceramica fin ai primi ani del XIX secoło.

(Italian) : Questa mostra presenta alcuni degli esempi più interessanti di artigianato – in particolare nel campo della ceramica – rinvenuti dalla Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici di Venezia nel corso di lavori di restauro e scavo in città e nella laguna.

I reperti spaziano dall'epoca romana fino all'età moderna. I più antichi consistono in frammenti di anfore di epoca romana, tardo-classica e altomedievale; tali reperti, insieme a vari resti alimentari (ossa di animali e conchiglie di molluschi), furono portati alla luce in Piazza San Marco nel 1902, in seguito al crollo del campanile. Dagli strati più superficiali di quello stesso scavo provengono altri oggetti, di epoca più recente (XVI e XVII secolo).

Gli scavi presso la chiesa di San Lorenzo a Castello hanno restituito ceramiche d'uso domestico di produzione locale, risalenti al IX e X secolo, accanto a vasi realizzati nell'area bizantina e in Medio Oriente tra il IX e l'XI secolo.

Sono stati inoltre rinvenuti numerosi esemplari di ceramica decorata con iscrizioni: vasi, ciotole, piatti e brocche. Gran parte di questo materiale, databile tra il XIV e il XVI secolo, proviene dagli scavi di Malamocco e dall'ex monastero dei Frari (oggi sede dell'Archivio di Stato); oltre alla produzione locale, sono stati rinvenuti numerosi frammenti di manufatti provenienti dalla Spagna moresca.

Scavi più recenti, condotti presso Palazzo Ducale, le Nuove Prigioni e nuovamente l'ex monastero dei Frari, testimoniano l'esistenza di una produzione ceramica locale, cospicua e ininterrotta, protrattasi fino ai primi anni del XIX secolo.

The New Prisons

 The New Prisons 

ioni 

Les Nouvelles Prisons 

Prigioni Nuove 

tituti governativi ella Giustizia, tenzione. nquecento, si # al di là del rio #o a funzioni trati di Notte al 

#ove, collegate al one del ponte dei are le condizioni #di, illuminate ni dell'edificio ento, e ibilità dei settori lungo i quattro interno. adizione, con chiodate ento e sulla 

l'epoca in cui pi, se non il a a blocco, Stato. 

The seat of all the functions of government and judiciary within the Republic, the Doge's Palace also housed prisons. 

In the mid-sixteenth century it was decided to build a new structure on the other side of the canal to the Palace, which would house prisons and the chambers of the magistrates known as the Notte al Criminal [Nightwatch]. Ultimately linked to the Palace by the Bridge of Sighs,the building was intended to improve the conditions for prisoners with cells that were larger and more light-filled and airy. 

However, certain sections of the new prisons fall short of this aim - particularly those sections laid out with passageways on all sides and those cells which give onto the inner courtyard of the building. In keeping with previous traditions, each cell was lined -floor, walls and ceiling -with overlapping planks of larch that were nailed in place. 

When constructed, the New Prisons were one of the first -if not the very first-examples of a purposed-built single structure intended to serve solely as a public goal. 

(Italian ) : 

Sede di tutte le funzioni di governo e giudiziarie della Repubblica, il Palazzo Ducale ospitava anche le prigioni.

A metà del XVI secolo si decise di costruire una nuova struttura sull'altra sponda del canale rispetto al Palazzo, che avrebbe ospitato le prigioni e gli uffici dei magistrati, noti come Notte al Criminale (Rinvia della Notte). Collegato al Palazzo dal Ponte dei Sospiri, l'edificio era stato concepito per migliorare le condizioni dei prigionieri con celle più ampie, luminose e ariose.

Tuttavia, alcune sezioni delle nuove prigioni non raggiungono questo obiettivo, in particolare quelle con corridoi su tutti i lati e le celle che si affacciano sul cortile interno dell'edificio. In linea con la tradizione precedente, ogni cella era rivestita – pavimento, pareti e soffitto – con assi di larice sovrapposte e inchiodate.

 Al momento della loro costruzione, le Nuove Prigioni rappresentarono uno dei primi, se non il primissimo, esempio di una struttura singola edificata appositamente per servire esclusivamente a uno scopo pubblico.

(Venetian):

Sede de tute łe funsion de goerno e de magistratura rento ła Republica, el Pałaso del Doxe el ospitava anca łe prexon. 

 A metà del XVI secoło xe stà deciso de costruir na nova strutura da l’altra parte del canałe al Pałaso, che ła gavarìa ospità łe prexón e łe càmare dei magistrati conosùi come ła Notte al Criminal [Viglia noturna]. In definitiva, cołegà al Pałaso dal Ponte dei Sospiri, l’edificio el jera pensà pa jutar łe condisión dei prigionieri co cełułe pi grande e piene de łuxe e aria. 

 Tutavia, serte sesion dełe nove prexon no łe riva a sto obietivo - in particołare quełe sesion co coragi da tuti i lai e quełe cełułe che łe va al cortiłe interno de l’edificio. In linea co łe tradisión precedenti, ogni cełuła ła jera fodrà - pavimento, muri e sofito - co plance de larice che łe se soraponeva e łe jera inciodàe. 

 Co łe xe stàe costruìe, łe Nove Prixón łe xe stà uno dei primi - se no i primi - exénpi de na strutura singoła costruìa aposta pa servir soło come obietivo publico. 

(Italian) IN QUESTA. OSCURA CARCERE SIRITROVAVA INOCEN TIVERNA GIACOMO DAIINI

(English) In this dark prison, the innocent Giacomo Daiini found himself.

The Chamber of Censor

 Censori 

The Chamber of Censor

Salle des Censeurs 

Zensorensaal 

The State Censors were set up in 1517 by Marco Foscari di Giovanni, a cousin of Doge Andrea Gritti and grandson of the great Francesco Foscari. 

The title and duties of the Censors resulted from the cultural and political upheavals that are associated with Humanism. In fact, the Censors were not judges as such, but more like moral consultants-a role that is clear from the fact that they were only two in number, and thus incapable of giving a majority ruling. Their main task was the repression of electoral fraud and the protection of the State's public institutions. On the walls hang a number of Domenico Tintoretto's portraits of these magistrates, and below the armorial bearings of some of those who held the post. 

Voi siete qui You are here Vous êtes ici Sie sind hier 

La magistrature des Censeurs a été 1517,sur l'initiative de Marco Foscari cousin du doge Andrea Gritti et pare Francesco Foscari. 

Sa dénomination et ses différentes # sont liées au climat politico-culturel :les Censeurs n'étaient pas, en fait, relevant de la magistrature assise,m organe de consultation, surtout au p comme le laisse entendre le nombre membres:s'élevant à deux seuleme étaient donc dans l'impossibilité d'e une majorité. Leur tâche consistait à les manipulations et la corruption er d'élections, et à défendre ainsi l'intég institutions publiques. 

Les murs exposent toute une série d de Domenico Tintoretto représentan magistrats et, en-dessous, les blasor qui revêtirent cette charge. 

Ponte der Sospiri

The Chamber of the State Advocacies

 Avogaria 

The Chamber of the State Advocacies 

in 

Salle de I'Avogaria 

Avogariasaal 

This particular State Advocacy department dates from 12th century. The three members -the Avogadori - were the figures who safeguarded the very principle of legality, making sure that the laws were applied correctly. 

Though they never enjoyed the status and power of the Doge and the Council of Ten, the Avogadori remained one of the most prestigious authorities in Venice right up to the fall of the Republic. They were also responsible for preserving the integrity of the city's patrician class - that is, verifying the legitimacy of the aristocratic marriages and births inscribed in the Golden Book. 

The room is decorated with paintings showing some of the Avogadori venerating the Virgin, the Risen Christ or various saints. 

L'Avogaria de Comun était une très ancienne magistrature:elle remonte en effet au Xllème siècle. 

Les trois"avogadori" avaient pour tâche de défendre le principe de légalité, autrement dit de veiller à l'application correcte de la loi. Les "avogadori"n'atteignirent jamais le prestige ni le pouvoir des Dix, mais ils constituèrent, jusqu'à la chute de la République,une des magistratures jouissant de l'une des plus grandes autorités. Ils surveillaient en outre la pureté du corps aristocratique,autrement dit la légitimité des mariages et des naissances des patriciens inscrits dans le Livre d'or. 

Dans cette salle se trouvent les portraits de certains "avogadori"en état de dévotion devant la Vierge, devant Jésus-Christ ressuscité ou différents saints. 

Die Avogaria de Justizbehörde wi Namen feststelle Gemeindezeitrau Die Aufgabe der Prinzipien der Le Anwendung der Wenn auch die A die Macht des Ze doch eine der eir bis zum Sturz de Auẞerdem wach# Adligen Familien der Hochzeiten Goldenen Buch s Hier sehen wir ei Ergebenheit vor auferstandenen 

Voi siete qui You are here Vous êtes ici Sie sind hier 

Sala dello Serigno

Inside the Chamber of the State Advocacies

 (Latin) 

RIMUM RSEMPER ANTE OMNLATA 

NTEE 

CHARITATE DIFFINIATIS:NEMINEM 

NDEMNETIS ANTE VERUM,ET JUSTU 

DICIUM;NULLUM JUDICETIS SUSPITIO 

NIS ARBITRIO:SED PRIMUM PROBAT 

STEA CHARITATIVAM SENTEN TIAM 

FERTE : ET QUOD VOBIS NO VULTIS 

TERI:ALTERI FACERE NOLITE

(English)

Above all else, let your actions be defined by charity. Do not condemn anyone before a true and just judgment; do not judge anyone based merely on suspicion. Rather, first examine the matter, then deliver a verdict rooted in charity. And do not do to another what you would not wish to be done to yourselves.

The Coffer Room

 The Coffer Room 

Salle du Coffret 

Kastensaal

The Venetian nobillty as a caste came into existence because of the"closure" of admissions to the Great Council in 1297: however, it was only in the sixteenth century that formal measures were taken to introduce restrictions that protected the status of that aristocracy: marriages between noblefolk and commoners were forbidden, and greater controls were set up to check the validity of aristocratic titles, etc. 

The enforcement of these restrictions came within the duties of the Avogaria di Comun, which was also responsible for drawing up the Golden Book, which registered the baptismal vows of each new-born patrician (if a baptism was not so registered, the aristocrat concerned risked finding himself excluded from the Great Council and thus from any role in the city's political life). It later became compulsory for each aristocrat to produce a marriage certificate before the Avogaria, irrespective of the social status of his wife. 

There was also a Silver Book, which registered all those families that not only had the requisites of"civilisation" and"honour" but could also show that they were of ancient Venetian origin: such farmilies furnished the manpower for the State bureaucracy and particularly the chancellery within the Doge's Palace itself. The Golden and Silver Books were kept in a chest (scrigno) in this room, inside a cabint that also contained all the documents proving the legitimacy of claims to be inscribed therein. The cabinet which one sees here nowadays extends around three sides of a wall nlche: lacquered in white with gilded decorations, it dates from the eighteenth century.

La classe noble vénitienne est née de la "serrata" du Grand Conseil de 1297 mais ce n'est que plus tard, au début du XVlème siècle, que l'on décida d'opérer une série de restrictions pour protéger l'aristocratie: on interdit les marlages entre des patriciens et des personnes appartenant à des classes sociales différentes, on contrôla plus sévèrement les titres de ablesse, etc. C'était I'Avogaria di Comun qui était chargée de cette matière, ainsi que de la mise à jour du Livre d'or des naissances, dans lequel étaient enregistrés les actes de baptêmes des patriciens:c'est pourquoi toute personne non régulièrement inscrite risquait de se retrouver exclue de la noblesse et donc ne pouvait accéder au Grand Conseil ni à l'activité politique. Tous les patriciens furent ensuite également obligés de présenter à l'Avogaria leur certificat de mariage,quelle que fût la condition sociale de l'épouse. 

Il existait en outre un Livre d'argent où étaient répertoriées les familles qui, outre leur"civilité" et leur"honorabilité" pouvaient s'enorgueillir d'une ancienne origine vénitienne:ces familles fournissaient à l'Etat les cadres de la bureaucratie, à commencer par la Chancellerie ducale. 

Le Livre d'or et le Livre d'argent étaient gardés dans un coffret conservé dans cette salle, à lintérieur d'une armoire qul contenait aussi tous les documents inhérents à la légitimité des titres. 

L'armoire que l'on voit aujourd'hui date du XVIlème siècle et elle occupe les trols côtés d'une niche. Elle est laquée de blanc et ses décorations sont en or.