I love the 36 Lessons and take great pleasure in solving the riddles after repeated reading. But quite a few sermons are just so baffling that I haven't the slightest idea where to begin with the puzzles, and Sermon 26 is one of them.

But today I suddenly realized that the English language has 26 letters (yes, I'm a foreign s'wit), and Sermon 27 is the Scripture of the Word, so the Pocket Cabal could be a dictionary (a book of spellings - a spell book). And number 26, the Rogue Plane, is twice 13 - two serpents. Think of a serpent as a vector - two vectors form a coordinate then we have a plane; but the serpent is unpredictable, so the plane is a rogue one. But that's pretty much all I can think of. And now it's itching, because I thought I was onto something but I'm still unable to understand a thing about Sermon 26. So could someone be so kind as to explain it to me?

These are my questions:

1. Does "a tenuous sense-fabric" have some special metaphorical meaning?

2. What's the deal with the walking dwarf and its sickness and explosion?

3. Why would he run "when the magic would fail"? What would happen if he didn't run?

4. The slaves in the story, do they refer to all mortal users of magicka, or just a certain group?

5. What is the litany fiends?

6. The Grabbers from the Adjacent Place, who are they? And from which Adjacent Place are they from? Do they have anything to do with Lyg?

7. The giant bug, is it a pun for something like an error in a computer program?

8. The dome-head demon, what is it?

9. "Then he picked up Muatra by the beard (?) and left the ghostly hemisphere of the dome-head demon. On its boundaries, Vivec placed a warning and a song (?) of entrance that contained errors (?) in it. With mock bones of half-dead (?) Muatra he created the tent poles of a fortress-theory (?) and fatal languages (destruction magic?) were imprisoned for all time."

10. "'I have hidden secrets (?) in my travels here and made a likeness of Muatra to ward against the unwise. Under this dome, the temporal myth is no longer man (?).'"

11. What does "the realm of apology" in Sermon 27 mean?

I know my questions are many and vague, but the thing is, I don't even understand the text well enough to put forward a specific question. However, I'd be glad enough if you could just answer one or two of them for me. Thanks!