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- Oct 31, 2015
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Introduction
The Puritan Sect is an ideology that surfaced in the Unionist Clergy only recently, idolizing the virtues of Man while vehemently hounding the burdens of vice. Puritans advocate for the mass cleansing of Man and all other creatures to aid the Spirit in the creation of Providence, an idyllic utopia on Aloria in which all life is permanently sustained and the line between the secular and nonsecular is erased. In the pursuit of this, the Puritans view that service to Providence divides the pure and impure, and the impure, where conversion fails, must be brought to justice.Puritans view all sin, great or small, to be equivocally severe: only the absolute purest of souls can be left on Aloria for Providence to be perfect. Ever ardent, part of purity is constant, fervent service in devotion to the Spirit: this means that to contribute to the Great Way is a necessity. To aid this, the Puritan Clergy will give it's devoted Fellowship missions; conversions, celebrations, and objectives to complete. These missions may vary from temporal duty to spiritual perusal, but they must be done. To fail a mission is tolerable, but to not try at all is to give the Spirit only apathetic indolence, which is a serious offense. All creatures are welcome to the Puritan Sect, no matter their denomination: as long as they subject to purification, and strive to purify.
Interpretations
First Creed
- The Spirit exists in transcendence; immaterially all-powerful, but enforces its worldly will via the Trinity, through its living vessel, and through providence. Those who fail to serve the three in equivocal severity are recreants. Emphasis is put on providence, or the Great Way, which is the Spirit's plan to convert Aloria into a nonsecular paradise, to which all creatures must serve their part in the steady cleansing and purifying of mind, body and soul throughout Aloria, from the clutches of vice, fallibility and sin.
- The Emperor is the temporal arm of the Spirit destined to guide the secular and nonsecular. As its living vessel, imperial prerogative is divine. If an Emperor's efficacy fails, the fault is the failing spirituality of Man, which is weakening the Spirit's conviction for Mankind. The bloodline is preordained, though the method of succession is irrelevant as the Spirit is seen to determine that process.
- The Spirit's temporal grasp has been fragmented into vestiges, which remain in all living previous Emperors. No certain vessel is determined, but Alexander I's legitimacy as a divine ruler still stands, though it is feared that should he die, without the Spirit's centralized and united hand guiding succession, a calamity may befall Humanum.
Second Creed
- To achieve universal providence for all souls, all action on the behalf of Spirit and Man is justified. Military might of the Union is a necessary evil to fight the resistance for vice and sin. Heretics and infidels not imperially recognized must be purified and converted, or forced to embrace the Spirit's judgement for reincarnation.
- A life not lived for the Way is a life wasted. A death not made embracing the Spirit is a waste of life.
- Marriage exists to produce offspring. A marriage without children is debauched and wasteful, and a child without married parents is a failure to properly upraise children. Five children is the standard for every household.
- Marriage is between two people, strictly, and intimacy is kept solely in the marital union. Same-sex relations are not strictly forbidden as long as they provide parentage for offspring, regardless of blood relation, on a case by case basis. Women are maternal figures in a marriage because their sacred role in the Great Way is the exclusive privilege to directly produce children.
Third Creed
- Herons are not equivocal spiritually to the Trinity, but are nonetheless worshipped for their temporal service toward providence. Herons should be worshipped (but for worldly guidance, not spiritual pursuit) but the number of Herons should be strictly minimized and reserved for only the purest temporal servants of the Spirit.
- Herons are grounded in secular authority. They have no divine influence, but they are nonetheless worshipped and considered of exclusivity for their profane services to the Spirit.
- Living Herons cannot exist, because their loyalty and conclusive contribution toward providence cannot be judged until after their death.
Fourth Creed
- The afterlife is providence; the pure, perfect world created by the Spirit, with Man as a tool. All those who do their part and aid the Spirit in its idyllic creation are judged and then ushered to providence as a reward. This world's creation is called the Great Way.
- Part of providence's perfection stems from the purity of all beings within it. Unpure, evil, carnal or sinful souls are rejected and their existence revoked by the Spirit, who originally willed them into existence. All creatures must strive to become Human (by devout service to the Trinity and Man) through reincarnation, as when providence is created, all nonhumans will be cast into nihility, and only Humans will be judged.
- Only Ailor are Human, and all other beings nonhuman.
- Nonhumans have until providence to contribute to the Great Way and show devout subservience to the Spirit and to Man, to be reincarnated as Human. All nonhumans are souls that are harangued with vice and sin from past lives, but redemption is possible.
- Reincarnation ends upon providence, when all mortals are conjoined with the Spirit and transcend carnal mortality. Reincarnation is the current phase of the Spirit's judgement toward souls and their service to the Way. Nonhumans, then, must have previously failed the Spirit, and sinful recreants of Human society today will be reincarnated as nonhumans.
Fifth Creed
- While conversion is the penultimate goal, faiths that inadvertently serve the Way are tolerable for merely misperceiving divinity. Only the Spirit's vessel, the Emperor, can determine which religions serve the Way, and which are spiritually malignant.
- Public display of other faiths is strongly disapproved of, and should be kept to enclosed communal or private areas. The act of active conversion, or attempted conversion, of Unionists toward a pagan or heathen faith, ought to be strictly forbidden.
- A heretic is one who contradicts the Creeds, refutes any of the branches of Trinity, or is nominally a Unionist but practically refuses or opposes the teaching and tenets of Theomar's word.
- Void worship is the demonic corruption of life, and subversion of the Spirit's way. The Void is the essence of corrupt villainy, and destroys all good in its wake.
Sixth Creed
- The Synod should exist with institutional reforms to purify the integrity of its clergy.
- The High Reverend should act as the Synod's figurehead in a practical representative capacity, and the Supreme Reverend should oversee the Synod and the Empire's Union establishment.
- Unless the Bull is repealed by the High Reverend, previous Synodical Bulls are not considered null just because the High Reverend who introduced them has been replaced.
Seventh Creed
- Humans are all flawed, with natural desire to commit carnal sin and an incessant pulling from demonic or subversive forces to corrupt the inherent spiritual purity of Man. The Seventh Creed calls for endless strive for purification; individual and collective advancement, of Mankind's spirituality, ethics and unison. Predominantly, the purification of Mankind from corruption, vice, and sin.
- While all species can devote themselves to the Trinity and Man, only Humans can transcend and purify. All souls can reincarnate into Humanum, but transcendence itself indicates judgement and approval from the Spirit itself, and acceptance into providence by the Great Way, which can only be adopted as a Human.
- Transcendence is strictly theological spiritual and moral purification, which permits a Human's acceptance into the afterlife, by adopting the Spirit's ideal form of Man, devoid of sin.
Eighth Creed
- The Great Way is the Spirit's ulterior plan to cleanse Aloria of corruption, vice, and see the tortured, sinful souls of the nonhuman either brought to the light, or erased entirely. The Trinity is the tool in which the Spirit uses to achieve this plan. When all sin and material corruption is removed, and all that is left is spiritual, pure and subservient devotion to the good Spirit, a paradise of immaterial unity and peace is instituted on Aloria, as divine providence.
- Paradise, or providence, is the pure utopia in which the Spirit intends for Humanum, and all souls on Aloria.
- All souls will transcend from their chained mortality, and join the Spirit. The world will be pure, suffering eliminated, and temporal thoughts, desires and necessities will subside for good.
Doctrine
Adherence to the Trinity, subservience to the Spirit and service to the Great Way is the only way to achieve the purity of which the Spirit deems necessary to transcend. The pure dogma acts as counsel to the everyday creature to achieve this transcendance, and to avoid spiritual nihility.- ALL should monitor the elimination of vices in oneself as well as others, as their primary service to all living souls.
- ALL should service Providence regularly both spiritually and practically, by way of meticulous prayer and virtue, and punctilious temperance and duty to their labors.
- PURITANS should cast their beliefs openly and vocalize the divine truth. Restraint or timidity of faith is intolerable—the only way to purify Man is to contribute yourself, and to not contribute is in of itself an impurity.
- PURITANS should be the most mobilized, proactive Unionists on Aloria, constantly striving to serve the Spirit in every material way possible.
- PURITANS should not tolerate recreants, apostates or heretics, and should actively seek the diplomatic conversion of these groups.
- PURITANS should be intolerant of malignant faiths such as Void Worship, and should mobilize against these groups.
- PURITANS should champion Canon Law unless specified otherwise by the Sect.
- PURITANS should seek the unending, incessant spiritual and ethical cleansing of those around them from vices such as hedonism, indolence, corruption, avarice and apostasy.
Fellowship
The Puritan Fellowship is the flock of believers and Union faithful who have made an open conviction towards the cleansing of themselves and others. As per the Puritan tenet of honest vocalization, these members proudly expose their beliefs to the public and will be expected to serve as public watchdogs for spiritual, ethical or practical violations of vice, as well as serve Providence in Sect-given missions.Coming soon
In Relation
These are groups that serve theological interests, are backed / sponsored by the Puritan Sect, or are outright branches of the ideology. Puritans ought regularly back groups in the interests of virtue as a way of servitude.Coming soon
Joining
While it doesn't take replying to this thread to formally become Puritan, you won't be added to the spreadsheet—which also means you will not receive missions or be tagged for events, neutering the IC advantages of joining the Sect. I advise you reply and adhere to this format. Note that joining this Sect means you will be held to a high standard of IC contribution and moral constitution; you'll be given opportunities and will be generally helping the spread of religious roleplay.IGN:
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