Intergalactic Summit

We must, however, always take the greatest care to measure the Deceiver's influence upon ourselves and our peers. For Ego is the condition of all men and women, and even the best among us falter along the way. The purest of men is still, in the end, a mortal man, for we are condemned to this existence to endure all its trials, unlke the Sefrim beyond the Gates of Paradise who remain with the Divine. It is not until the very moment of death that the light of the spirit defeats the darkness within the mortal vessel, and becomes free to ascend.

This transformation upon death is only possible for the soul of a vessel that has lived a pure life and overcome all its great trials on the Path of Righteousness. For those who die in ignorance or rejection of Faith, the destination is veiled to the soul, weighted as it is by its vessel's impure life. Thus the soul is condemned to wander the great Ocean, separate from Divinity. Without the courage for the ignorant to rise and question all they've known since they could crawl, to leave their false material obsessions behind, they can never transform to purity. Ignorance is a forgivable sin, and though their soul will not transform upon its vessel's death, they will eventually find their way through the veil to An-Nuar.

But there is no sin greater than knowing Truth and turning from it. Feeling An-Nuar's presence and then rejecting it in favor of the false desires the Ego worships is unforgivable, and any soul so unfortunately trapped within such a vessel is forever lost to Paradise, and will wander the endless Ocean for all eternity. It is not sin to destroy the ignorant vessels, nor is it sin to cleanse that which intentionally denies the purpose of the soul. The death of any mortal man is not a thing to be saddened over, for nothing has actually been lost. Every time a hollow vessel is destroyed, it allows God's Light to shine all the brighter. An-Nuar fills the void with holy Light with the death of every unfaithful human.

All around the faithful, there can be found signs of spiritual depridations, of false gods and beliefs, and all manner of vile practices that accompany such depravities. The Deceiver's Empire stretches over all known space, touching every star and the soul of every human being living under their light. The Ego of humanity holds sway over vast swaths of this world, veiling the Light from its rightful recipients. But this Evil is a temporary thing, destined only to exist until the force of Correction falls upon it in measure equal to its wrongness, and with so great a degree of Evil as currently exists, there can by necessity only be as great a cleansing to remove its taint. When the time comes that even Angels Lose Their Way, the great Ark shall come through the Gate To Paradise, bringing salvation for all those who remain filled with God's Light, and across the Ocean of Lost Souls they shall be carried through to Heaven.

U need a big glass of Quafe! Less filling! No caleries! Great taste!

It is nice to see a concise presentation of some aspect of your faith, Koronakesh. It is pleasantly surprising to take a glimpse at the forgivable and the damning within your faith, and in particular, ignorance. Of course the line between willful rejection and simple ignorance is somewhat hard to distinguish at times. None the less it is a comforting thought to know that the ignorant are not completely beyond the embrace of the Divine's Light.

There are however some parts of your treatise that prompt me to attempt to dig further, to examine and question. I'll try to proceed in sequential order of each instance appearing in your own writings but I might wander from time to time. With that said I'll begin with the notion creation itself was centered around man. It is a profound thing to consider the love the Divine has for mortal men to be so strong that the cosmos was created to be at once our wondrous gift and our grave responsibility. Suffice it to say, I am not sure I agree with that concept. On the surface such a belief lends itself to the appearance of the most deeply seated arrogance. Arrogance in turn breeds entitlement and lessens the chances for compassion and patience of those that are wavering in their struggles to remain righteous. Was the Divine, in it's perfect wisdom, truly crafting a universe solely suited to test and temper the steel of faith? I do not know, but my heart whispers to me that it cannot be so.

Other similar doubts and questions come to mind from that point and while I could probably muddle through in some detail about each, there is one commonality between nearly all of them, including the one I've just listed. The arrogance of believing creation is centered around mankind leads to all sorts of terrible conclusions when we think about the possibility of something that isn't mankind. Yes, this is indeed taking a turn toward the question of "Would aliens have souls?" It is an important question in my opinion, but I do not solely mean to bring up that point, but also the point of the Sefrim themselves. What of their souls? If the Sefrim do not have the benefit of creation to test themselves, how is their soul made pure? Perhaps they do not fall victim to the deprivations of the Ego as we do...but then wouldn't that mean that they are untestable? Without a chance to fail no success is truly worthwhile...so if they cannot fall then they cannot be pure either?

If it is the duty of the faithful to bring more into the Light of the Divine, then surely that charge would extend to the Sefrim as well. And if the Divine made the Sefrim without the capacity to Sin, without the capacity to fall into shadow...in some sense one could argue it is mankind's duty to expose the Sefrim to corruption so that they might be tested and purified as well. Perhaps the answer lies in another direction and situation. Perhaps creation isn't designed to test humanity, perhaps humanity is the test for another of the Divine's creations.

He is a well known Equillibrium of Man member or auxiliary. I'm surprised you didn't know Sepherim. There are tons of wanted warrants in Amarr space for him and his people. Also CONCORD wants a piece of the pie also supposedly. You're also very right on him being dangerous.

I have always worn my faith openly without attempts at misdirection. However, I will forgive your mistaken perceptions of disguise and consider you properly enlightened here and will not offer further disparagement on the subject.

Informing people of the Theology of something, totes gives them stuff they can use to like, form counter-arguments.

Thus, for every point outlined by the EoM here, a counter-point can be made from the Scriptures.

Oh, I've just not been on the IGS so much. It gets silly at times.

"Humor" is no substitute for intelligence or wit. You're just lazy, and rather than inform yourself to the truth you posted an ignorant summation to stir ****. It always astounds me how intelligent Goons cannot be.

It's a bit beyond that, even, Lou. You can interpret organized religion as an institution of social regulation, created by humans in an attempt to fuse the codification of social rules and regulations with the gut feelings of spirituality we all experience.

Which means that the OP is complaining that the assumptions of the particular social system in question have been destroyed long ago. True or not, it is a rather useless complaint to make, since for our technological prowess, we still have not found any path around the relativistic obstacles to reversing the flow of time. I don't think even God himself will ever break that one.

On the other hand, he does have a point in that the Amarrian society might have started to derail a long time ago...