A Thesis On God's Actions.

[Endovelicus 613]

To first define God, we have to define how the Almighty acts. First thing we need to know, He rarely show himself directly, He either sends an Aengul or He uses your moral sense, to do the right thing. Only to those who are worthy, like the prophets (Blessed be their names) have felt the presence of God.

 

Since God does not show Himself, he uses either mortals or Immortals to do his will, by blessing a faithful or cursing the heretics and the heathens. An example of God’s blessing is the schismatic war in which God blessed those that were doing his will (Blessed be the souls of the martyrs that died defending the Holy Mother Church) with his wrath, for example the brave Vladov men and woman and Amyas men. Another example of God’s blessing is the blessing of the tongue, where God blesses those that carry his cross and preach abroad with golden tongues, not only does he bless the missionary but he also blesses whomever is listening with the opportunity of accepting His grace.

 

God’s actions can be roughly based around to aspects, Ira Dei and Misericordiae Dei, which means God’s wrath and God’s mercy. God blesses those of God will that swiftly take out the his enemies with his wrath and zealotry, while he blesses those that carry his cross with his charisma and his charity. But, God also blesses those that do not carry a sword or carry a cross, God blesses those humble peasants that work with a place in the Fourth Skie, with bountiful harvests and an happy life. Ira Dei is also to punish those who disrespect him, be that a peasant, King or even priest. It can come in many ways, plague, pests on the crop fields, drought or any other disaster. God is merciful but do not tread on God. God is like a parent, he rewards but he can also punish.

 

There are also Dei Probat, which means God’s tests, where God throws a challenge at you so you may prove worthy, be that a small obstacle in your life or even disease, like leprosy. But do not take this as Ira Dei because if you sucumb to it God is merciful to you, if you sucumb to Leprosy God elevates you to an higher skie, or makes you last less time in the Second skie.

 

By: Father Johan of Siegrad, Pentarch of the Most Holy Synod.

 

[Elindor 666]

There is an unsigned parchment upon a church doorstep.

 

By what compass, then, must one journey upon a mortal life held by gravity to the land of Athera? God blesses or curses as he can judge reasonable, but who can know the mind of God? By what logic can we, of restricted knowledge and limited understanding, comprehend the path which He has ordained as Right and True?

 

Assumptions are a thing of folly. For one man believes himself to do the will of God as he dons his chestplate and marches in to battle. And the receiving of God's Wrath comes not upon him, but upon his wife who is left widowed. And how like the priestly tongue of gold appears the snake's forked tongue! Both speak words of light and flattery, but one leads to certain death. Can mortal man entrust his walk to the words spoken by he who "represents the church"? Any deity's power is to be misconstrued at the hands of political men. That is a statement of fact, observed of the many political groups who arise in representation of an aengul. Perhaps not the whole. But it only takes one scorpion amidst a herd of sheep to poison the whole flock.

 

Where looketh then, mortal man? To what doth he incline his ear? The learned and wise persist into old age by observing the falls of others and walking more safely. But when God calls upon a storm to rain down in thunderous wroth, the safe old man is not there amidst its righteous anger, he is shrunken away in shelter. And has not the word from golden tongues declared that he who declines to take part in the actions of God is as one against His will? So then, does the learned and wise have any greater understanding than the young and reckless? For undoubtedly God calls some to recklessness in pursuance of His intended path.

 

Does mortal man hear word himself, see visions of Aenguls to guide him? Or are all men birthed, perhaps, with an inner voice of God.

 

Be still, O mortals, and know thyself. Hear the words of your mind and learn the voice of your thoughts. For assuredly this small voice speaks not as the voice of lusts that chases its own desires. Be still, O blessed ones who walk within the realm of mortals. Take quiet and hush the noise without. Let the whisper rise from within. Hear its beckon. Obey its call. Be still, O vessels of valor, whose steps carve out the way of righteousness. Hear the voice and write it down. Write it plainly so that any may read. For this day there is little assurance of the intent of God, but tomorrow will be as we will mould it. Our children need not query the ways of God, or wander in darkness at His Will. If we are but still and heed the whisperings, and make the words plain upon tablet and parchment.

 

One word alone is but a madman's folly. But many collected together show underlying reasoning. You may overlook the voice within you, but your voice is needed to hear the choir of God's command. If there is any way fit to navigate God's path, it is collective.

[Sultan 3953]

"No being can define God or define Gods actions to presume so is nothing more than act of sacrilege. God cannot be defined he is the almighty."  

[Knox213 10]

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