Thesis on Church Sovereignty

[Altiak 1648]

THE NEED FOR CHURCH SOVEREIGNTY

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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I am the Most High, and in pursuit of My Virtue, I bid thee, My faithful, this: Thou shalt not judge the sufficiency of thy Virtue, be it great or small, for all magnitudes fall short of Me.

 

I have had much time to interpret the last High Pontiff’s ‘revelations’, and I too have seen the light. I have read the words of his proclamations, and by the virtue of GOD I have surmised that the failing of these revelations is vast and of a great magnitude. Already, his first revelation - that of a Vicar of GOD who spits on the synod by appointing a successor of his own choosing - been righteously repealed. Already has the Emperor, whom Daniel III declared equal in stature to GOD almighty, found it prudent to rip up throw this revelation to the wind! So too has this new High Pontiff, by naming an elf to his synod, cast aside the third. Surely then, we must call into question the validity of this former Pontiff’s final, second ‘revelation.’

 

Our former, failed shepherd - who himself acted more like the wolf we were to be protected against - drafted his second revelation on the basis of his own heritage. In doing so, he lambasted our true mission. It is often a precarious affair when the representative of the Creator meddles in secular matters. Such matters need to be resolved with care and patience, with the virtues our heavenly father teaches. Daniel III’s actions shunted these virtues, subjecting himself, and the rest of us by proxy, to the whims of a secular ruler. He has forced the sin that stains his conscience upon us as well!

 

Since time immemorial our Faith, no matter the form it has taken, has strived to remain separate from the conflict of kingdoms, to remain separate from the affairs of politics. When the High Pontiff Owyn put these matters above those of the Church, he shattered the Faith of many, and the reputation of our beloved Church. His actions, selfish, greedy, and nepotistic as they were, cost us much. Even in times of immense strife - when in Athera the Heartland states remained fractured and disunited - the Church remained neutral until the Faith itself was threatened by schismatics who hoped to destroy its very body. Only then did the Church involve itself.

 

Daniel III, who swore to abandon his familial ties and his fealty upon ascension to this blessed place, has traded the sovereignty of our Church, the neutrality that has allowed our survival and our strength, simply so that his brother can rule over us! This blatant nepotism does not cease there, either. In earlier years, the High Pontiff saw fit to have his son, who he empowered with various positions in our own Church (simply for his relations, and through no merits of his own), granted a Viscounty. This Viscount, who was also named Lord Vicar despite his youth, is a flagrant display of how far Daniel III went in the destruction of our impartiality.

 

I ask you, clergymen, how can we allow this to go unquestioned? When GOD is paramount and above all others, how can his representatives upon Vailor - his Vicar - be chained and restrained to a secular ruler? No matter the heritage of his blood, how can we allow ourselves to place the Church of the Lord beneath a layman. A pious and zealous ruler he may be, but to expect homage from a Vicar of GOD is unacceptable.

 

Let us, as we cast aside the first, false, revelation, also destroy this one and restore the sanctity of our Church. Let us raise up our Church again, beholden only to GOD. We shall not place any man above the Lord.

 

And I am the Lord God without peer, and My greatness is the only greatness,  and My eternity is the only eternity.

 

Maurice Gradic

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