A Thesis on Favouritism

[argonian 14254]

A Thesis on Favouritism 

 

 

 

Favouritism, the proposition that only humans may ever enter the Seven Skies, is one of Canonism’s oldest and most pervasive heresies. It has been taught by many false sects from just as many diverse and disparate cultures, from Raevir Lendians to Owynists who tried to wipe the former off the map. Even today, it finds support among the faithful. The heresy’s prevalence among all the tribes of Horen does not, however, grant it any extra credence. The Church’s teaching on the matter has always been clear.

 

As Canonists, we must defer to the Church in all matters of faith and morals. It should be enough, then, for me to merely point to the fact that the Church has never taught Favouritism but has for centuries taught the opposite:

 

Catechism of the Canonist Church(first published c. 1570; revision still in use today):
‘The First Sky is the abode of virtuous pagans; humans who never received the chance to convert to Canonism but still acted morally, and any non-humans who obeyed the Virtue.’

 

Catechism of Ruskan Orthodoxy(1452):
‘Orthodoxy believes that righteous other mortal races will still receive some form of eternal satisfaction in other rungs of the Skies’

 

Sadly, there are many souls who don’t believe the Church’s teaching is enough to settle the matter. These men hold that Horen’s blessing to “wander the Seven Skies” refers to humanity’s exclusive right to enter the Seven Skies, in direct contradiction of the Church’s interpretation of the blessing:

 

Et Principia Ecclesiae Dogma:
‘Canonists interpret the gift to "wander the seven skies" as the ability to conduct in prophecy and be closest to God, particularly in the afterlife.’

 

Their interpretation of the blessing is, of course, utterly false. To demonstrate this, we need only turn to Scripture. Take the following verse for example:

 

Gospel 1:42:
’42 So the Lord was pleased to lay His favor upon the sons of His first man and woman, and he called the pair forth to reside in the Sixth Sky and give the World over to the dominion of the Sons.’

 

As is obvious from the Book of Provenance, Man and Woman were not human(for they begat all four races) and were therefore not granted Horen’s blessing(indeed, this event took place before the blessing). Therefore their ascension into the Seven Skies proves that Horen’s blessing cannot refer to exclusive entry to the Skies.

 

Nevertheless, there are still some who suggest Man and Woman were somehow human. Despite the fact they begat brothers of all four races, which no human couple could do, and despite the fact that to be human means to be one of Horen’s folk, some still insist on this error. Thankfully, even setting this error aside, Scripture provides us with another verse to completely refute Favouritism.

 

Scroll of Auspice 2:5:
‘5 Lo! The virtuous dead are descending, and at their fore are the sons of spirit, and the sons of the first man and woman.’

 

While there are those among us who may argue in futility that the Blessing of Horen somehow applied to Man and Woman, even they must admit that it did not apply to Horen’s brothers. If it did, then all races would be saved regardless in the same way their fathers were, thus utterly refuting Favouritism. But we know that it did not apply to the other brothers, which poses an equally great problem for the Favouritists. If one must have the Blessing of Horen to enter the Seven Skies upon death, then how could those three, lacking it, descend from the Skies upon the resurrection of the virtuous dead?

 

Clearly, it would be utterly impossible. Therefore this verse alone proves not only that the other races may go to the Seven Skies, as did Malin, Urguan and Krug, but also that Horen’s Blessing does not refer to salvation and instead refers to prophecy, as Canonist dogma teaches. 

 

Taking into account all this, Favouritism is a completely refuted heresy, contradicted by both dogma and Scripture in the clearest of terms. 

 

- Fr. Ailred Barclay.
 

[ReveredOwl 5639]

Dear Faithful Flock, 

            It seems that today is one of the few times that many of my public concerns have achieved a response from somebody in the clergy, sadly it is a rarity now to achieve a response to public missives. The response to my latest missive comes in the form of a thesis by Ailred Barclay in which he claims that the belief of ‘Favouritism’ is nothing short of heresy, a notion I completely dismiss. However he does little to respond to the several points I had in my missive and the analogy of the quotes from the Holy Scrolls, instead he has simply inserted a few quotes from the catechism and scrolls to try and cement his view, without explaining the context of these scrolls. 

 

He claims that Horen and Julia were not the first man and woman, this is strange for it has long been accepted that Horen and Julia were the first coupling of humanity. The Lord created four brothers, Krug, Urguan, Malin and Horen, with each their own race. The notion that there was some form of civilisation before the Lord created these four brothers is false. Let us further explore this claim in depth, for what Ailred says to be true it requires a large civilisation before them of an unknown race. A male and female of unknown races would have had to give birth to a dwarf, an orc, an elf and a human. How can this strange illusive race which we have not ever heard of, give birth to four different races and if this was the case, why then do we not see traces of this historic race and people throughout the entirety of our history and why are they not present today. I do hope, dear reader, that you can understand the nonsense that Ailred has claimed and why it is utterly false.

 

Furthermore, Ailred leans heavily upon the current catechism of the Holy Canonist Church as his crutch to support his argument against ‘favoritism’, however like I have written before, catechism can change and be re-written. In fact the catechism has been re-written since the times of Sixtus IV, then one argues, what was before the catechism? He also states that is the official church teaching that all races are permitted into the Seven Skies, he says it in a way which implies that this is absolute and has been taught since the days our Holy Church was founded when the Exalted received the four Holy Scrolls. This is not the case as teachings of the church change with every new Pontificate, so perhaps it is true that is the teaching of today’s church, but certainly not the past. For this example we turn to High Pontiff Daniel III who received a series of revelations from the Lord, one of which was that only children of Horen and Julia could enter the Seven Skies, and this is cemented in the holy scrolls. 

 

He argues that because only Horen received the blessing of the Lord via the Aengul Aeriel, that the other exalted could not ascend to the seven skies however this too is false. For it is written in the holy scrolls that Exalted Owyn ascended to the Sixth sky, alongside his father. However this idea he has created would deny the existence of the prophets and their nature and blessing by the Lord, due to their very nature they ascend to the seven skies. Any other human ascends to the seven skies after receiving the same blessing given unto Horen by Aeriel, except in the form of baptism.

 

To conclude, I reiterate my belief that only humans are granted entry into the seven skies and to deny this truth would be heresy most fowl. It is written in the scrolls themselves and I encourage all readers to read my latest missive which highlights quotes from the scrolls and analises them and their meaning which prove that the notion of ‘favoritism’ is true.

 

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/195457-qui-absconditus-est-veritas/ 

 

GOD bless all true Canonists

Friar Boniface

[argonian 14254]

“Venerable Friar,

 

I did not claim that Horen and Julia were not the first human coupling; rather I claimed that ‘Man and Woman’, both in Scripture and in theological writings, does not refer to Horen and Julia, but rather to the parents of the Four Brothers. The fact you believe the existence of the First-Wed, which is de fide and part of Gospel, is some sort of novel belief in ‘civilisation... before the four brothers’ shows just how unfamiliar you are Provenance.

 

Gospel 1:31-33, 1:40(emphasis mine):

31 And with His favor, the first man and woman prospered, and they drank the sweet water and ate of the Lord’s bounty.

32 And they remained faithful to their Creator, and did as He bid.

33 And they knew each other, bearing four sons.

…

40 The youngest was Horen, who was neither tall nor short, not frail nor fierce, and he acted with wisdom and restraint.

 

How do you propose Ex. Horen was the father of himself, Friar? 

 

Then you go on to make some strange claim that I said the other exalted could not reach the Seven Skies, which is a bizarre interpretation completely divorced from anything I either stated or implied, which I can only imagine came from some feverish misunderstanding based on your strange idea that the ‘three other brothers’ somehow refers to the ‘sons of spirit’, as if Horen’s descendants could somehow be his brothers.

 

Nevertheless, moving on, you then claim that ‘my’ teachings are based on the current catechism, and are liable to change. It is true that catechisms are fallible, and it is true that they change. But it is also true that in all those revisions, the teaching that non-humans may enter the Seven Skies has never been amended or removed, and there are no extant copies of any catechism ever published teaching otherwise. 

 

Whatever you may say of ‘fowl’ or otherwise avian heresies, the fact of that matter is that Church dogma, Tradition, and Sacred Scripture all condemn your erroneous idea that the Skies are exclusive to mankind. I also recommend you read Gospel before you ever blasphemously deny the existence of the First-Wed again.

 

Yours in Worriment, 

Fr. Ailred Barclay.”