Reflections on the Innocence of Man

[Narthok 9213]

Reflections on the Innocence of Man

 

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There is an oft bandied phrase regarding innocence, in essence “innocence until proven guilty” a term that may have some utility when applied in a secular fashion. Though I would note that this  term is generally wielded in a context of ‘rights’ as if man was entitled to anything at all. However, the topic of rights must be addressed elsewhere, herein I wished to discuss the concepts of innocence and subsequently of sin in the sacred sense. Within the Fatherist tradition our understanding of sin, and by extension its root finds its foundation within the sacred texts, specifically our conception of creation. Those familiar with scripture will know of what I speak, but for the laity and the unfamiliar the passage I cite is generally translated as follows. 

 

“His very presence tearing the blackness of the ancient heavens asunder, many an Old God fell to ruin, their corpses smote by the violence of the Dawnlord’s birth.1 As each serpent of the dark morass fell, engulfed in an inferno they coalesced below.2 Each ruined carcass contributing to a growing mass of inflamed, foul flesh.3 As the Dawnlord reckoned with his very existence he looked down upon what his birth had wrought.4 Thus came about the first light of the lord, the first day.5 “ -The Dawning 2 : 1 - 5

 

The Dawning lays forth the day of creation, following the Father’s birth his flames combined with the savaged ruins of slains demons to conceive the mortal realm. As the Father’s essence fell to earth mingling with the clay to conceive the first mortal life. 

 

“The Father beheld what had been wrought.1 A great darkened mass spilling foul humours unto the air.2 These humours, mixed with the glowing incandescence of the Dawnlord gave life to the inanimate clay of this realm.3 Thus the first mortals were born, conceived of the soil, the darkness, and the light.4 They rose and began to wander the realm.5 Gazing upon the wreckage he had wrought he was stricken by the presence of small fire, trapped within flesh, streaked with darkness and rot.6  “-The Dawning 3 : 1 - 6

 

It is here at the first record of mortal life that its constituent elements are made known to us, the faithful. While those conceived as ‘immortal’ are generally understood to be beings of pure essence, constituting a singular principle such as ‘greed’ or ‘justice’ The mortal contrarily is a creature of mixed essences, though the concentrations of said essences vary from race to race. However, it is without refute that all mortals constitute mixtures of soul, darkness and light. This concoction being the result of our flesh being formed from the earth, a place composed of the countless demons felled by the Father in the chaos preceding the first day. 

 

It is with this scriptural understanding that we children of the Father draw our conceptions of sin and man. Man and to a greater extent all mortals are inherently sinful, their flesh being composed of the soil which is in turn composed by the countless decomposed demons slain by the Father on the day of his birth. 

 

Wielding this knowledge we can confidently declare that no mortal can be understood as ‘innocent’. All mortals capable of salvation are born sinful, their physical bodies composed in the most fundamental sense of sin and darkness. It is from this composition that the countless mortal vices stem. 

 

Whilst sin is innate to man and vice is an extension of one’s corrupt flesh each and every mortal is called to salvation through labours. Hence the Fatherist teaching of virtue over vice comes to the fore. Mankind is not liberated by pleasure but is chained by it, it is only through unceasing discipline and effort that one is able to shatter the chains of vice that so deeply bind them and ascend to virtue. This unceasing battle is the driving force behind the faith’s first tenet (Justicar 1)

 

 “Amongst you, and within you will dwell the shadow. In your hearts, in your minds, in your souls. These shadows will bleed to your words, your deeds. I task my sons and daughters to look inward, to cleanse the foulness within themselves. Suffer not the Unworthy.” (Justicar 1)

 

There is no ‘reconciliation’, no ‘contrition’ salvation is only found through unceasing labours. Day by day one chisels away the blackness from their very soul, forging themselves into a being of virtue over years of discipline and labour. It is through the rejection of the demon, of the witch, of their foul temptations to gluttony, to greed, to cowardice. Thus is the expectation laid upon each child of the Father. 

 

It is in the Father’s infinite mercy that we are offered some modicum of salvation from this degenerate fallen world. Through his embrace, which he is under no obligation to offer, we are given the merest chance of salvation from an eternity in the abyss. Thus, while all mortals possess free will and are capable of rejecting the Father’s mercy and embracing sin, it is only through the Father, and the exercise of our own will that we are able to submit to the divine Father and be saved.

 

Sin is innate, present from birth

The sins of the flesh can only be overcome with labours

The only salvation is through the Father

 

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Theoderic

 

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