The Dictatorship of Confusion

[Piov 2643]

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THE DICTATORSHIP OF CONFUSION

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A pastoral letter related to recent matters within the Canonist Church

 

15th of Gronna and Droba, 591 E.S. | Sun's Smile 2038

 

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Dear brethren in the faith,

 

Over the past several months, my fellow clergy and the lay faithful have rightly raised concerns that impact the life of our spiritual home, the Holy Canonist Church. Out of an urgent sense of filial obedience to our sacred tradition and to the magisterial authority that the Exalted bestowed onto us to bear witness to the faith, I pen this reflection in hopes that we might diligently work and build dialogue in the spirit of charity.

 

In our ongoing debates concerning institutional vitality and the doctrines by which our holy faith abides by, we have come to the threshold that threatens to further diminish the Church of the Ages. For all time, the Lord has sustained His people by the Word of Truth, the unbreakable bond that prophetic revelation shall lead mankind into the emanations of glory. But today, our Church is under stress, not from external forces, nor from heretical movements, nor even from the threat of secularist non-belief. Long-standing truths have been deprived of their place in our ministerial life. It is a willful neglect wounding us from within. 

 

My brother in the cloth, Father Drusco, has aptly summarized our quandary: 

From the earliest apostles to the blessed martyrs to the holy prophets, all believed in the brotherhood of Faith over all. Since the dissolution of proper Canon Law, this dream has degraded, and so too has our spiritual vitality. We are divided, confused, our dioceses empty and more destitute of guidance. We are bitter, torn up between sectarian disputes and theological rivalries, having lost sight of our common calling. The halls of our churches and seminaries are, combined, only shadows of what they once were by all accounts (Father B. Drusco, Letters from Waldemar: The State of Faith).

 

While indeed, the substance of contention is found on matters of theological interpretation, the Church has been ensnared in something fundamentally egregious. Not in centuries has she been subjected to trials of this magnitude that the very foundations of faith have been called into doubt by many across the Imperial domain. The sectarian disputes incurred from within have become the source of great uncertainty. What is undeniable is that the faithful today find it difficult to reconcile this new norm while seeing themselves as part of the community of holiness that they have always believed in. The Church is increasingly unrecognizable to us now than from the faith of our ancestors. This is an injury to the faith in the highest order. Why have we come to a point where we must ask to profess what has always been?

 

How numerous is the ambiguity that we have seen! How many gestures of inconsistency have the flock been subjected to witness! How grave is our idleness! Ideological borders that have ripped apart lineages and torn asunder fraternal camaraderie once again strike us anew: from Lucienism, Owynism, or lofty assertions of a so-called more authentic true faith (as opposed to a faith that has always been), to unfettered tolerance of magical arts and other forms of knowledge that do not originate nor form a part in God’s Will. Omitting prophecy, cordoning off sects of believers through liturgical segregation, and provincializing theologies that have been richly inherited from our forebearers has rendered a Church bereft of cohesion. We are left with a culture of “slogans” vying for legitimacy and victory at the expense of others’ devotion. But faith is not a mere slogan; it is the mark of Truth itself. It is the effusive joy that we share with our fellow man. When Truth is left to wither, or worse, when it is purposefully abandoned, our civilization suffers the scourge of disunion as found in scripture.

 

The Church of the Ages has been desecrated and her altar is profaned by the dictatorship of confusion.

 

For years, so much of the extremes have flung us from one faction to the next. The foundation offered by sacred tradition no longer provides the common footing by which we engage in charity and truth. The liturgy has been made a stage for personal whims, provocative proclamations, and spiritual disenfranchisement, straying away from the true message of the scriptures. We must heed Owyn’s admonition to the Godwinites: “You have traded the glory of the Lord GOD without peer for the imperfections of men” (Spirit 1:10). The authority of the Immaculate Throne must guard against exercising a magisterium rife with ambiguity. Confusion creates disunion. Disunion distances us from virtue. Without virtue, we cannot know Truth, for Truth is the Will of the Godhead.

 

Such forces we witness have made the confusion permissible to fester within the Church’s ministry. It is us who must be accountable to the Truth first, lest we fall astray to the inverted world offered by Iblees. The Scrolls reveal to us that the works of the Deceiver prevail when the people of God are entrapped by confusion and disharmony: “The struggles of this world seemed thrice as great without the holiness of Horen and his companions, and many did not attend to the Word of GOD, not even the heirs of the first prophet. And again, Iblees was tempted by the distance of man from GOD, and he ascended the emanations of glory at great pain, maintaining his hatred and doubt” (Gospel 5:31-32). Incoherence is the poison that weakens the spirit of Truth. How the Seven Skies above weep at this travesty!

 

However, we already have our goal: to bring forth the salvation of all, to consecrate the world through the Waters of Gamesh, and to give way for the virtuous world yet to come. The Cross of salvation stands in a world that is constantly turning. So what then is our charge? Put simply, it is to build consensus, to show mercy, to dispel confusion, and to acclaim the precepts that the Church of the Ages has always maintained. For if we strive toward this goal together, we are told through Sigismund’s revelation that, “[N]o place is forbidden to those perfected in the eyes of God, for the wicked are vanquished forever” (Auspice 3:10). We must be purveyors of truth in a world dictated by confusion. We must be bearers of charity in a world lacking mercy.

 

Truth is the ultimate source of freedom from confusion. I urge all of us in the clergy and in the laity to remain steadfast amidst the confusion. I plead for us to reaffirm the Sixtus IV Catechism of 1570 and the conventions of precedent enshrined through Canon Law, to repudiate grave error in obfuscating various precepts regarding prophetic revelation, and to renew our commitment to celebrate the liturgy in a meaningful way with our local communities. The Catechism unambiguously states:

 

The Exalted are the four prophets of Canonism, who are the fulfillment of a promise by God to humanity in the first days. Horen was the first human, who sired three sons by his wife Julia. These three sons failed in their assigned tasks in certain ways which led to the spread of sin and strife. Merciful God, however, promised Horen that he would sire three “sons of spirit”, who would repair the damage done by his three sons of flesh. These sons were the Exalted Owyn, Exalted Godfrey, and Exalted Sigismund.

 

Canonists embrace the truth of the Holy Scrolls which were delivered by the Exalted, and the Church which was established by Exalted Owyn. Canonists worship only one god, the God of the Holy Scrolls, and accept only the High Pontiff as inheritor of the spiritual leadership of the Exalted. By following the laws set out for them in the Scroll of Virtue, and by obeying the Church which guards those laws, Canonists seek to honor God. 

 

This is our creed. These actions are consistent with what the Church has always taught. It is not asking anymore than what we have already been ordained to profess.

 

I write this, ever a humble servant, in fidelity to the Holy Canonist Church and to those entrusted to the leadership of her mandate in this mortal plane. I dedicate these reflections not in a spirit of furthering dissent for the sake of itself, but to place our trust in those vested in the spiritual guidance of God’s people. In hopeful obedience to the rightful authority of the Successor to the High Priesthood in the Order of Evaristus and Clement, may we take refuge in the words of Horenic virtue and pray for a renewed sense of fidelity to our sanctuary: “I am the Lord GOD without peer, and My trials are the holy trials, and My cure is the virtuous cure, and all the reliefs of the Virtue are open to the righteous forbearer” (Virtue 5:10). 

 

May the Will of the Godhead always prevail.

 

In charity,

 

Fr. Basim Ardov