Divinity of The One, Part I

The Divine Nature of the One God and His creation.

FOREWORD: The Church of the One has since its very inception used imagery and allegories to convey its teachings, trying to put words to the indescribable majesty and grandeur of the Maker of All. During some times and in some places, this inability to precisely describe the One and His tenets has eroded what once was a consensus of the Church. Schisms arose within the Faith, each of His congregations manifesting their worship in different ways with different rituals, prayers, and oblations. This division, some would claim, has hurt the One's Church, diminished it, and eroded its founding principles.

I claim this great multiplicity of worship merely reflects the immense variance amongst His followers -- there is room for His presence in every culture, in every people, and in every temple. We are all the One's children, and as such all have the right to worship Him. And although each supplicant has their own individual belief of the One's station within the Divine Firmament, I shall herein attempt to explain one of the more traditional views of His origins and the mandates which He bestowed upon His beloved children. These are the beliefs I subscribe to, the truths I hold as sacred. And if in my mortal imperfection I remain unable to entirely and fully grasp God's glory, my Faith remains the bastion of which my weary soul finds relief in.

THE CREATION: In the beginning, there were two infinitely vast forces -- the endless absence that was the Void, and the boundless existence of the One God. Each existed within the other, and yet they were immeasurably separated. But the One suffered in His immense loneliness, and so He brought heaven and earth into existence, He affixed the cosmos into place, and He layered all the planes of existence upon each other. In that moment, the Lord of Lords - the Infinite of Infinities - was all things, and that which was not the One was absolutely nothing. He had given form to Creation, but in doing so He had also fundamentally separated Himself from It.

For everything we touch also touches us back; put your hand into a fire and it shall burn you; swipe a blade across your palm and it shall cut you; inhale the sweet scent of a summer rose and it shall uplift you. It could be said that contact is an interaction -- that which is touched is subject to change, and that which touches similarly changes in turn. How then does a perfect being change? If the One God changed, He would cease to be perfect. This is why the Infinite can not exist within the realm of Finite, that the Immaterial can not exist within the Immaterial, that the Timeless can not exist within Time itself. The Divine is simply unable to exist within the Mundane, and still remain divine. More cynical theologians than myself have said that the One is not refraining from interaction, but from contamination.

Originally scribed by: Leilana Sunrose Executioner of the Order