Barukung school

Barukung School

Total population
≈ 20 million adherents
Founder
Four Eternals
Regions with significant populations
Continental Isuan
Shang Fa	≈ 18 million adherents
Religions
Anshan Orthodoxy Free Collegium of the Celestial Immortals Paccakkakism
Scriptures
Aruvian canon Classics of the Four Eternals
Languages
Alawese Huranian

The Barukung School, more often simply called Barukukung or New Law Macakkanism, is the second major tradition within the Macakkanism faith. It emerged during the Alawokambese Thalassocratic Period when the faith spread to Huran and was re-interpreted by the local Huranian based on their own philosophical concepts, such as the Taijitu, internal alchemy, or the quest for immortality, with added millenialist expectations. The Huranian Kuang Dynasty of Huran would represent the high point of this original New Law Macakkanism as a way for Huranian people to re-establish their sovereignty over the foreign Alawese and Kambese hegemonies. This religio-political conflict found its conclusion with the Compromise at Anshan which gave birth to the Collegiums system.

Barukung Macakkanism is often characterized as the more Exoteric and Moralist movement between the two historical schools of law, with a greater attention to the worship of local deities, or vice-regents, Immortals, as well as the focus on one of the two fundamentals (Macinnong, or "Order") understodd as "good" whereas its counterpart (Ajakeng, Chaos) is seen as "evil", a characterisation that does not exist within the Old Law.

The largest denomination within the New Law is the Anshan Orthodoxy that claim to be the direct successor of the School of Moral Order, Four Eternals Movement, and the Order of the Supreme Peace. Many movements have opposed themselves to the Anshan Orthodoxy and its structure, but nowadays most have coalesced into the Free Collegium of the Celestial Immortals that was especially popular under the State of Khitay and remain a major denomination in northern Shang Fa.

Doctrines

Macinnong' Diagram as used by the Anshan Orthodoxy

Macinnong Supremacy

In all Barukung Sects, Macinnong is understood as a superior state over Ajakeng. Taking from the traditional Huranian philosophical background, Macinnong is understood as the natural state of relations between Yin and yang, where one phase lead to another so on and so forth in a cyclical movement allowed by the The Void, or World Embryo. Ajakeng, the fundamental opposite of Macinnong, is thus seen a force that introduce chaos and disorder in the universe' natural cycle, and is thus negatively perceived by Barukung scholars.

The actual perception of Ajakeng varies from sect to sect. The Anshan Orthodoxy sees the dialectic between Macinnong and Ajakeng as a dualistic clash between good and evil. The Free-Collegium of the Celestial Immortals however have given Ajakeng the name of "Macinnong' Fool" as, in the words of one of their recognized Authority on the Four Immortal' Classics : "Ajakeng is Macinnong' Fools, as its desire to destroy order and bring disunity is used by Macinnong' to maintain itself and keep the cycle moving [...]. Ajakeng' successes are merely transition from one state to another and thus serve despite their own wish Macinnong' plan." Other sects can hold even more radical positions. Many millenialist have thuse rallied themselves behind the Mantra "There is no Foundation but Macinnong and Dēnghuā is its Saviour".

Quest for Immortality

In the Barukung tradition, the eventual goal of all adherents is to be reborn within the realm of Téposioro. While all sects agree that to reach Téposioro the believer must have cultivated their Macinnong fundament and reached perfect inner harmony, there can be greatly divergent understanding of what Téposioro mean. For the Anshan Orthodoxy, it is the "Realm of Pure Light", the last Universe in which one can be reincarnated and where the perfect harmony and purely spiritual nature of this realm ensure the believer will live forever in the place closest to Patotoé, no longer constrained by the cycle of reincarnations. Meanwhile, the Free Collegium of the Celestial Immortals profess that Téposioro is not a place, but a state-of-being. Once perfect inner harmony is reached, a believer become "Enlightened" and reach Immortality. Finally, the Millenialists do agree with the Free Collegium that once perfect inner harmony is reached, one become an Enlightened, but they do not consider this makes one immediately an Immortal. Immortality is either obtained through Patotoé' Grace, as for the Four Immortals, or at the End of the World when Dēnghuā will come and every Enlightened will be resurected to live forever in the divine kingdom they will establish, Téposioro, while those who did not reach Enlightenment by that time will never know neither the Resurection nor the Immortality and will be denied life in this very material Realm of Light.