The Keys of Transcendence

The Keys of Transcendence are a Forntian concept considered to be the ways people overcome Spiritual Weakness. These methods are mental and ethical training and guidelines for conduct in every day life.

Strengths of Wisdom and Knowledge

Wisdom and Knowledge are cognitive strengths that entail the acquisition and use of knowledge. They require several secondary characteristics to foster the proper use of this knowledge. It requires creativity, originality, and ingenuity to be able to think of new and productive ways to conceptualize and perform actions. It requires curiosity, interest, novelty-seeking, and openness to experience in order to take an interest in ongoing experience for its own sake; it allows proper exploring and discovering new concepts and new models. It requires Open-mindedness tempered by judgment, and critical thinking. The ability to think of things through and examine them from all sides; weighing all evidence fairly to come to proper conclusions. There also needs to be staunch love of learning. The willingness to master new skills, topics, and bodies of knowledge, whether on one's own or formally. There also must be perspective and wisdom as a goal, with the ability to provide wise counsel to others; to have ways of looking at the world that make sense to oneself and to other people.

Strengths of Courage

Strength of courage is emotional strengths that involve the exercise of will to accomplish goals in the face of opposition, externally and internally. They require several secondary characteristics to foster the proper use of courage. It requires bravery and valor the ability to not shrink from a threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain; acting on convictions even if unpopular. It requires persistence, perseverance, and industriousness. The willingness and ability to finish what one starts; persistence in a course of action in spite of obstacles. It mandates integrity, authenticity, and honesty. The ability to presenting oneself in a genuine way; taking responsibility for one's feeling and actions is considered to be a crucial factor in courage. Dishonesty is considered a form of cowardice. It also needs essential vitality, zest, enthusiasm, vigor, and energy. The ability to approach life with excitement and energy; feeling alive and activated in the face of opposition.

Strengths of Purity

Strengths of Purity involve interpersonal strengths that involve attracting good wholesome power. It includes the ability to tend and befriend acolytes, and draw in those who have virtue, strength of mind, and powerful immeasurable virtue. They require several secondary characteristics to foster the proper attunement. Love is needed, and so is valuing close relations with others, in particular those in which sharing and caring are reciprocated. Kindness is needed in its ability to value the good. Generosity is needed, in its ability to guard one another in times of need. Nurturance and care is needed in its ability to foster a closeness with one another and share in joy, wisdom, virtue, courage, and strength. Compassion is needed in its ability to strengthen empathy, the ability to feel with others. Altruistic love, and kindness are needed to empower the individual's ability to bridge gaps between one another. The ability to do good deeds without expectation of reward is also needed doing favors and good deeds for others is a power to others. Social intelligence, emotional intelligence, and personal intelligence are also needed. It allows the person to be aware of the motives and feelings of other people and one's self.

Strengths of Justice

Strength of Justice is civic strength that underlies healthy community life and discourages corruption and evil. They require several secondary characteristics to foster the promotion of justice, solidarity and righteousness. It requires identity, social responsibility, loyalty, teamwork. The ability to work well as a member of a group or team; being loyal to the group. It requires morality, the ability to conduct one's self with righteousness, with the disgust of evil and willingness to promote good and discourage harm. It mandates fairness, the ability to treating all people the same according to notions of fairness and justice; not letting personal feelings bias decisions about others. It requires leadership skills, and encouraging a group of which one is a member to get things done and at the same maintain time good relations within the group.

Strengths of Temperance

Strength of temperance are strengths that protect against excesses and recklessness. They require several secondary characteristics to foster the promotion of self-discipline and self control. It requires forgiveness and mercy, the ability to forgive mistakes; accepting the shortcomings of yourself and others; giving people a second chance; not being vengeful. It requires Humility and Modesty, allowing one's accomplishments to speak for themselves; not regarding oneself as more special than one is. There is also a need for prudence, to be careful about one's choices; not taking undue risks; not saying or doing things that might later be regretted. Self-regulation and self-control are considered necessary as the need to control what one feels and does; being disciplined; controlling one's appetites and emotions.

Strengths of Ascendance

Strengths of Ascendance are strengths that forge connections to the larger universe at whole and provide meaning and appraisal to value experiences, persons, and objects. They require several secondary characteristics to be able to judge value objectively. First one needs the appreciation of beauty and excellence, awe, wonder, and elevation. To appreciate beauty, excellence, and/or skilled performance in various domains of life allows one to gauge ways to better themselves. Then there must be Gratitude, and the ability to be aware of and thankful of the good things that happen; taking time to express thanks. There must be aspirations, hope, optimism, future-mindedness, and future orientation of thinking. To hope for the best in the future and work to achieve it, while preparing for the worst possible circumstances. There must be humor and playfulness. Liking to laugh and tease; bringing smiles to other people; seeing the lighter side of existence, as it allows for one to be able to appreciate the good and the bad with stride. Then there must be depth of spirituality, religiousness, faith, and purpose. Having coherent beliefs about the higher purpose, the meaning of life, and the meaning of the Law and its implications for the universe.