Gregorianism

Gregorianism
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Type	Universalizing religion
Classification	Imirianic
Scripture	Gregorian Canon
Theology	Monotheism, Trinitarianism, Gnosticism
Region	Worldwide
Founder	Gregory, Princeps Mundi, Agnes Salvator
Origin	1st century CE !Greece, Hernician Empire

Gregorianism is an Imirianic trinitarian religion focused on the teachings of Gregory, the proclaimed Divine Manifestation who preached in Calesia and Northern Hylasia in the 1st century CE. It is the largest religion on the world, with approximately 2.8 billion followers, more than X% of the global population, and it has shaped the cultural institutions, belief systems, and ideologies of most of the Old World.

Gregorian beliefs and practice are diverse amongst its many sects, but a unifying thread is the concept of a God whose triune nature manifests in creation and in the human experience. Gregorians hold that God's manifestation in the person of Gregory bridged the mundane and divine worlds and made possible human gnosis. This "divine realization" is believed to have been first facilitated by the reflection of God's three aspects in the persons of the earthly trinity, and is is currently perpetuated by the Gregorian religious body or the promised resurrection of the persons of the trinity, especially the Princeps Mundi and Agnes Salvator.

Gregorianism originated the 1st century CE in Hernician !Greece from the teachings of Gregory, who is believed to have fled from Azeth following its sacking. The followers of Gregory, under an alliance with the Princeps Mundi, briefly took control of the Hernician Empire, but were later overthrown and then persecuted. Early Gregorians subsequently appear in the historical record as a sect of who idealized the leaders of the earlier political uprising as martyrs, and whose ideas quickly spread throughout the Empire (and across the sea to Abaria) in the 3rd century CE.

Disputes over the nature of the trinity and eschatology culminated in the division of the faith between Apolistic and Principal sects in the 4th century, while the Cathedralist organ that had become established in Calesia split into north and south in the 11th century, and later split with the Presterists during the !Reformation. The discovery of the New World and the increasing dominance of Calesian powers further spread the faith and practice of Gregorianism worldwide.

History

Origin

Main article: Palmerism

Theology

Main article: God in Gregorianism

Waldish depiction of the earthly trinity, 15th century

Trinity

Gregorian theology is centred on the Trinity, a framework which positions and defines God, Spirit, and Creation, while also structuring and explaining each of those hypostases themselves. Apprehension of any two of the three produces confusion over their apparent opposition, which is only completed and resolved through introducing the third to thus reach a full understanding of the divine, but (at least in orthodox understandings) without subsuming or occluding any of them. The most conventional and widely-used example of this is the seeming contradiction of the natural and mundane world experienced by Spirit, via man's own ordinary faculties, to the enchanted and wondrous world produced by Creation. This is resolved through the disclosure of God, who acts through and upon both (but is not merely this simultaneity). The recognition of the divine Trinity is higher insight into reality itself; symbolic trinities are an ubiquitous device and interpretable theme in Gregorian theology and philosophy.

The most significant trinity iin Gregorian thought is that of the triune nature of God. Inheriting from Palmeric thought, God is deemed to be three persons representing the phenomenological division between sensation, action, and thought; these divine aspects are held to represent archetypes of Daughter, Son, and Father, respectively. While Gregorians dispute as to the precise nature of the trinity and the degree to which each partakes an equal role in the divine, it is generally agreed that these aspects reflect in the mundane reality of human experience, while simultaneously forming the transcendent essence of creation.

Reflection and "Schism"

Gregorianism follows the Imirianic tradition in defining Man as a reflection of God, having been created in the latter's image. However, this merely dualistic relationship positions Man as an inherently 'schismatic' character, overconfident of his own abilities, jealous of God, and seeking to usurp the latter's place, akin to mistaking a mirrored image for the real object. Yet the derivative, 'reflected' nature of Man means he will always fail in this rebellion, and this condemns him to a nauseous condition with existence. To overcome this is to recognize and submit to God through becoming aware of Creation, thus fully acknowledging and accepting one's own nature as image, remaining distinct but at the same time elevated by knowledge of the full picture.

Manifestation

Schism is overcome through the manifestation — or more specifically in Gregorian symbology the tangible 'grasping' with one's hands — of God. Gregorianism, as the practice of religion, claims to center on and fulfil, if not define this: truth is shown by a reasoned principle and its vindicating demonstration. The dogmas and objects of veneration of Gregorianism — most importantly the earthly trinity and the Gregorian canon — are significant in that they are manifestations in the world, tremendous acts of Creation that are nonetheless intelligible to the Spirit to understand God. Along these lines, the organized practice of Gregorianism is understood as a path which involves both studied doctrine and passionate devotion.

Earthly trinity

The earthly trinity are the central figures of Gregorianism. Gregory is the central prophet and teacher of the religion, who not only taught the nature of trinity and reflection and manifested God on Earth, but further demonstrated it recursively through his work with his two greatest apostles, Agnes Salvator and Princeps Mundi.

Afterlife and Eschatology

Gregorian eschatology is understood as a final great act of Creation that will fully convince a Spirit of it and God's existence, opening and ending existence in the same terms. It is also the final great act of Manifestation, as God shows His supremacy in the most manifest manner to all beholding souls that would have otherwise doubted; for this, the dead will all be resurrected. The world will be made anew.

Religious texts

Main article: Gregorian Canon