Tikälim

Tikälim

Eye of Perception
Total population
Approx. 13 to 15 million
Regions with significant populations
Argis: Stedoria Aurelia: Schennland
Scriptures
The Gift of Reasoning from the Universe (1794) Man's Abilities and His Future Destiny (1802) An Essay Regarding Man's Reasoning and His Role in the Cosmos (1805) The Awakening (1810)
Languages
Stedorian, Stedorian Dolch, Dolch

Tikälim, meaning Rationalism in Stedorian, is a pandeist civic religion and philosophy created during the First Stedorian Revolution to act as a new religion in place of CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE for the then newly-formed Stedorian Republic. The development of Tikälim originates from philosophical ideas and beliefs prominent during the Stedorian Enlightenment, which occured between the 17th and 18th centuries, emphasising humanism and rationalism. Tikälim would, in the early 1800s, be influenced by the newly-created Sentist religion of Ceris, which was seeing rapid growth in the region, particularly after the publishing of the Sentism's early text, Tanz der Nachtgeschwister in 1821.

Beliefs

Classical Tikälim

WIP (Beliefs centred around reasoning and logic, deductive skills, rejection of God.)

Neo-Tikälim

WIP

Neo-Tikälimist theology centres around the idea of a creator deity, simply referred to as the Dabinal or Supreme Being, exist before the universe's creation. When the Dabinal created and expanded the universe, the Dabinal's power was sacrificed and consumed, leading to its weakening but also incorporation into the very fabric and laws of the universe. The Big Bang is viewed as the exhausting of the Dabinal's power, whereupon it ceased to be conscious, sentient entity, instead itself becoming the very universe. Whilst Neo-Tikälimists believe that the Dabinal no longer exists in its sentient state, they do believe to still believe in the Dabinal's continued existence, in the shape of the universe. According to Neo-Tikälimists, the universe is itself the unconscious, powerless Dabinal. Neo-Tikälimists believe that humanity's ultimate destiny is to venture the universe in order to awaken the universe, thus awakening the Dabinal. This will result in the Dabinal, with its reinvigorated strength, becoming one with the Dabinal, resulting the humanity ascending to divinity and becoming the masters of the universe alongside the Dabinal.

In justifying their beliefs, Neo-Tikälimists hold that the existence of rationality, sapience, and logic, and the ability of humans to harness such qualities, is itself evidence of the Dabinal's existence; they believe that these qualities are remnants of the Dabinal's power, granted to humanity. At the same time, because these qualities are viewed to be manifestations of the Dabinal in humanity, they are by extension viewed as an individual's soul. According to Neo-Tikälimists, rationality and the soul are one in the same. To be irrational is viewed as being weak in faith, virtue, and soul. Additionally, because of humanity's rationality combines with their understanding of the Dabinal, humanity itself is seen as the rightful ascendants of the universe; any non-human species that have sapience do not understand nor realise the Dabinal's existence, and thus cannot inherit the universe nor the Dabinal's power.

Neo-Tikälimists hold that the key to the universe's awakening lies in science and technological development, as they are what will allow human to explore the universe. They hold that in order for the first steps of the Awakening to begin, humanity and Eurth must be united in technological development—this does not mean that Eurth must be politically one, however. As such, science and progress are viewed as positives for Neo-Tikälimists; progress, and by extension science, are viewed as virtuous because they help humanity become technologically closer towards the Awakening, even if at an extremely slow pace.

(humanism & virtue = from revolution, humanity is the master of the earth, virtue stems from rationality. Humanity entitled to rights. duties the detestation of bad faith and tyranny, by punishing tyrants and traitors, by caring for the unfortunate, respecting the weak, defending the oppressed, doing unto others all the good one can, and not being unjust towards anyone. Truth, Justice, Modesty, Friendship, Frugality, Fidelity, Immortality) (with Sentism, humanity must be united (physical/technological superiority) and virtuous (moral superiority) against cosmic threats)

(repudiates Sentism's cosmic battles theory, however, holds that humanity must remain out of sight of potential cosmic beings until humanity is developed and united enough, and must keep the awakening a secret from cosmic beings)

(after death = soul becomes the universe (expansion of the universe = theological justification, the awakening = )

(the awakening = unspecified how to occur, vaguely associated with humanity venturing the universe and colonising it. humanity's spread = awakening the universe and thus god. when the universe is awake, humanity itself will become divine alongside, (but seperate from) the Creator)

History

Early History

Following the First Stedorian Revolution and establishment of the First Stedorian Republic, the new revolutionary government took aggressive measures against the Church in Stedoria, forcing all priests within the country to swear an oath of loyalty to the state above religion. This was met with increasing resistance from the clergy. Seeking to mobilise commoners against the clergy, along with diminishing the clergy's influence, the revolutionary regime created Tikälim as an alternative to Christianity, starting with its foundational document, The Gift of Reasoning from the Universe, published in 1794. In its early years, Tikälim would be met with only limited success among urban and Stedorian Dolch speaking populations, and virtually no success among rural peasants.

In 1802, Man's Abilities and His Future Destiny was published by Liegan Kißling. Kißling had, between 1799 and 1801, lived in Ceris, and had witnessed the early years of the nascent Sentist movement, founded by Edgar Schuchardt. Particularly inspired by Schuchardt's astronomical and cosmological observations. Kißling re-interpreted Schuchardt's doctrines, theorising that Schuchardt's "divine readings" were his realisation that a Creator deity had created the universe by itself becoming the universe. Kißling poised, however, that Schuchardt had misinterpreted this by using a theist analysis instead of a rational-based deist analysis.