Religious texts WIP thread

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Heres a thread where we can post the religious texts we make that can then later be added to the religion section!  

None of this is necessarily canon until we've discussed it
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Overaching morals and commandments (mostly for practicing Enferi):

1 Let thine spirit remain untouched

2 Submit not thyself to any but Iosta's light

3 Consume not the delusional fruit and forbidden nectar

4 Taint not thine spirit with foreign objects

5 Use thine powers to further Iosta’s image – do not create False Idols

Book Of Divided Fiber

Chapter 1: The Holy Battle

1.1 The most sacred gift was Spirit. Harbored by the Sanctified Mother Iosta, the Harbinger and Sovereign of earth, she shared her gifts with her children, the people.

1.2 The Spirit, a divine spark within each living being, and the ethereal connection to our Savior. The essence and flow from which all energy came to be. The gift to oversee, she gifted to her sacred people known as the Enferi.

1.3 The Spirit, the foundation upon which all life and consciousness thrive, at first a gift to all mankind. But the perversion of mankind awoke the duality of Spirit. This Iosta warned, speaking to Saint Thelmian, had lent the power to the force of evil known as Tarron.

1.4 Tarron, in his darkness, allured weak enferi’s seduced by thought of destruction and selfish gain. These would fall at his hand and turn their back to Iosta’s light. The misled she would name Nachon.

1.5 To the Enferi, blessed with Iosta’s eternal light, she spoke to Thelmian: “Dedicate thyself to the continued preservation of balance and holiness. Spread the message of Tarron’s evil and let not more be seduced by the destruction he yields.”

1.6 “Aim to make the Spirit whole once more. And heed the Nachons, for their path leads only to destruction and abomination. They hath forsaken the light, turning them against the holy and true. For this, they taint the essence of being.”

1.7 Appointing Thelmian the first High Priest, he was sent to spread the word of Iosta and the great risk at cost. And for this, the preaching of goodness was born, ensuring the continued prevail of Guiding Enferis over the Demonic Nachons.

Chapter 2: The First Fallen Enferi
2.1 Most blessed were the Enferi, Iostas' own chosen people. In harmonious unity they lived under the watchful eye of their God and creator Iosta, the arbiter, the architect and the mentor, the great Mother of all energy: her truest talents were brothers, Makias and Acheron.

2.2 Makias, the oldest, devoted his craft for the good of their village and was then justly named teacher and priest. Acheron could only watch with jealous eyes: his talents equaled his brother but yet he went unrecognized by the subjects.

2.3 Shamed and defeated, he repined this to his brother. “My gifts are being exhausted, wasted and misused!" he proclaimed. “When is it my turn to bask in her holy light?”

2.4 To this, Makias simply smiled and replied with a calm face. “There is no greater glory than dedication to the craft for the sake of the Mother,” he told his aching brother. “Her light shines brightest with the pliant and humble. Then, put aside this conflict of vanity. Pride blinds to the light around you.”

2.5 Appalled, Acheron rejected his brother's words. Hurt and dejected he sought out the dark mountains of Sanston. No one seemed to understand but the caves.

2.6 Unbeknownst to him, the conflict had been witnessed by a beast. He appeared to Acheron, a dark horse faced spector of dripping shadows, dwarfing Acheron with his height. He introduced himself as Tarron.

2.7 Terror gripped Acheron's aching spirit but Tarron put him at ease speaking: “Fear not child,” spoke the false icon. “For I have known your worth. O’ how painful it must be, to be treated as meer refused energy from a superior form. Dismissed and neglected. But I see you child,” the beast smiled. “And your powers, a beacon of light..”

2.8 “But what use are powers if wasted on meekness alone?” The beast stalked closer. “I have seen your soul, child, and I have thus seen the thirst for artful retribution. I have an inquiry for thee.”

2.9 Flattered, Acheron humored the beast with skepticism. “What, pray, is this objective?”

2.10 “To test the faith of your pious brother; for he is but a paralytic stalk without the gift. Weak and tame, ripe for his gross misdeeds. No, I will grant to thee a gift of my own; ability to destroy what he has set out to create.”

2.11 Apprehensive, but uplifted, Acheron agreed and opened his spirit to the beast's assault. Suddenly shrouded in shadows, dark, cannibalistic desire gripped to his core and pain erupted from every vein.

2. 12 Then, he was alone. The seed had been sown, now the darkness would grow

2.13 Acheron, blinded by Tarrons destruction, now obsessed with awful retribution and dead eyed hatred. He went to his brother's chambers at night:

2.14 And robbed his spirit of its light, annihilating him and leaving him for dead.

2.15 An empty shell, devoid of life: in the name of Iosta’s divine justice, Acheron was sentenced to death.

2.16 and Iosta, too, witnessed this senseless act of violence: and Acheron, was for his transgression against what is whole and good, then forever exiled from Her holy  light. For he who has chosen Tarron shall be forever corrupted by his darkness.

2.17 Thus, even in death his tainted spirit would roam harborless, never to see the Blessed Light of the Great Beyond.

2.18 And in turn, the Nachon, children of Acheron, inherited the spiritual sanctions for this the most vile of crimes. Forever condemned shall they be, a lost, suffering, weak species, those who have chosen Tarron.