Wise Craft of Submission to the Will of Logos

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History and General Beleifs

The Winged Self: The purpose of The Winged Self Symbol is to focus thought in the inner Divine perfection of each individual.

Alternatively practiced as a panentheistic, pantheistic, or positive atheistic faith, the Wise Craft of Submission to the Will of Logos dominates Hydrarchian spirituality and permeates many aspects of culture, philosophy, and art. Colloquially known as "Gnostic Islam" and sometimes "Gabrielism" the syncretic faith of the "Wise Craft of Logos" places its founding mythos at the historic "Antinomian Synod" of Libertalia held in the Jubilee year of 1700. Congregated there, Dissenting Diggers, Nonconformists Quakers, Ranters, Radical Anabaptists, Behmenists, Deists, Druze, Hermetics alchemists, Sufi sectarians, Sabbatians Donmeh, Bhakti practioners, Bodhidharma followers, Yezidi mystics, Parsi Zoroastrians, witches and shamans from Africa, Eurasia, the Americas, and others often percieved as heretics gathered to harmonize disparate written and oral traditions. Many attendees were seized with visions, engaged in automatic writing, and spake prophechies. The resultant holy texts the "Illuminations" are hefty tomes. They appear to be a mish-mash of the TaoTeChing, Rig Veda, Avesta, Septuagint, Sutra Pitaka, Abhidharma, Diatessaron, Mahāyāna Sutras, Zhuangzi, Gospels of Thomas, Mani, Barnabas, and other apocrypha, the Qur'an, Fama Fraternitatis, Book of Fatima and various quasimystical poetic commentaries and ruminations. Religious practice seems to center around the contemplation of "angels" or "aspects" of a Divine Spirit (Logos, Reason, or God/dess). The first Book is titled the Emanations and Lamentations of Logos, followed by gospels named after these emanations or Archangels: LucifelChokhmah, SarielBinah, UrielChesed, GabrielGevurah, AzraelTiphereth, RaphaelNetzach, and MichaelHod. After Emanations, The Gospel of Gabriel is the largest containing much of what is recognizably derived from the Christian New Testament and Muslim Holy Qu'ran. Despite the convoluted heavenly hierarchies,"Gnostic Muslims" are a social egalitarian but individualistic lot. Worship is carried on privately in homes (often with a sacred alcove devoted to a patron "angel"), or communally skyclad or at Temples of Reason. Psychologically the Faith seems to predispose adherents towards advanced abductive reasoning, with a dualistic, dialogic, dialectical frame of mind. Conceptions of reincarnations in the afterlife steer believers to attempt to acheive a rational anarchic communist temporal "Earthly Paradise" to acheive cosmic ballance and end karmic rebirth.

Relation to other Religions

In many ways Wise Craft of Submission to the Will of Logos can be seen to be similar to Skihism, Bahá'í, Theosophy, Unitarian Universalism and Liberation Theology; combined with respect for the Angelic Emanations which bear close resemblances to the veneration of Vodun Loa or Lukumi Orishas, yet with a personalistic occultism akin to Chaos Magic. It should be noted that Gabrielism predates most of these religions or movements, and purportedly predicts their later appearance and many of the prophets associated with such. While mention is foretold in the Illuminations of many personalities to impact future world Belief, it is generally regarded by Gnostic Muslims that Karl Marx is of the more important recent figures presaged. While acknowledging many prophets Buddha, Jesus, Muhammed, and Marx are held in greater esteem. It should be noted that due to the universalitic tendencies of the Wise Craft of Logos many of the places of worship and pilgrimage of other Faiths are considered holy sites and Temples of Reason by Gabrielites. The self-described "proselytizing paraclete perfecti" have declared a Jihad against the Order of the Invisible Hand as they view its theology as anathema. As these "perfecti" have no authority except over themselves and through example it is doubtful the Faith as a whole will be incited by the call to Holy War.

An example of Revelations found in the Illuminations

From the Gospel of GabrielGevurah:

One hundred years hence in 1800 Gevurah shall enter a man who shall bear my Name, he shall attempt much Righteousness. When he shall be born, it shall turn black dark in the daytime. The people will put their hoes down and come out of the fields. When this man's Noble spirit is reincarnated in the time of Great Martyrdom this phenomenon of his birth shall repeat itself.

(Note: Italic portions are explanatory and not in the original.)

Nations known to contain adherents

The prayer of Submission to the Will of Logos

The "Lotus Temple", a Bahá'í House of Worship, is construed as one Temple of Reason by Gnostic Islamists

There is no Word but Logos, and many are thy prophets.
Logos who art our Winged Self, It is Thy will in us that willeth
It is Thy desire in us that desireth, It is Thy urge in us, that would
Turn our days, which are Thine Into nights, which are Thine also.
Through Logos, I gain Wisdom. Through Wisdom, I gain Understanding.
Through Understanding, I gain Mercy. Through Mercy, I gain Strength.
Through Strengh, I gain Glory. Through Glory, I gain Victory.
Through Victory, my chains are broken. Logos shall free me.
To Honor Thee: I shalt do unto others as I would they should unto me,
I shalt not do unto others as I would they should not do unto me.
We cannot ask Thee for aught For Thou knowest our needs Before they are born in us.
Thou art our need And in giving us more of Thyself Thou givest all.
All praise be to Logos! Wise, Compassionate, Merciful, Severe, Glorious, Victorious, Majestic
Aumeon !!!