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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 praciticed 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, Nonconformist Quakers, Ranters, Radical Anabaptists, Behmenists, Deists, Druze, Hermetic alchemists, Sufi sectarians, Sabbatian 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 Tao te Ching, Rig Veda, Avesta, Septuagint, Sutra Pitaka, Abhidharma, Diatessaron, Mahāyāna Sutras, Zhuangzi, Gospel of Mani, various apocrypha, Qur'an, and other mystical 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 Emenations 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 covoluted 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"), communally skyclad or in Temples of Reason. Psychologically the Faith seems to predispose adherents towards advanced deductive and inductive 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 "Kingdom of Heaven" to acheive cosmic ballance and end karmic rebirth.

Prayer of Submission to the Will of Logos

There is no God but Logos, and many are his 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