Fourfold Sodality

> *"Agents have been unable to confirm the existence of the Sodality in modern times beyond that of its passing reference in Wood's literary materials found after the 1989 incident. Due to this reason, it can be inferred that some degree of connection exists between the orders of the Fourfold Sodality and the Bishops of the Styx." —* anon. report from the Preternatural Investigation Branch of the FBI
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### Locations

Across the United States of America (as known to the Federal Bureau of Investigation)* Atkins County

### Affiliations

 Bishops of the Styx (according to journals owned by Archer Wood)

The **Fourfold Sodality** is a highly secretive and esoteric religious cult that has been at the forefront of scrutiny by the Preternatural Investigation Branch of the Anomalous Research and Intelligence Office due to their infiltration of various American communities and organizations. Although not existing in the public eye, the Sodality and the American government have come into conflict in situations such as the Disappearance of Klement Bruner and the subversion of Continental Freemason lodges in New York in the 1950s. These events led to the FBI's failed Operation Tumult that sought to identify and arrest members of the cult, which forced the group into hiding to the present day.

However, following the 1989 "Hell's Staircase" Incident in Cedarcrest, New York, the PIB came into the possession of the journals of the Satanic serial killer Archie Wood that implicated the Sodality as having an active relationship with the Bishops of the Styx, a theistic Satanist organization, at the time that the journals were written. This, as a result, shows that the cult is still active and continuing their operations throughout the United States.

## Beliefs

*Main article: Huparxis (belief)*

The Fourfold Sodality believe in a panentheistic religion known as *Huparxis*, which states that all of existence is a non-divine reflection of the divine All-God, with further dimensions (presumably the Other) being further, more elaborate reflections of this being.

The doctrine of the Fourfould Sodality is compiled in their religious texts known collectively as the **Vindicat**. This collection of text states that empyreal paradise can be achieved through the deliberate destruction of the barriers between the non-divine and divine substances of God throughout all of the All-God's "soma". In specific, it is keen on dematerializing any borders between dimensions, and bringing all "isolated organs" of God together in order to complete its form in totality.

Angels exist within the religion as powerful entities from planes of existence beyond the cordons of normal reality. These beings are named in accordance for their encountered natures - for example, the Angel of Woods is known as Huloçon, and the Angel of Death as Algem. It is unknown if these names refer to specific individuals or cryptids that reflect such attributes.

### The Four Planes

Huparxists identify four planes of existence that are needed to become coalesced in order to bring about the Totality and subsequent Rapture of Reality. They are the Reality of **Sóma** (*Body*), Reality of **Phronéma** (*Mentality*), Reality of **Eidéma** (*Knowledge*), and Reality of **Noéma** (*Mind/Soul*). As a whole, humanity exhibits perception within the Reality of **Soma**, but have their true natures locked away within these three realms as well. The "microcosmic totality" that occurs when all pieces of a human are brought together would assimilate them into the organs of the All-God and attain total pleasure and purity.

More often than not, in order to attain a microcosmic totality, Huparxists attempt to find or directly bring about the invocation of "inter-reality interstices". It is unknown as to how they perform these actions or if these attempts are even successful, but the preternatural context of such warrants major investigation and is open to interpretation.

The reunion of the bodies of the All-God into one, total form is expected to occur within the Vindicat through the opening of massive inter-reality interstices that inevitably consume the boundaries of various realities and bring about a grand reunification of all existences. This event, known as the Totality, is essential to the achievement of the Rapture of Reality and the imbuement of the sensation of God within all beings and entities.