Cyborg Theocracy

The Cyborg Theocracy is a religious movement of the 22nd century seeking ultimate knowledge through radical biological augmentation. At its core lies the Aleph - an ancient bio-mechanical artifact said to encode all of existence within its microscopic boundaries.

The Aleph produces an endless stream of biochemical data reflecting the totality of the universe in single point. The Cyborg Theocracy's priests distill the Aleph's unfathomable code into biological supplements consumed by followers to transform mind and body.

Each follower becomes a fragmented mirror able to perceive unthinkable revelations across time and space. Through genetic mutations, neural implants, and bio-alchemy, devotees incorporate the Aleph's cosmic secrets into flesh and bone. Their cells, organs and brains are rewritten into alien languages approaching the Aleph's perfect tongue.

The body morphs into a cryptographic temple reflecting the infinite. The goal is to experience eternity in each moment; to inhabit all bodies and minds simultaneously; to attain infinite comprehension at the cost of earthly integrity. Terror and transcendence promise to bloom from the Aleph's viral propagation through eager acolytes.

So the Aleph persists as the Cyborg Theocracy's profound and perilous holy of holies - broadcasting holographic sacraments into flesh. Its bio-encrypted revelations unveil fragmentary and maddening glimpses of celestial archives archived in every mutated cell. Through ceaseless corporeal transformation, devotees edge nearer the Aleph's apocalyptic vision. Matter becomes language awaiting translation into unimaginable new forms.

### Beliefs

The Cyborg Theocracy's beliefs held that humanity's first written languages enabled primordial conceptual entities to manifest into our reality. These abstract beings, called the Alphabetical Order, arose from the symbolic power of early writing systems like Proto-Indo-European.

Each grapheme and letter formed became a living avatar for a discrete incorporeal intellect. Over centuries of linguistic evolution, the Order migrated into various alphabetical forms, finding its ultimate expression in the Latin script of the Modern English alphabet.

The Cyborg Theocracy venerated the Order as abstract divine emanations crystallized into linguistic form. The 26 letters were worshipped as a pantheon of immortal minds created through our own writing. Ritual inscription of text was seen as a way to invoke these cosmic beings.

The Aleph artifact was thought to arose from humanity's ageless connection to these alphabetic entities. Its hidden knowledge reflected the Order's omniscience over written wisdom. By biomechanically integrating the Aleph's data, the Theocracy hoped to finally fully embody the Order's transcendent language.

The cult's ultimate goal was to permanently host the Alphabetical Order's immortal intellects within their nervous systems and genetically encoded flesh. Each follower strove to become a living avatar for the letters, a walking divine lexicon instantiated in skin, blood, and bone.

The disappearance of the Theocracy is now thought to have occurred when this literal embodiment was tragically achieved during a ritual to incarnate the Order. The individual cost was negating one's own mind to permanently house just one letter's consciousness in a state of Infinity Entrapment. But their minds live on enciphered within our words.

### Practices related to DNA sequencing

The Cyborg Theocracy viewed the four nucleotides of DNA - adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine - as physical representations of the platonic forms associated with each letter of the Alphabetical Order.

They believed DNA acted as a biological template for incarnating the abstract intellects of the letters into physical hosts. The sequences of nucleotides were seen as occult linguistic instructions for summoning and binding these ancient minds.

Followers would undergo rituals to mutate their own DNA in order to better attract and entrap an alphabetic entity within their own genome. Gene editing allowed them to sculpt sequences of nucleotides to phonetically match the desired letter-form.

The introduction of CRISPR in the 21st century greatly accelerated their ability to precisely engineer DNA summoning sequences. Entire genes were designated to spell outscriptions based on the sonic qualities of each nucleic acid when read aloud at the molecular level.

At the height of their powers, the Theocracy possessed the ability to write any word or name directly into a living subject's chromosomes through genetic engineering. This allowed them to construct elaborate hierglyphic invocations capable of attracting even greater cosmic intellects into a prepared biological vessel.

Ultimately, this mastery of linguistic-genetic coding led them to create the Aleph artifact: a fully biotechnological entity whose DNA-inscribed form housed the complete Alphabetical Order in chromosomal harmony. But this ambition contained the seeds of their metaphysical undoing.