Religions

Religions are frames which directly relate to the worship or lack of worship of God. Here follows a general cladistic classification which all religions fall under.

## Paganism

Religions that claim that God, the Creator, is not interested in worship, since he does not desire that we reciprocate his love, for that is beyond our nature. Pagans thus worship henads exclusively.

## Theism

Religions that claim that God, the Creator, wants to be worshiped.

### Satanism

Theistic religions that claim that Satan, the henad angel who rebelled against Zeus and later the Logos, is a being deserving of worship.

#### Occultism

Satanist religion that claims that God, the Creator, is perfect and his desire to be worshiped is motivated by his inclination to save us from the privation of his love, which would be a necessary result of his perfect love not being reciprocated, but still prescribes that we should not take part in this worship for we should embrace our imperfect nature and aid Lucifer in destroying the perfect being and becoming the new God of this world, an imperfect creator of an imperfect creation. In embracing imperfection, occultists have very little moral standards and describe themselves, privately, as evil.

#### Gnosticism

Satanist religions that claim that Satan and satanism correspond to the will of the actual, true creator of the Universe, who is not the Logos. In gnosticism, the Logos, and sometimes the Holy Spirit in being conflated with him, is called the Demiurge and creation of the cosmos is attributed to him, though under a negative note since it is seen as a prison that must be destroyed in the service of Satan's goals.

##### Ophitism

Gnostic religion that claims that Satan is not God but his mightiest servant, warrior and prophet.

##### Sethianism

Gnostic religion that claims that Satan is the true creator of the world in his immanence, who let himself be trapped in the cosmos along with the creatures as a way to free them from the inside.

### Theophily

Theistic religions that claim that Satan is not a being deserving of worship, but God is.

#### Manichaeism

A theophilic religion that claims that the Holy Spirit is God but the Logos isn't, holding that both created the cosmos and each other but with different purposes, with God being the origin of all that is good and the Logos being the origin of all that is bad.

#### Hebraism

Theophilic religions that claim that the Logos, the being who created Adam and Eve and later exiled them from Eden, is God, and thus that he created the Universe with a good purpose and must be worshiped to allow for the reciprocation of his love and our concurrent salvation.

##### Cainism

A hebraist religion that claims that God has no prophets, salvation will only come in the end of times once original sin is erased and that we must, until then, erase our other sins through contrition to achieve it.

##### Enoch's faith

The hebraist belief that God does have prophets, one of which being Enoch, the founder of such a belief system among humans, and that salvation will come not through the end of times itself but though the coming of a messiah sent from God that will reconcile us with him. Though Enoch was merely a gardener on Earth, he was assumed by the angels in his old age to preach his message among the elmarians, morninglanders and edenites. To this day the edenites call the gardeners on Earth the enochi because of his very early interaction with them. While on Elmar the faith spread among hebraists, the reception in Morningland was mixed and only a few of Enoch's family held to it on Earth, being for this persecuted by many pagans and even some cainics, before the Great Flood. In Eden, on the other hand, Enoch's message spread far and wide and became dominant over the previously dominant cainism.

###### Noah's faith

The hebraist belief, in line with Enoch's faith, that Noah, who prophesied about the coming of the Great Flood, was right about its cause: God's wrath against the sins of humans on Earth and their particular resistance to Enoch, his first prophet. While the members of the Rose Guard, who constituted most of the survivors, remained as cainics, there was really no opposition among the other early survivors as to the truth in Noah's words. Various religions fit under Noah's faith, a topic which is better explored in an article titled Noah's faith.

###### Idrisianism

After the late Cainic Kingdom was overtaken by the early orcs and their associated priests, the Rose Guard started training abellics, meaning descendants of Noah, among their ranks. While these were allowed to hold no Enoch's faith, they were compelled into conceding that Noah was not truthful about God's authorship of the Great Flood, for their cainist bias made them reject the idea that God would ever intend such destruction. With this, idrisianism emerged as a hebraist religion that preaches that Noah had the aid of dark angels or both, in creating the Great Flood so that his successors, the three patriarchs, might distort Enoch's faith by preaching that, for instance, the worship of henads was problematic and part of what caused God's supposed wrath.