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The Abundant Temple: A Charter

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The Abundant Temple: A Charter

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☼ The Abundant Temple - The Chosen ☼

The Stone Tablet and The Porcelain Mask, have been joined together. In this we have followed the tenet, do what must be done to preserve The Chosen.

Through our charter, we rise as a Temple of Abundant Soul, a polytheistic temple.

The Red Council has become The Abundant Council. These are The Chosen's Rulers and Guardians.

The Abundant Vessel: Advisor to the Abundant Council and supreme authority on all matters of faith.

The four pillars have become seven, in this, they take upon them all burdens of the faithful.


☼ The Pillars of Truth ☼
  • Growth
  • Conflict
  • Sacrifice
  • Discipline



☼ The Pillars of Practice ☼
  • The Quill
  • The Athame
  • The Spear



☼ On Spirituality, Faith, and Worship ☼


The Chosen of the Abundant Temple has been touched and inspired by being that stand outside of our understanding. We care not if The Great One started simply. We care about what his journey allowed him to become. The journey of that potential teaches us. This is but one example of where we gain our strength.

We acknowledge that there are beings born within our shared realities. We recognize that there are beings born of forces outside our reality and outside of the City and Dreamscape. Cults have risen around those beings, through worship and study we see a benefit. We seek to preserve the divine, we turn to it, and away from the banality of man.

The Pillars of Truth guide our hands, our hearts, and our minds. They give us the strength and guidance to seek out the incredible, and experience it. They inspire us to explore the psychodrama that gives rise to and sustains the mysterious. We do not turn away from what we do not understand, we actively seek it out. A great being may be created by outside forces, or on their own merit. Where we are weak, the pillars shall reinforce. Through conflict, adversity, sacrifice and discipline; we strive to be something more. In time may we be lucky enough to escape the trials of our limited capability; having learned at the hand of the divine.

The Pillars of Practice guide our hands, our hearts, and our minds. They give us the standards and practices through which all of our work is given purpose. They unite us as individuals enriched through our diversity, not driven apart because of it.

Through the methods inspired by The Quill, we estimate the power written saga. We cultivate, protect, and teach all manner of secrets to those who are worthy. We archive our experiences, both good and bad, that the worthy who come after us may also learn. Through words both sacred and ordinary, our rites are fueled. Through the Quill, our experiments are born. Our vessels; given voice. One may be exploring spirituality for the first time, or, they may be a seasoned practitioner. We welcome the voices as equals. Potential and Intent; we're but vessels of potential. Together, all may find their voice.

Through the methods inspired by The Athame, we know the power of rite and ritual. The Dreamscape is not a mundane world. Instead, it is a world of the wondrous, of the divine. Together, The Chosen learn not only from the rites and rituals of the Stone Tablet but also of the Porcelain Mask. Each of The Chosen may bring with them sacrament and ritual from which the rest of the Temple may be enriched. We welcome this. We value not only the sacred discovered within the Dreamscape but the ways and customs found in the waking worlds. We give respect to all manner of religious practices, so long as our methods remain unmolested. Should we be interfered with, one shall be met by the...

Methods inspired by The Spear. We as religious faithful in a city fraught with secular traps and many a perverted ferryman, accept there will be conflict. We recognize that as The Chosen, words will fall upon us like a rain of arrows. Fists shall be clenched, teeth will be gnashed, we remain unmoved. Until we are not. One would be most unwise to think that the ways of the Temple, our priesthood, our love of the scholarly experience leaves us weak. Settle personal issues as you may, where consent is given. Move to pervert the expressions of our faith, and you will face our wrath.


☼ Motes of the Esoteric ☼


Souls: We do not know all there is to know about this energetic fragment. We shall seek to understand more. We do view them as a link to the divine, in its many forms.

Nightmares: In one reality, Nightmares were the Shard of the Great One's shattered avatar. In another, they were fragments of chaotic energy given a limited expression of purpose. We throw ourselves against them, to learn and to grow.

Essence; is energy. We sacrifice energy in many ways, using it not only for an individual but instead for the Altar of Sacrifice. We give, so that The Temple of Abundant Soul may thrive. The essence is a bounty given to us from the Dreamscape. It is sacred and works with its power are not to be taken lightly or used frivolously.

The Dark Nightmares: The Dark Mares are dark mirrors of dreamer kind. They are often challenges that must be overcome. We acknowledge that at times, and in phases, they may organize into what could loosely be called a society. While we view them as sentient creatures, we understand that sentience goes hand in hand with a primal and often violent expression of themselves. We will not hate based on the prejudice of form, tongue or practice. We may speak with them, but we never forget to whom we are talking to.





The Matron
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"She spins her golden web between us and the dream." - The Matron ☼, Soulkeeper
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