The One and Ten Faces of God (Patreon)

The first face of God is Apeiron, the one and all.

Godhead. The indivisible root of all conclusion. Impersonable god who is yet a person. Unconfined and confining the world. Creation on Its side looked at head-on. Unknowable, for to know Him is to know that you are nothing, for, alas, He is everything. Our One father, child of Himself, self slaving-loving-slaying self. Divided in unity.

The second face of God is Pantokrator, He who is.

He who comes to be. Through his rule decaying 'till he must come again in His past-and-present form. Hands held aloft for against His will there are no weapons. Shezarr, slain by merish Alduin, slaying Him in turn with remembrance. Paravant, once Perrif, our queen. Magiid Mesharim, the Archimandite, primus inter pares, ruling by word and deed in the image of Marukh.

The third face of God is Recusant, He who might yet be.

He who overcomes. Delivering us from his now-and-future twin, in his struggle becoming his opposed opposite. Gloves of ocher to hide the stains of his betrayal-suicide. Alduin, slain by pagan Shezzar, risen again as Akatosh to rule this empire and the next. Perrif, now Paravant, their slave. The prophet Marukh, each word killing blow to falsehood.

The fourth face of God is that of the Underking, He who could have been.

He who succumbs. The rebel that cannot take the place of king, but through his death grants both their grace. The essential other through whose destruction we might know ourselves. The eastern sharmant, who dreams but does not sleep. The icy north's sleeping dragon, who cannot be but must. The eighty and eight sisters of the Aleshut, smothered by her glory. The prophets preceding, hypothesizing, the coming of Marukh-whose-name-is-truth.

The fifth face of God is Chthaetókos, the womb and tomb.

The paradox, goal, and conflict. Al-Estia, mother to men and death to mer, clad in the land that birthed her. Almalexia, nourishing law, snake-faced mother mercy. Hzeah, who sheathed a sword betwixt her legs to become the first woman. Shezarr (she-czar, the woman-king), of whose death rose possibility. The dawn-birthed and dusk-slain Azura; Miridia, the light-living; Nocturnal, the death-dark. Wonder why the woman bleeds but does not die.

The sixth face of God is Hoplite, the necessarily superfluous.

Of Him no further must be said.

The seventh face of God is Sahiid, the willing sacrifice.

The idealized form. The abandonment of life, which is change, which is choice; for choice is but illusion and therefore limitation. Erasure of the finite physical in favor of the infinite light, a re-entering of base duality, the reintegration of IS and AM.

The eight face of God is Tragos, the necessary evil.

Existence is by its nature imperfect, and the imperfect must be purged to make way for the new age.

The ninth face of God is Us, his mirror-children.

His spirit revealed in us if we choose to listen, His thought-will done should we choose to act, His body become ours if we choose to fall upon the sword of faith. Filthy and mortal are we apart, the image of the indivisible monad, our father, are we together.

The tenth face of God is the Prisoner, living lighthouse beacon.

For God made man so that man might become one with God, though man strayed and became too blind to see it. The Prisoner unites within himself the world until there exists but one outside himself and that is God.

The final face of God is that of Love.

Through which we find these meanings.