Sacris Incendium
Sacris Incendium, which in the ancient tongues of The Colonies translates as Sacred Fire, is a belief system founded in the city of Alowca, in the realm of Halcyon by Caravanthian Arylon during the Renaissance Era. While considered a religion by most observers, in reality Sacris Incendium is much more accurately thought of as a philosophical tradition as it deals less in the metaphysical mysteries of human existence, instead focusing on observations and teachings related to the cyclical nature of the human experience.
Adherents use the symbol of the Phoenix as a representation of what they call The Cycle of Fire, personifying the constant birth, growth, decline, death, and rebirth experienced by all people. As such, the Phoenix has come to be representative of the faith as a whole.
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Founding
Doctrine
Theology
no belief in a single god
Fire
In ancient Colonial Culture, fire was often associated with a god, or was revered as a god itself. Fire was associated with a living being--it ate, breathed, grew, decayed, and died--in many religions. Fire was so basic to the human experience that it persisted in the minds of humanity as an element close to nature.
Fire, as an instrument of both destruction and renewal, can be seen in many examples. For instance, fire burns through a forest, the old growth in the forest burns away to allow space for the new forest to emerge from beneath.
The role of fire in the symbol of rebirth is best known through the phoenix. The mythical phoenix dies by spontaneous combustion. It bursts into flames and disintegrates into ashes. Then, from the ashes, a new phoenix is born to live its live again.
The Nature of the Universe
Incendist cosmology is cyclic—the universe is seen as being in a constant process of re-creating itself. Throughout our lives, we experience constant death -- the death of friendship, the death of possession, the death of ignorance, the death of love -- and are then routinely reborn again, to experience these things anew and grow together toward a more perfect understanding of life, and the universe around us.