User:Javants/Ainism


 * This article is part of Project Genesis

Basically, Ai is believed to be in everything (both the living and the non-living), and everything is imbued with a fundamental energy called a Fragment of Ai There is another force in the world, external to Ai, which is called aeos (chaos) Aeos is not a god, nor is it fundamentally evil or good, but it represents the force which is not Ai in the universe. Aeos is what gives things agency, ie, what makes things alive is their capacity for chaos The goal of all beings is to become totally congruent with Ai, and in doing so, one achieves Ematsu (ubiquity) - total absorption into Ai and the omnipresence of your fragment of Ai everywhere at once. It is the total ecstasy of the soul, because Ai is once again joined with everything The way one achieves Ematsu is by following the Path of Ematan, which he revealed to man when coming to Earth The opposite of Ematsu is Kyorasku (annihilation), which is the absorption of your Fragment of Ai into Aeos. You are completely destroyed forever Ainists also believe that Ai is eternal, and thus life is eternal (reincarnation occurs). Your Fragment starts off being closer to Aeos than Ai, and through following the path of Ematan you gradually become more congruent until achieving Ematsu and escaping reincarnation (kind of like buddhism). Except you still exist in the physical world As everything at once I've also had some thoughts about the main religious scripture: It would consist of three parts, the first of which includes the cosmology and metaphysics of Ainism, the second of which is the teachings of Ematan, and the third of which is a commentary on those teachings