Breaking of the World-Gates

The Breaking of the World-Gates is the Vaestic label for the transcension of the Prophet at the climax of the Battle of the Holy Storm on 29 Conservene 1428 (V: 1:1:1:12). Vaestic orthodoxy holds that this momentous event was the first transcension of any human in history, and that in departing from the material world the Prophet lit the 'flame' of the Sacred Prophecy to guide all future Savants, that is, Vesnites, to transcension in their own right.¹ The event is specifically associated with the Prysostaic Rock, and the term 'Prysostaic', literally meaning 'joining-together', signifies the Rock's religious importance as the place where the boundaries between Light and Dark and their material projections were first worn down to their breaking point.

The Prophet physically tears down 'world-gates' at the Battle of the Holy Storm, from 17th-century hieratic art

The 'Gates of the World' are the ties that obstruct and bind human souls to their perpetual shattering reincarnation at the hands of the principles of Light and Dark. Their 'Breaking' is therefore the opening of a route away from this process, a rupture through which the soul of the Vesnite can be liberated from the 'infinite war' of the two principles entirely, namely, transcension. Though mainly of allegorical significance, the 'Gates of the World' or 'World-Gates' are sometimes depicted in hieratic art as physical doors that were broken down by the Prophet as the final act of his ministry at Vaestism's supreme moment of crisis. Prophet Yorsephor in 1905 described the hope of transcension as a 'blazing shadow' that 'ever issues forth from the dazzling ruin of the Gates of the World'. 'To break the World-Gates', or to 'leap' them, is also used as a poetic term for transcension in general.

Notes

↑ Various heretical sects in history have denied either or both of these propositions, such as the Siriophiles who held that Nevaras and sometimes various Ascended attained transcension, and the Pluralists and Desuetudinalists who rejected the uniqueness or permanence of the Sacred Prophecy; the official hierology of the Breaking of the World-Gates only attained its contemporary form after Yambor's promulgation of the doctrine of foreshadowing transcension from the Prophetic throne in 1786.

[1] Various heretical sects in history have denied either or both of these propositions, such as the Siriophiles who held that Nevaras and sometimes various Ascended attained transcension, and the Pluralists and Desuetudinalists who rejected the uniqueness or permanence of the Sacred Prophecy; the official hierology of the Breaking of the World-Gates only attained its contemporary form after Yambor's promulgation of the doctrine of foreshadowing transcension from the Prophetic throne in 1786.

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