It is my staunch belief that all ancient texts, whether they consist of inspiring truths or blasphemous lies, must be preserved, if only for the reason that there is hardly any commodity more rare, and that all that is rare is equally precious. I have taken it upon myself, for it seems no one else is willing, to compile what is left of a work titled ‘Secrets of Transcendence’ but known widely to most scholars as the sacrilege script. Here I have, impartially and to the best of my ability, collected pieces of this work or its reproductions, restored artifacts inscribed with it, and translated foreign accounts of it.

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  …reside in Heaven and are fated to be worshiped as divine, although there is no difference in essence between ascended and mortals. The same fated truth: most will never understand this. The divine king of Row continues to take mortal concubines, they ascend to Heaven through little merit of their own and are now no different than when they were considered mortal.

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  It is not all gods, but only the true gods that merit worship, as unlike the former they do not need it. True gods in fact don’t always care to ascend, this does not make them lesser than those who have. It is never said explicitly that the realm of god is in the Heavens, neither in the scriptures of...

  …they possess something far greater than ascension, and so does everything else in the world, in minute quantities. All true gods were born mortal. Should one look carefully, the birthplaces of true gods and traces of their mortal years can be found on earth. Should one ever ascend, one would find that within the Heavens there are no such traces, simply because none born ascended has ever reached godhood. Perhaps being born great precludes one from becoming greater, as…

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  …myths are indeed the traces of ancient events. And many myths pertain to the creation of the world, that it was built from the corpse of a great beast or in the dream of god. Transcendence is creating reality…

  …some myths show precisely this: mortals killing gods. Being a god does not mean being good at fighting, or indeed even surviving, and religious texts don’t claim otherwise: the…

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  The average demon does more for the Overworld than the average divinity. At least, every demon plays some part in protecting the Overworld from the primal chaos outside, by absorbing it into themselves. The Hells are not any divine punishment, and even saints can become demons after death, entirely by their own will. They could instead wait patiently until they naturally reach the Heavens, but some fall so deeply into the obsession of carrying out God's will that they try to do so as soon as possible, even if it means becoming…

  …but this is a more difficult and less trodden path to the Heavens. The easiest way to ascend is to inspire great devotion to many souls: once they die they can be used to protect oneself from the chaos outside, reaching…

  …promise an eternity in Heaven, where they wield your soul as divine power, until it crumbles to dust.

  …many are willing to sacrifice, as the benefits are concrete and numerous: They ascend for prestige. They ascend because they are not capable of, or too lazy to gather resources on earth — which contains the same amount, only the Heavens are smaller. Indeed, Heavenly treasure is no greater than earthly bounty, only it is more concentrated. They ascend for true resurrection. I wonder which of them were ghosts, or even demons, before ascending. If you think only immortals can ascend you are being deceived, if you think those who ascend become immortal you are ignorant. Those who die in the Heavens are reborn on earth — it is no wonder they never descend, to where they have no second life.

  Many choose the Hells over the Heavens, as while the benefits of descending are less concrete, they are perhaps greater. Anyone can wield demonic mana — this does not make one a true demon — but one must brave the depths of the Hells to obtain it. The abyss, full of demonic mana, promises to fulfill every desire. This is no deception: demonic mana is the closest to chaos, and through chaos everything is possible.

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  …to truly defeat it, one must in fact indulge its desires. Once satisfied, the demon will no longer have the will to crawl out of the river of Hell, and will instead flow peacefully into the cycle of reincarnation. Destroying a demon’s body might only fuel its obsession, resulting in a new, more terrible body once…

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  Fate is both the path and the destination: the path can change or even be traveled in reverse, but the destination is always the same. Fate is absolute, in that what is fated occurs without fail. Fate is not absolute, in that the realization of fate does not depend on anything, and so could manifest as anything. Fate can be wielded, but only by those fated to wield it. Fate can be scried, but be warned: fate reveals only what helps realize itself.

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