The Black Pilgrimage: The Iblisic Pathway

The pathway intersects its worldview and narrative. Its worldview is a theater of castes in interplay and conflict. Its narrative is Iblis cursed and exiled for refusing an order of divinity for fealty to humanity. The overlapping of the narrative and worldview result in its Three Tenets and Seven Precepts. These are the basis of its pathway, which views life as a pilgrimage to death as its sole holy site.

I. The supplicant of Iblis and the Iblisic worldview

In terms of conscious pursuit of the pathway, this is where a follower of Iblis thinks about his worldview or arrives with an establshed worldview. Time can lapse, in much the way that time does, before moving on to the narrative.

In a way, every living thing or sentient being is a supplicant of Iblis. Each of us in our way acts, momentarily or perpetually, for or against a caste. In this context, the term Iblis signifies an impulse, urge, or drive in creatures to this end.
II. The petitioner of Iblis and the Iblisic narrative This is where the follower of Iblis fully absorbs the narrative, or better yet, matures in their understanding of a narrative already basically understood. Time can lapse, in much the way that time does, before being fully in the pathway.

The important thing with respect to the narrative is taking the perspective of Iblis in regard to his motives and replacing his own caste, kind, or tribe with your own, in a way that relates it to humanity considered as a sum or as a whole.
III. The companion of Iblis and the Iblisic pathway This is where worldview and narrative overlap as a pathway. The manifold of Iblis is now understood as both a figure and a symbol of the umbral and torrential forces of life and mind as shadow of divinity, the self, and groups or places. The worldview and the narrative are finally linked one to the other, resulting in Three Tenets and Seven Precepts that are the Principles of Iblisism. The Three Tenets give perspective while the Seven Precepts ground choice. To stay commital to caste, mindful of death, exile, and isolation, and forever in struggle in cautious, rational, and nonviolent progression from life to death.

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