The Three Tenets and Seven Precepts

"The Three Tenets and the Seven Precepts"
Rev. 18 July 2024, Sahib Iblis

The Three Tenets derive from choices in the Iblisic narrative.

I.

The First Tenet:
There is a Door to the

Shadow of the Divine

In the First Rift, Iblis takes a mantle of divinity in disavowing humanity. By refusing to bow [sujud] to Adam, Iblis incites retribution, tumult, and tribulation.

The Shadow of the Divine is an umbra of the past: Iblis before Iblis.

II.

The Second Tenet:
There is a Door to the

Shadow of the Self

In the Second Rift, Iblis is brought face to face with himself in a mirror. By facing a mirror of himself and earning his name, Iblis confronts his hidden self.

The Shadow of the Self is an umbra of the present: Iblis in Iblis.

III.

The Third Tenet:
There is a Door to the

Shadow of the Worlds

In the Third Tenet, Iblis opposes the inundation of worlds by a faceless humanity. In this struggle, Iblis cements the borders that enshrine times or places.

The Shadow of the Worlds is an umbra of the future: Iblis then Iblis.

"I seek to mirror the resilience I find in the outcast Iblis."

The Narrow Precepts

I.

The First Precept:
Separation as Provenance

In the First Rift, Iblis is seditious in spurning fealty and fidelity to mankind.

This act of loyal opposition against the divine is an expression of disagreement with and the denial of the ascension of humanity as a steward of the Earth:

1. The denial of an identity based on humanity by repudiating inundation.

2. The denial of the moral authority of humanity by repudiating subordination.

The First Precept rejects identity and moral authority in a family of humanity.

II.
The Second Precept:

Stringency as Plenitude

In the Second Rift of the narrative, Iblis has spurned penance, is exiled and cursed, compelled to face himself in a mirror, and named for his consignment.

Iblis gains reprieve to arraign and repute mankind until the end of time.

The Second Precept abhors impetus against instinct and intuitive wisdom, indicts fame or acclaim, and impugns the neglect of infamy, exile, and death.

III.
The Third Precept:
Seedfulness across Worlds

In the Third Rift of the narrative, spurns the ascension of humanity and rejects its pretension to enfold other castes, vowing denial in all times and places.

In prosecuting his resolve to reject the submergence and subordination of his own caste, Iblis can use any method he desires except for that of coercion.

In traversing distinct times and places, Iblis is always only wherever he is.

The Third Precept is carrying struggle in and across real or possible worlds.

The Broad Precepts

IV.
The Fourth Precept:
Strictness over the Terrene

In all Rifts, Iblis lays stress on the form and material origins of things.

This signals the role of natural agency and brings into focus the Earth.

The Fourth Precept rejects priority of the intangible over the natural, functional over the structural, and tasks humanity in its pretenses as steward.

V.
The Fifth Precept:
Seclusion from the Proximal

In all Rifts of the narrative, Iblis maintains perspective on other castes, especially the vulnerabilities of enemy castes and preparedness to seize on them.

In recalling this, we recoil from sharing secrets and confiding in others.

The Fifth Precept is the propensity toward predation on enemy castes.

VI.
The Sixth Precept:

Sinuousness in the Offering

In all Rifts of the narrative, Iblis maintains flexibility in relationships at the level of his personal, familial, and tribal interactions and engagements.

In the world of mankind, these are elevated to the rank of national affairs.

If a state takes from Iblis the mantle of his policies, we find intensity of purveyance, a mouth that leads to a belly, and congeniality to time as an ally.

The Sixth Precept is malleability in personal and national affairs.

VII.

The Seventh Precept:

Severance from the Placeless

In all Rifts of the narrative, Iblis opposes the consequences of the inundation of all creation and paradise by humanity. The proliferation of mankind into every world can only encourage and engender an inauthentic form of admiration.

In a misapplied humanism your own caste is buried or drowned.

In globalism every place eventually resembles every other place.

The Seventh Precept is calm disavowal of globalism and humanism.