The Seven Precepts

"The Three Tenets"
8 Dec. 2024, Nar As-Samum

There are seven basic precepts, each one a guide to choices and actions.

The Narrow Precepts

I.

The First Precept:
Separation as Provenance

In the First Rift, in an act of vital sedition rejecting a direct command from divinity, Iblis spurns fidelity and fealty to humanity as a unity and plurality.

This primeval act by Iblis has two normative implications:

1. Spurning fidelity for mankind and an identity grounded in humanity.

2. Spurning fealty to mankind and a morality of servility to humanity.

The First Precept is dissent against humanism and a denial of complete inundation and subservience to mankind considered as a whole.

II.
The Second Precept:

Stringency as Plenitude

In the Second Rift, Iblis is cursed and exiled, earning his name, demands time as reprieve to justify his disobedience, and gaining it, arraigns humanity.

The Second Precept spurns public praise over instinct and intuitive wisdom, indicts acclaim, and impugns the neglect of death, exile, agony, and infamy.

III.
The Third Precept:
Seedfulness across Worlds

In the Third Rift, Iblis carries his struggle against inundation and subservience underneath humanity, considered as a sum, in all times and places.

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

The Third Precept is 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.