The twenty-seventh of September,
Four hundred and seven years since the resurrection of Lucius,
Three hundred and forty-nine years since the founding of our Holy Church,
In the ninth year of the reign of His Majesty, King Manus Dei;
On the blasphemy of the cult of Sol Invictus:
This cult claims that they are worshipers of our most Splendid and Radiant Lord, yet they deny the word of our Father and instead spread heretical teachings and take part in barbaric and twisted rituals. Even their most basic practices of worship are offensive and flawed.
The faithful children of Soldeus celebrate His magnificence and bask in His radiant Light, yet these cultists take themselves into the darkest caves or the deepest dungeons and shroud themselves in shadows.
By denying the existence of Umbra they have opened their Hearts, Mind and Spark to him. They believe that the terrible lord of the Shade is naught but the horns of a bull and they revere the blood and seed of this beast as sacred. Through the reverence of this beast they must also hold the Moon as sacred and in turn they pay worship to Umbra without even realising it.
A monument stands in the centre of each of their temples depicting this sacrifice as they believe Soldeus sacrificed the white bull they call Tauric. This false idol is an affront; it appears that they worship this bull and its image more than they do the Radiant Lord himself. They also create double blades axes from bronze to represent the Labyr of Luna and these axes are used in the sacrificing of bulls.
Queen Mina, who was a member of this cult, took within herself the seed of such a beast and gave birth to the first of the Minotaurs. It has now fallen to the Church of Soldeus to eradicate these dark corrupted creatures that were spawned in mockery of our Heavenly Father’s Name.
They deny the existence of our saviour and instead they falsely elevate this white bull into a position of holiness. In a time when our people are at the peak of their knowledge and understanding of the world there is a clear sign that Umbra's influence over the faithless is still strong, as who but a fool would believe that it was the essence of a beast that led to the creation of life upon Nave?. Only our Father had the power to create us and it is the Spark of life that He placed within each of us that separates us from beast, bird and fish.
They worship Soldeus as the god of war, of judgment and as the Keeper of Promises. But they pay no heed to the warnings against Umbra and do not listen to the divinely sent teachings about sin and virtue and the Inner Spark.
Their lack of true faith and failure to listen to the word of our Heavenly Lord is what condemns them to the eternity of pain and suffering that awaits them when their mortal body fails.
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