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idyllic-affections · 1 year ago

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Honestly, the Aeons are such an intriguing subject in Star Rail, there's so much we don't know much about them, besides that they were mortals at one who ascended to place beyond average human comprehension due to fantastical circumstances (along with the Paths, Pathstriders, and Emanators). I think my favorite aspect about the Aeons would probably be the subtle elements of cosmic/eldritch horror that a few of them have going on. Such as Yaoshi themself, with the horrors of the Mara, the races of the Denizens of Abundance, and terrific experimental creations of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus, then there's the deceased Tayzzyronth the Propagation with the terror of their self-replicating Swarm, still prevalent long after their Aeon's death. And lest we forget Ouroboros the Voracity, the many-mouthed devourer of worlds, both an Aeon, and an ancient beast called a "Leviathan". Then there's also Fuli, who's physical appearance is on the more "abstract" side, as well as how no one is sure when they ascended, as it seems like they've "always been there" in the memory of the universe. They're such an intriguing lot really!

Yaoshi is among my favorites for the same reasons, with just how abundant their design is!

Fuli is another, because the idea of an deity-like being appearing to be made of mirrors, and representing the concept of memory is just cool.

Then there's Long, which is partially because of my love of dragons, but also because of the interesting thing with Long's Scions (the Vidyadhara and other draconic races) and how they fit in with Long's "revelation of Permanence."

And finally, the last of my favs. This one is a bit ironic considering my liking of Yaoshi, and that would be Lan the Hunt. Because dude, they are a fucking. Space. Centaur.

A FUCKING SPACE CENTAUR. That's cool as fuck dude! I also have something of a soft spot for deities (or deity-like beings) of 'the hunt' because it's such a cool domain to dive into, and see what people come up with like, the principles that deity, the culture surrounding it, the lore of how they came to be. How it can vary from setting to setting!

Just, exploring the numerous concepts and people come up with for Gods in fantasy is always such a cool thing to look into. I know I have a ton of fun toying around with such ideas!

Oof, sorry for the tangent, getting back on topic now! Yaoshi is a very interesting Aeon, it's cool having a more morally dubious life deity around!

Hoyoverse are just very good at crafting and exploring their creations, they've got some very talented writers in their game teams!

Your's truly, 🐉Anon

SO TRUE 🐉 ANON

the subtle eldritch vibes that they all have is SOOO appealing to me (i still think yaoshi could use more eyes though fr!!!! biblically accurate yaoshi!!!!!!!! /lh). and just... the HORROR that comes of all the paths (or could potentially come of all the paths; i believe all the paths have the potential to be cosmically horrifying). the aeons are all so fascinating, really. aha is one i am particularly fascinated by. their... hedonistic nature is so interesting. they are really just here for a good time LMAO everything about the aeons is so interesting, really. i want to know where they came from. why did they ascend. HOW did they ascend. how does it feel to be so eternally bound to their paths, to the point where it probably has become all-consuming for some of them (i think good examples are yaoshi, lan, and nanook. those three seem to be very consumed by their paths, at least to me! i also like to think that yaoshi is inadvertently causing all this harm because they're so all-consumed by abundance that they cannot see beyond it..... but i will save that ramble for another time!)

YOU GET IT THOUGH their design is so abundant. and i think it is so perfect for that reason.

fuli is very cool!!! i cannot help but wonder where they came from. to represent memory--that feels like such an important thing. i don't know. fuli feels very important (all the aeons do, of course! but there are those that seem especially important, like fuli and nanook).

long is also super cool! i had a thought--would permanence have been consumed by abundance? obviously i don't think this is canon. i'm pretty sure long just disappeared. but hear me out on this; abundance is just a broader version of permanance, is it not? like ena the order and xipe the harmony. i wonder what the exact circumstances for an aeon consuming another aeon are, because there are clearly specifics that we don't know about yet, given how similar paths can and do coexist. in a way, abundance and permanance are closely related, but i also see them as different enough for that not to have happened. this is mostly just word vomit. but i think it's fun to talk about these things.

NO NO LAN IS REALLY COOL ACTUALLY LIKE FUCK??????? SPACE CENTAUR???? HELLO?????? Though.... why are you so obsessed with yaoshi bro 🤨 do you have something you need to tell us 🤨🤨 /J OBVIOUSLY I KNOW. WHAT HAPPENED. BUT IT'S FUNNY TO FRAME IT THAT WAY. i was telling my boyfriend about yaoshi and lan and the two of us, who share a braincell, made those jokes and now i can't stop thinking about it LMFOAKDISNHKGJ

i think yaoshi and lan's rivalry is very interesting, to be serious. because you know, if it ends up being true that yaoshi is so consumed by their path that they cannot see beyond it, then is lan's pursuit really justified? or... perhaps it would be better for the abundance to be gone, for the sake of the universe and yaoshi themselves? the "nurturer of the people," the "god of peace"... one who cannot bear to see death and pain. would someone so allegedly kind be able to live peacefully if they knew what they had done?

and... in addition, has lan also been consumed by their path, to the point where they cannot see beyond it? if so, i see them destroying both themselves and the abundance. or maybe just themselves, if yaoshi stays away long enough.

or...

are all the aeons morally ambiguous? is this pursuit beyond mortal comprehension? who knows. i do not! and i think all the potential truths about yaoshi and lan are so cool. so so cool.

the hunt in and of itself is so fascinating. and it sounds cool as hell too. like.... The Hunt. hello.

hoyoverse is very good at that, i agree!

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radicalblog2k · 6 years ago

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What would Jesus say about 2019?

The terrestrial human race is entering and witnessing a phase of very powerful cosmic change. It is a new era, a new age, which continually and distinctly becomes clearer to the eyes of observant, consciously more advanced human beings. While most of mankind here on Earth lies in a deep abyss of ignorance and of consciousness’ enslavement, it has become an urgent necessity, through thorough investigations, to find the causes of mankind’s decline, and to demonstrate this to human beings in a correct, clear, and revealing message and lesson.

Simultaneously, it necessitates showing new ways, which would guide mankind toward a future of conscious comprehension and harmony. It is now time, therefore, for the Earthling to open his eyes and ears and detach his enslaved thoughts from false teachings, to free himself from traditional falsehoods and all evil, and to finally comprehend everything according to the truth. May the Earth human therefore open the senses of his consciousness now to recognize truth. May he look up toward the infinite expanse of the universe, where in timelessness the stars rule in majestic peace and exaltation. May he gaze up to these stars, which, in Creative order, orbit through innumerable year millennia in perfect harmony with the universally valid laws of Creation, and in fulfillment of the commandments to be followed.

As is the case on Earth, these stars are all ruled by Creative laws and commandments which are integrated into the logic and love of Creation itself. There is an eternal activity of growing, timeless existing and ceasing in the endless beginning. May the Earthling look down on his Earth, because there, too, the same laws and commandments of Creation take place in ironclad order. Man, Earth, and its manifold forms of life are all part of these same laws and commandments, as a minuscule yet significant link in the chain of all Creative creation. Where nature exists by the Creative laws and commandments, untouched by human hand, and untouched accomplishes its existence, there reigns absolute and perfect beauty, strength, dignity, and harmonious greatness without any hierarchy.

However, wherever there are traces of human intervention, deliberate illogical order, and corrections become visible, all beauty, strength, dignity, order, and greatness disappear. Harmony is destroyed, changed, and made impossible. Nature then becomes, unintentionally, a witness to the lack of reason and injudiciousness of the Earthling, who likes to call himself the “Crown of Creation”. As a self-appointed crown of Creation, man lives in his delusion, unaware of the fact that he has put on a crown of which he is unworthy. The crown in question is far too large for him and he cannot wear it, for it threatens to crush him under its weight. Truly, the Earthling has developed and “splendidly advanced” until the third millennium.

He has taken himself to the brink of a deep abyss and placed himself before the fangs of the beast of lunacy – driven by false doctrines and religious cults of malicious degeneration, which brought forth hatred, greed, vice, misery, lust, and bloodshed. He, the Earthling, self-appointed “Crown of Creation”, who rules or wants to rule the world and the universe, who have conquered the air, water, and fire, has long ago forgotten how to be a true and sincere human being, and how to think, act, and live by pure, spiritual standards. Hence, he has essentially forgotten how to live as a valuable human being in the “Community Human Being”. He has forgotten to live as a valuable person in communion with other persons. All his forms strive for purely material and materialistic objects and concerns, and he badly disregards all matters of spirit, progress, love, truth, knowledge, logic, and wisdom. Since ancient times man on Earth has wanted only one thing: to obtain power, power under all circumstances.

Upon gaining his power, man has simply used it for enslavement and bondage. Fighting has always been his sole war-cry, and the manifestation of hell his victory. Through very evil and consciousness-enslaving false doctrines, usually in cult-like religious form, man has created coercion and hypocrisy. Through them he spoke of honor and freedom, but in reality he was only thinking of consciousness’ enslavement, profit, and exploitation in every way, and absolute dependence. Man on Earth has forgotten how to show his true face long ago, for he has hidden and lost it within himself with the dawn of religious, false doctrines. Because of this he now wears only a colorful mask whose effect is very stale, monotonous, indifferent, stoical, egotistical, and mask-like. Many Earth humans have become like beasts or consciously deranged robots of the cults’ false doctrines.

Lacking a consciousness that is in agreement with wisdom, and in a form alien to wisdom, people spend their days, months, and years on Earth ignorant of even the tiniest amount of truthful truth. Maliciously and dishonestly they strive only for power, greed, materialism, and hatred against their fellowman and themselves. On the day their life clock stops ticking they die, filled with fear, disharmony and hatred. Man has made everything subservient to him through his intellect and reasoning, and by arranging and manipulating everything around him. His ambitions thrive only on this subordination. Appearance has become far more important to him than the truth of Being. He lost the eternal truth of the spirit and Creation in its basic elements, and has clung since earliest times to unrealistic doctrines of cults.

Due to his self-delusion, he valued enslaving and false doctrines far more than all the laws and commandments in their truth and wisdom. Because of his extremely poor, confused, cult-religious philosophy of life, man believed that by rejecting the true Creative laws and commandments, and by creating orders based on human laws, he could reform mankind in accordance with these unrealistic cults or lead it to a better future of improved living potential. Having lost the knowledge of Creation’s essence in man, he wanted to force other human beings into living, using materialistic means and false religious doctrines. That is why he has enchanted the masses of terrestrial mankind with false promises, false ideals, and idols associated with false doctrines of cults. Within a short time this path led to enslavement, consciousness’ constraint, exploitation, hatred, greed, and vice of the gravest extent. Wherever a remnant of trust has remained, man soon transformed it rapidly and incessantly into vicious distrust and deadly hatred.

The Earthling has gradually removed himself ever more from a true life, from the spiritual intent that originated in Creation. Man has lost his knowledge of the most ancient truth and wisdom, namely, that he is the criterion for all Creative things, in creation of Creation’s own perfection within itself. Now the change of time and the course of a new cosmic era necessitate, with great urgency, that the Earth human turn once again in his aspirations and thinking toward the Creative spiritual truth and the real values of spiritual and conscious life. Until now only a minute sector of humanity knew, or even suspected, that the human life form inhabits not only the terrestrial sphere, but also lives throughout the vast areas of the universe.

Similarly, only a fraction of these human beings knows that the human spirit and consciousness project into the spheres of Creation that cannot be perceived through material senses. Creation, however, is the true abode of every spirit form and, consequently, of each human being as well, within whose physical body a part of Creation itself lives. Truly, it is in the interest of every human being to strive for, and attain, spiritual and conscious expansion and depth, in order to revise his present concept of life. It is a concept of life, which had followed purely materialistic and unreal paths of faith as its course and, as a consequence, propelled the truth of the spirit into severe damnation. A reversal, however, will not be easy, because its path is overgrown with vines and thorns. Concerning the most crucial truths, frequently opposite directions have to be taken, because man must learn that through the existence of his Creative spirit, he possesses for all duration of time an immortal part, namely the spirit – a spirit that works together with the Creative realm and does not play servile role as it has been stated by cults.

In fact, each human being must prove to himself that his spirit works in a Creative manner, and that he must find his perfection within himself, to ensure perfection in Creation itself. For those who have gained this knowledge, there will grow an inescapable obligation to put their own material life in the background, and to guide their spiritual existence toward Creation’s monumental viewpoints, which contain an endless continuity in their constant transformation. A human being of truth knows no prejudices, for a preconceived opinion impedes any quest and discovery, and honesty itself. A human being of truth knows perfectly well that all truth and wisdom lie in the timeless flow of endless duration, so that no preconceived opinion can rightfully exist. Only facts of truth can be facts of truth, and only facts of truth can be facts of wisdom.

Nothing else can be integrated into it. This is a law of the entire process of all that occurs, because every existence must complete itself in a cycle. Cause and effect find validity in all spheres if they are governed by laws and commandments. A preconceived opinion harbors all the illogic of doubt and untruth. When a human being begins to absorb within himself this information, he may obtain a clear understanding of a vicious human weakness, namely, whether or not he is beyond the standpoint of preconceived doubts and criticism or still dominated by prejudice. If he is still biased toward preconceived opinions, he ought to put this message aside and pass it on to those who are free from prejudice in their quest for truth. Throughout the entire universe many variations of life forms manifest themselves based on a specific law.

It is Creation’s massive and invisible influence which, as an unsolvable mystery, brings about endless continuity and endless transformation. Everything that breathes life in the universe is bound in time and space by this unsolvable and mysterious law, with the exception of the spirit forms, which exist under the same law, but are not subject to time and space limitations. Originating from within Creation, the spirit form, however, is not impaired in its existence by the law of mortality. Likewise, everything that lives on Earth is inter-connected and subject to time and space and, therefore, to the law of existence in time and space. It is a bond of conditions in space and time, which represent a regularity of solidly fused order; the transformation of space and time in material form; the beginning and declining of coarse matter. By possessing the knowledge of all prior facts of the past concerning terrestrial humanity, we are taught that in the most ancient days when mankind still lived in harmony with, and observance of, the Creative laws and commandments, people’s spiritual aspects and forms totally agreed with the existing natural laws.

Consequently happiness, knowledge, wisdom, peace, freedom, logic, and love, as well as tranquility and contentment, were all part of this solidly fused order. With the self-alienation from the truth of Creation, its laws and commandments, and through false doctrines that degenerated into religions, malicious things were cultivated, e.g., hatred, discord, slavery, bloodshed, envy, greed, egoism, quarrelling, and many other inhumane manifestations. Now it is important to analyze and reveal the sustaining, destructive, negative, and degenerative forces anchored in man, so as to show the path of truth, freedom, and wisdom, which is to guide man from the desolation of his consciousness. Only when the ancient, primary significance of life and the basic significance for man’s existence in his life form are studied, can this path be charted. In the past ten thousands of years many persons of great personality have lived on Earth and endeavored to answer the momentous questions as to the How, Where, and Why. Their endeavors, however, were futile, and the concepts they handed down until the present time have been trampled into aridity, today, as through all times.

Many of these teachers and teachings were, knowingly or unknowingly, falsified and have become a part of irrational religious dogmas. By doing so, these teachings have been changed beyond recognition. Eternal truths have been disregarded or falsified, only because man found their observance very inconvenient. Even to this day man suffers from the harsh consequences. The bearers, heralds, and advocates of truth, the true prophets, have been kicked, damned, cursed, despised, and robbed of their lives. The days of such incidents continue and are not over with here on Earth. Many New Age sages and heralds of truth shall suffer and endure a similar treatment, as the masses of humanity, misled by cults, malevolently make the heralds endure humanity’s maniacal beliefs.

However, the change of time, and the new cosmic era with all its penetrating truths, will help them in their struggle and ultimately bring forth victory. The present mankind on Earth lives in wicked excesses of material desires and pleasures. Man’s idea of a carefree life lies exclusively in a material world where fancy clothing, an elegant residence, the best of food and beverages, financial successes, profits, gratified lusts, and vices play the most dominant roles. In his erroneous, consciously false thinking, man identifies all of this as a “satisfying existence” – due to his lack of knowledge concerning truth, of course. The large mass of terrestrial mankind is only striving toward acquiring immense material wealth as quickly and effortlessly as possible, simply to attain power over others.

The level of material wealth, the position one occupies in society, and the profession one chooses, determine the value of a person in the world, while his spiritual and conscious values, truly the only values of importance, are entirely disregarded, smirked at, trampled, and considered stupid. Currently, a man’s reputation is measured solely by his financial standing, rank, and title. For these people, the fulfillment of their final yearning is a quiet and carefree old age, proud of having attained the “high” level of culture. However, while the pride of Earth’s mankind in the height of its culture relates to the lowest values of acquisitions, man neglects all values of true culture when compared to the development of his consciousness.

A life stripped of noble humanity does not receive much attention anymore concerning any mention of culture. Egoism, in its crassest form, is the strongest motivation of all human thoughts and actions, and yet, mankind is too cowardly to become aware of this fact or to admit it to themselves, even secretly. Due to the Earthling’s lack of courage to face the truth, and his distorted life-style of degenerate hypocrisy, human beings fail to understand each other. Every human being lives secluded from others, deceiving and condemning himself, while, at the same time, begrudging his fellowman each breath of air.

Many attempts have been made to bring truth and wisdom to the Earthling, to offer him a life of knowledge of Creation and to guide him toward the path of Creation, its laws, and commandments. However, all attempts have thus far been in vain. Without exception, the ships of truth have sunk, becoming immersed in the terrestrial being’s bottomless depths of lack of understanding. Truth-seeking human beings have never attacked the real evil at the root, hence they have never been able to find knowledge. They were unable to grasp the evil by the root, because they have held a superficial and erroneous life awareness and lost their actual tasks, as they have replaced the bubbling wells of infinite existence with unrealistic religious dogmas, and have let them end in insanity.

That which is timeless is eternal, and in timeless eternity rest the truth and wisdom of Creative strength and omnipotence. The harder a human being strives to approach this truth, the easier it will be for him to live the laws and commandments in the Creative order. The order of all infinite continuity will shine radiantly into man’s life, provided he recognizes and observes the truth of Creation, its laws, and commandments. Tranquility, peace and love shall become his life’s companions through time and space, and are evidence of the perfection of Creative harmony.

Life in Spiritual and Physical by “Billy” Eduard Albert Meier

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