Editing MedHammer 40,000: Religion (section)

===Aurelian Heresies===

Unlike in Vanillahammer when heresy is thrown around by any sufficiently miffed Inquisitor. Heresy means something very specific in The Aurelian cult. It means to act “As Lorgar” who committed the Two Great Heresies by Calling the Emperor a God and by worshipping the Dark Gods. Lorgarite is sometimes used as an accusation of Heresy.

;Lorgarism
:Lorgarism is simply put to worship the Emperor as a God. A god in the Aurelian Cult is an Immaterial entity, and to do so is to call the Emperor a Chaos god. This is heretical and is seen as a gateway to the worship of The Ruinous powers.
<blockquote>''The Emperor gave us Aurelian and His Mother so that our Prayers and dreams would serve him, not serve the monsters of the warp. He chose his son Gulliman to godhood because, of all his children, he ruled to serve his people on earth. The Gods of Aurelian and Matron Magna serve us as much as we serve them. Thus to Worship the Emperor is not truly honoring him but honoring yourself and the monsters who tricked you into doing so. The Emperor demands nothing of you but your service to the Imperium, and that is sufficient. To say otherwise is to say to The Emperor "I know how to serve you better than you."''
:Maneus Calgar, Spiritual Liege of Maccragge</blockquote>

;Vandirism
:Vandirism, named after the heretical former Spiritual Liege of Terra, is the belief that any human (but especially Vandire) can achieve Emperor-ness, and that The Emperor himself was once merely a man.
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*Goge Vandire's sloppy synthesis of The Aurelian Cult and The Imperial Truth ultimately resulted in a major headache for the other Ecclesiarchs
*He was eventually outed by Sebastian Thor who replaced him.
*Despite condemnation by the Aurelian Cult, it has endured among many thinkers on Terra.
*Because of his well beloved personality, charismatic speeches, suicide, and disastrous successor, He has become something of a martyred hero among those detractors of The Aurelian Cult.

;Filastrism
:Also called "Thorianism," Filastrism believes that the Emperor is trapped in his mortal coil and upon death will become a new, more powerful entity.
*Thorianism after its founder and promoter "Sebastian Thor,"
**Sebastian Thor was the Spiritual Liege of Terra who ousted the Former heretical leader, Goge Vandire
**Unlike the Bumbling self aggrandizement of Goge Vandire, the Inquisition supported reign of Sebastian Thor was an absolute disaster
**It resulted in not only a schism of Terra from the Greater Aurelian cult, but also the deaths and ousting of several Aurelian Faithful
**Sebastian Thor's theories also took root in the inquisition culminating in a inter-inquisitorial conflict, and several assassination attempts on the emperor and ecclesiarchs of Ultramar.
**The Thorian Schism is also the reason that The Aurelian Seat is banned from Holy Terra, instead by imperial decree is in exile on Luna.
*There are rumours that Sebastian Thor was a plant of Alpharius, demon prince of Tzeentch, and was part of his effort to trick the imperium into destroying itself.
*"When Ousting Goge" is now a common phrase in the Imperium used as a warning trading one problem for a much greater one.

<blockquote>
Oh, Queen Mother, save us from Terra and its wealth of Powerful Fools with Silver Tongues and Worn Quills.
<br>-Alicia Dominica</blockquote>