The Divine Dogmata reveal to humans the nature and
properties of the true Being. They reveal the relations of the Gods with
humans. They reveal the Cosmogonic Principles.
Sometimes the Dogma is formulated negatively: it does
not say what the Gods are, but what they are not. And this is on account of the
difficulty of the issue and the limited human intellect.
The Dogmata of the Hellenic Religion constitute the
Authentic and Infallible formulation of the unalterable Divine Truths. The
Dogmata of the Hellenic Religion are not subjective, nor are they fluid
opinions.
The Dogmata of the Hellenic religion are Eternal Divine
Truths. They are not images, sentiments, or impressions of individuals.
The Divine Dogmata do not fall within sensory
perception. They lie above human comprehension due to the limited boundaries of
the human intellect. The human intellect cannot conceive the infinite divine in
its entirety.
Neither logic, nor the senses constitute a criterion for
the Truth of the Divine Dogmata. Both continually err, because they are human
characteristics. The one and only source of truth is investigative Faith,
because it originates from the Gods. And this is because the logical method
cannot reach a conclusion unless one supplies it with propositions-premises in
order to draw the conclusions that logic wants. And then the matter passes onto
whether the propositions-premises are true.
If someone starts with the premise "there are no
Gods", or "the Gods are natural forces", then he/she will
"logically" reach nonsensical conclusions.
Hellenic Theology utilizes Divine Axioms, and not
premises from the mind of every nonsensical person. For the Hellenic Religion,
logical is what the Gods say and not what every nonsensical person says.
Comprehension of the Divine Greatness is made only
through continuous engagement with the Hellenic Mysteries and with the
unwavering Faith in the Omnipotence of the Gods.
In the Hellenic Religion there is no perpetual and
unproductive questioning. The only thing the skepticists manage to question is
their own existence.
Human logic is an instrument of seeking and not a source
of knowledge, or even a supreme criterion of Divine Wisdom.
Gods that have been fabricated by nonsensical Epicureans
and Euhemerists, are fabricated to the extent of their own littleness. They
attribute their own nonsense and littleness to the Gods.
If someone says he/she knows everything about the Gods,
that he/she is able to fathom them (therefore knows everything about them),
then that means there is nothing else to learn about the Gods. However, this
constitutes utmost blasphemy. However many lives we live, we will never manage
to learn more than a little about the Gods.
Those who claim to judge the visible world and the
Invisible World with the same weights and measures, lower the level of the Gods
to their own human level. They struggle through a chimera, because they try to
fumble the Spiritual Level of the Gods.
The Gods, through the Hierophants, abolished the
horrible torment of doubt, the questioning regarding divine knowledge. The Gods
delivered to humans Their Eternal Dogmata. There can be no forgiveness for the
ignorance and questioning of the Eternal Divine Dogmata.
Dogma 1ο : The non-existence of the Gods is impossible to prove
Interpretation: The Gods are independent from humans,
from space, from time, and from the World. The Gods do not have a cause
of existence outside themselves or for themselves, but absolutely and solely
within themselves.
Dogma 2ο : The Gods are Eternal. The Gods were not
born, nor will they ever die
Interpretation: The Gods are independent from time; they
are not finite. The Gods are everlasting, that is to say, without beginning or
end. Worlds are born and pass away; the Gods weren’t born, thus neither do they
die. When the Sacred Tradition refers to births of Gods, it refers to their
Epiphanies and Incarnations, and not their beginning or end.
Dogma 3ο : The Gods are unalterable
Interpretation: The Gods do not evolve. Whatever is able
to evolve, is also able to improve for the better, or to degenerate for the worse.
The Gods do not evolve because they are Perfect. Whatever is perfect cannot
improve or degenerate.
Dogma 4ο : The Gods are incorruptible
Interpretation: The Gods are not comprised of material
elements such as humans and animals, so as to corrupt. Their incorruptibility
bears no relation with the incorruptibility of matter, in the sense of
continuous regeneration of corruptible material. The Gods do not corrupt;
therefore they neither regenerate nor revive.
Dogma 5ο : The Gods are absolutely equal among
themselves
Interpretation: The essence of the Gods is one and only
in the Universe. There is nothing else which may bear resemblance toward the
Gods. The fact that the Gods are absolutely and solely alike unto themselves,
means that nothing can be compared with the Gods.
Dogma 6ο : The true Being is uniform
Interpretation: The true Being is the embodiment of all
the forms that the Gods take, and each God is one form/aspect of the true
Being. There is no question raised about “one or many Gods”. In the Gods a
combination exists of multiplicity and unity.
Dogma 7ο : The Gods do not have male or female form
Interpretation: The male and female forms of the Gods
exist only so man can more easily perceive the aspects of the Divine. In the
Gods there is no male or female in the sense of anthropomorphism, that is to
say, with genetic molecules and human characteristics. However, the Gods take
human form when they want to reveal themselves to the pious Hellenes.
Dogma 8ο : The Gods are Omnipresent
Interpretation: The Gods are independent from space. The
Gods are not restricted by geographical, national, ideological, cultural and
tribal borders. Everywhere, at any point of the World a believer may find
himself/herself, he/she may call upon Them and They will respond. Those who
restrict the power of the Gods to various kinds of borders, blaspheme the Gods
themselves.
Dogma 9ο : The Gods are Omniscient
Interpretation: The Gods see, hear and know all. The
Gods can hear all the humans of Earth. The Gods can answer to humans
concurrently in the language that each person comprehends. The Gods can see and
record all the deeds of humans that are done concurrently at a single point in
time.
Dogma 10ο : The Gods are Omnipotent
Interpretation: The Gods can do everything. There is
nothing above Them, nor something that can hinder them. The Gods can bring time
backward or forward.
Even if all the Worlds are lost, just as several Worlds
were lost in the history of the Universe, the Gods will continue to exist.
Nothing can overcome them, because there is nothing more powerful than the
Immortal Gods.
Dogma 11ο : The Gods are the union of Creator and
Creation
Interpretation: The Gods do not lie outside, but neither
inside, the Universe and the Worlds. The Gods fulfill the Universe and the
Worlds. It is impossible for the Gods to lie outside the Universe and the
Worlds, because nothing exists outside the Universe. The Universe is without
beginning and without end. The Universe should not be viewed as a sphere
outside of which something can stand.
Nor do the Gods lie inside the Universe, because they
are not smaller than Their Creation. The Creator adjoins without identifying
with the Creation.
Dogma 12ο : The Gods are not natural forces
Interpretation: With the term “natural forces”, we mean
gravity, electricity, and others. A natural force does not have consciousness
or will, something that is contrary to the particular constitution of the
Divine Beings. Whoever identifies the Gods with natural forces harms humanity
and his/her intelligence. He/she vilifies the Gods.
Dogma 13ο : The Power of the Gods is the absolute
survival instinct within man, and not an acquired characteristic
Interpretation: The Gods reside within man. Their power
constitutes for man an intrinsic, hereditary survival instinct just like
respiration. The Faith in the existence of the Gods does not constitute an
acquired characteristic. It is inherent.
Dogma 14ο : The Gods are not archetypes
Interpretation: An archetype is the content of the
collective unconscious, according to Carl Jung. Jung speaks of
universal-collective images of the psyche that are inherited from generation to
generation. But the Gods teach us that they exist regardless of what man
believes or whether man exists. Their Power is revealed as an intrinsic
instinct within man. But in no case do they constitute a collective thought form,
as Jung asserts.
Dogma 15ο : The Gods are not symbols
Interpretation: The Gods exist regardless of whether man
honors them. Consequently, whether humans do not make sacrifices to the Gods,
whether they do not make them statues, whether they do not make them Temples,
the Gods exist. Human symbols constitute means of human expression and
comprehension of the Divine Mysteries and are never identified with the Gods.
Dogma 16ο : The Gods are not deified concepts, nor
ideas
Interpretation: In ancient Hellas, the Ancestors of the
Hellenes honored certain concepts as Sacred. Justice, Wisdom, Zeal, Force, and
Victory were considered sacred concepts. However, it is not permitted to
confuse the properties, characteristics and powers of the Gods with the Gods.
Otherwise we reach the ridiculous conclusion that we deified Wisdom and named
it Goddess Athena. This constitutes utmost hubris.
The Ancestors of the Hellenes had the tendency to
elevate the Sacred concepts toward the Gods, but never to relegate the Gods
toward the Sacred concepts. They honored Wisdom with homages that were
sometimes specific to Gods. But they never downgraded the Gods to the level of
the Sacred concept "Wisdom".
Justice is a property of the Gods, it is not a god. The
homages of humans toward Justice, at the level of a god, do not convert the
concept of Justice to a goddess. Themis is a Goddess and has as her main
characteristic Justice. This proves that the Sacred concepts are not gods.
Dogma 17ο : The Gods are not deified humans
Interpretation: The blasphemy of the Euhemerists, that
the Gods are allegedly deified humans, never held a place in the Hellenic
Religion. It constitutes the position of the atheists and the enemies of
humanity. Incarnated Gods have existed and will exist, but never deified
humans. If some fraudsters deify themselves or deify other fraudsters, for this
the Gods are not at fault.
Such actions do not downgrade the Gods to the level of
man; on the contrary, they downgrade the deified human to the level of
fraudster. Fraudsters do not constitute a source of knowledge concerning things
of Gods and the World.
Dogma 18ο : The Essence of the Gods is unknown to
humans
Interpretation: The substance-matter from which the Gods
are composed of, is impossible to be known by humans. And whoever says that
he/she knows the essence of the Gods is a liar and a blasphemer. The essence of
the Immortal Gods is known only by the Immortal Gods. No one else.
We know as humans that it is not about immaterial Beings
in the sense of non-existence or an absolute vacuum. Because nothing can exist
or originate from nothing.
Dogma 19ο : The Gods are Beings with consciousness and
will
Interpretation: The Gods are not apathetic, nor are they
uninvolved in human affairs, as certain blasphemers claim. They have
consciousness and will uninfluenced by external causes. However, they turn
Their attention toward the faithful who make sacrifices and pay homages to them
requesting for Their help.
Dogma 20ο : The Gods are Judges and Punishers of evil,
and never generators of evil
Interpretation: The Gods relentlessly punish the evil
done by humans in the World. Justice constitutes an exclusive property of theirs.
The Gods allow evil to exist so that man can choose between virtue and vice.
Dogma 21ο : Evil exists in the world so the Gods can
demonstrate their Greatness
Interpretation: Evil existed, exists, and will exist, especially as a deified entity inferior to the Immortal Gods. This is recognized by the doctrine of the Hellenic Religion despite the nonsense that is disseminated by certain contemporary heretics. Typhoeus, Alastor, Lamia and Mormo constitute manifestations of Evil that continually change form in order to deceive the pious.
Interpretation: Evil existed, exists, and will exist, especially as a deified entity inferior to the Immortal Gods. This is recognized by the doctrine of the Hellenic Religion despite the nonsense that is disseminated by certain contemporary heretics. Typhoeus, Alastor, Lamia and Mormo constitute manifestations of Evil that continually change form in order to deceive the pious.
It is because of the existence of Evil that that the
Gods display Their Greatness and Power. Evil does not exist so as to make
humans tremble, but so that they avoid it.
Dogma 22ο : The Destiny and Free Will of man co-exist,
without there being a contradiction
Interpretation: In the Hellenic Religion there is no
conflict between Destiny and Free Will. If there were only Destiny, then humans
would have no free choice in their lives; they would be prey, blind instruments
at the hands of the Gods.
If there were no Divine Providence-Destiny-Fate, then humans would be able to do whatever they wanted, without ever being punished for the damage caused to fellow human beings and to Nature.
If there were no Divine Providence-Destiny-Fate, then humans would be able to do whatever they wanted, without ever being punished for the damage caused to fellow human beings and to Nature.
Not only do Destiny and Free Will not conflict in the
Hellenic Religion, but they also complement each other and co-exist
harmoniously.
Dogma 23ο : Miracles constitute the Revelation of
Divine Omnipotence
Interpretation: The Miracle does not contradict nor does
it identify with the natural laws. Miracles are revelations of the Power of the
Gods and do not contest Nature, just as Nature does not contest the Gods.
Dogma 24ο : The Epiphany of the Gods is made through
Their appearance to humans, wherever and whenever the Gods want to, with
whichever form the Gods want
Interpretation: The living and true Gods reveal
themselves continuously. Otherwise they are not true or living Gods. The Gods
are not speechless or motionless. The Gods do not neglect humans, animals and
plants. However, they appear in a form that many times is not comprehended by
humans; nor are they made known to humans, because that's how they choose to do
things. There are Epiphanies of Gods for which we know everything, and
Epiphanies of Gods for which we know nothing or very little.
Dogma 25ο : The Gods are not identical with the
World-Nature
Interpretation: The Gods, when they want to, and if they
want to, reside inside trees, rivers and mountains. However, this does not mean
that the tree, mountain or river is a god. Pantheism is irreconcilable with the
Hellenic Religion. Pantheism constitutes the degeneration and leveling of the
concept of the Divine Being. Because by leveling everything, saying everything
is god, Euhemerism is introduced through the backdoor. Since trees, rivers and
mountains are gods, then man is also a god. Something that constitutes utmost
blasphemy.
Dogma 26ο : The Gods are invisible, shapeless and infinite
Dogma 26ο : The Gods are invisible, shapeless and infinite
Interpretation: The Gods do not have a specific shape,
nor are they visible or able to be confined to something. Humans, having a
limited intellect, many times give them human form in their statues. They do
this so they can have some symbol of worship during their Sacred Rituals, but
in no case should someone imagine that the Gods have a specific form, or that
they are visible to human eyes, or that someone can confine them within some
space.
The Gods are infinite; they take up all space and contain all space, never the reverse.
Dogma 27ο : The Gods do not have human passions
The Gods are infinite; they take up all space and contain all space, never the reverse.
Dogma 27ο : The Gods do not have human passions
Interpretation: Whenever an author appears in Hellenic
Theology to attribute passions to the Gods, in actuality he is attributing his
own passions and weaknesses to the Gods. Nevertheless, the Gods are Perfect,
independently of what Homer, Aristophanes or Lucian wrote and under what sense
they wrote it.
Love affairs, jealousies and murders have the human seal of the author and never constitute the seal of the Gods. Exception to this are the Mysteries, where for example the divine infant-Dionysus is mauled by the Titans, because there, through allegory and symbolism, the meaning of the Divine Mysteries is revealed.
Humans were, are, and will be imperfect. The Gods were, are, and will be Perfect. The Gods are not harmed by human follies, although humans are punished by the Gods for their blasphemies.
Love affairs, jealousies and murders have the human seal of the author and never constitute the seal of the Gods. Exception to this are the Mysteries, where for example the divine infant-Dionysus is mauled by the Titans, because there, through allegory and symbolism, the meaning of the Divine Mysteries is revealed.
Humans were, are, and will be imperfect. The Gods were, are, and will be Perfect. The Gods are not harmed by human follies, although humans are punished by the Gods for their blasphemies.
Dogma 28ο : Nature is Sacred, Animate, Conscious and
Inviolable, but not a god
Interpretation: Nature, without constituting a god, is the proof and revelation of the Gods. Nature as animate and conscious, proves that there are beings that do not have human form but have higher consciousness than humans.
Therefore, Nature is Sacred and Inviolable, and its abuse by humans constitutes blasphemy against the Gods. The abuse of Nature is punished together with the denial of the Gods as the two greatest crimes that a human can commit.
Dogma 29ο : The Gods do not have a cause of creation and are self-existent
Interpretation: The Gods are the first Principle. They are the cause for the creation of everything. The Gods deny all boundaries and restrictions. The Gods preclude every kind of imperfection unto Themselves.
Interpretation: Nature, without constituting a god, is the proof and revelation of the Gods. Nature as animate and conscious, proves that there are beings that do not have human form but have higher consciousness than humans.
Therefore, Nature is Sacred and Inviolable, and its abuse by humans constitutes blasphemy against the Gods. The abuse of Nature is punished together with the denial of the Gods as the two greatest crimes that a human can commit.
Dogma 29ο : The Gods do not have a cause of creation and are self-existent
Interpretation: The Gods are the first Principle. They are the cause for the creation of everything. The Gods deny all boundaries and restrictions. The Gods preclude every kind of imperfection unto Themselves.
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