Rudu adEndo

The Dream Journal of Eosept Lengi may make reference to concepts from the Rudu adEndo, but this connection is somewhat open to interpretation due to the abstract styles of both texts. The Rudu may have also influenced the authors of An Exhortation to Wadoona given a shared subject in the analysis, synthesis, and parallelisms of sentient souls; Wadoona is known to be an artistic pastiche of Esotericist beliefs adapted for the consideration of mysticism-minded New Voxelian audiences, and there is no more distant a work from the culturally-dominant orthodox Unexpector beliefs than the Rudu.

The Rudu adEndo is an esoteric text within an esoteric religion; while there are no legal strictures on possessing the document or perusing it through sources like libraries or temple collections, it is not broadly discussed beyond those already 'in the know' about the deeper mysteries of the faith and, as such, has seen only a fraction of the exposure more accessible works like the Ixaba enjoy. Most copies of the Rudu are yellowing with age and require some interpretation due to the archaic nature of the language used within. Newer, annotated versions of the text are available for clerical or academic use via publishing houses owned by clerical families.

O ovkirie asixelire, oleusnus ileusixia ato rankele adroqol adendo! Olaqitrudu asrai tobur, a olixrudu asuxrai ilato dasung! Ato Ixoviotelire ranagnarom iasot Ixoviotelire ato agranarom.

— Rudu adEndo, The Skin of Reason

  The Esotericist faith holds that the spirit of Rostrans is polycameral - that is to say, that what makes a person themselves is a coalescence of several physical and spiritual forces which, though tied together, can also be examined individually through their contributions to the 'ova asixotasaxa' (the 'man in whole spirit'). The physical body is an emanation of the eternal spirit, the limbs of which may intersect with the ancestors and great spirits of the broader cosmogony, while the deeds and structures left behind in the current cycle live on in their own ways only until the Curved Time comes anew. At the intersections between spirit-forms, the distinction between individuals can become blurred; the practice of ritual sigils is an attempt to encourage such blending and, though often done for temporal purposes, perhaps to cause changes in both entities thereby.

Because of its obscure phrasing, the Rudu adEndo naturally engenders disagreements and debate about what it's actually trying to relay to the reader. Common consensus among Esotericists holds that, at the very least, the Rudu is an early expression of the idea of "parallel walks", the notion that there exists a synchronicity of events across isolated gulfs of space and, in the case of epicyclists, cycles of time.   The controverial part of the Rudu adEndo is the suggestion that two spirits may become so entwined (see History) through deep ritual practice that, in time and through a process of detailed 'mirroring,' each becomes a clone of the other. The uninitiated sometimes attempt to use snippets of the Rudu as part of nuptial ceremony, mistaking this congress and reduplication as being a metaphor for sexual reproduction, but a closer reading suggests that the two new 'mirror spirits' are entangled such that even the universe isn't certain which is which anymore and, thereby, a single person is treated by the universe as though they existed in two places at once. Since ancient spirits like Ixaumosana are vastly more powerful than those of simple hominids, this would obliterate the unwise practitioner completely and subsume them - physically, psychically, and spiritually - into the corpus of the greater spirit. Thus, while those of deep knowledge and faith may be tempted to use elements of the Rudu to attempt the great workings within for purposes like exercising direct psychic control over an enemy or directly binding themselves to spirits whose portfolios involve the hidden knowledge of the cosmos, the Hierophants exercise strong censure against such bindings - both to preserve orthodoxy should the text prove non-canonical and to protect the unwise from endangering themselves should the texts speak to something real in the Esotericist cosmogony.

The Rudu adEndo is the origin for a quasi-cannon spirit called Ixoviotelire. Ixiotelire means something like 'the divine man-object of the mirror' and represents the supplicant's own reflection elevated to a spiritual station beyond what he or she might achieve through supplication through another major spirit like Ixaumosana. This spirit is considered quasi-cannonical because, while a strong enough reservoir of belief among thinking beings is thought to have the power to instantiate a new spirit within the Curved Time to embody that belief, Ixoviotelire is an inversion of Esotericist dogma that one cannot become elevated to that station while still alive in the temporal world.