The Collection of Belief

The Collection of Belief: A Guide to Worship

Historian's note: Although most of this text is known by many, only the first chapter has been recorded from the original text, as of yet.

Chapter 1

Worship

¹ Worship is the act of thanking, glorifying, obeying, or praising a being more deserving or powerful than ourselves. ² There are many ways to perform acts of worship. Most are ritualistic and futile in nature. ³ The purpose of this book is to provide a guide and foundation to the correct form of worship of worship ⁴ that pleases gods, celestials, demons, and other beings of immense power. Worship that can reap rewards and blessings from those with power.

⁵ Worship is a state of mind, not a state of body. What you do for worship is worthless without faith. ⁶ Any act can provide an outcome, but with belief in a power, creates power. ⁷ I claim not that we give power to ourselves, but our belief allows for a holy power to be granted to us. ⁸ We can only be vessels for a greater energy; we can not create it ourselves. ⁹ With worship, we can let gifted power flow through us and do many wonderful and dangerous things.

¹⁰ Worship is the language of the heart, a language more universal than the tongue of creation. ¹¹ Our souls are for worship, that we may go to where we believe the end is. For it is in that place hearts lie. Worship is love, and the language of the heart. ¹² Love of another being, another power, is worship. ¹³ Some worship with words and actions, with the body. ¹⁴ But proper worship; Proper worship, the holiest art, is the combination of mind, body, and soul. Without the others are meaningless, utterly meaningless.

¹⁵ How one worships, chooses the power to be given to us. Not that we choose, but we simply ask. ¹⁶ Ask and receive, ¹⁷ if the art is pleasurable. ¹⁸Worship produces power, in ourselves, and in the worshiped. ¹⁹ The worshiped gains power, when the worshipers gain numbers. The following grows in strength, by growing in size.