Post by Tami on Aug 5, 2006 18:54:49 GMT -5
PATH OF METAMORPHOSIS
Nickname: metamorphosists or freaks
Hierarchy of Sins
Rating Moral guideline
10..................Postponing feeding when hungry
9……………Indulging in pleasure
8……………Deferring to another for knowledge
7……………Sharing knowledge with another
6……………Refusing to kill when knowledge can be gained
5……………Failing to ride out a frenzy
4……………Considering the needs of others
3……………Failure to experiment, even at your own risk.
2……………Neglecting to alter your own body
1……………Exhibiting compassion for others
Ethics of the Path
• Learn the characteristics of all stages of life and death. Vampires, as embodiments of both stages’ qualities, must evolve along the tree of death as well as life. Death is perhaps only the protozoa-stage of unimaginable states of being, which a truly enlightened Cainite must learn and assimilate
• One should not overly concern oneself with mortals. They are a step below the Children of Caine, not as step above. In retaining bipedal posture, binocular vision, opposable thumbs and cause/effect cognitive processing a Cainite has taken all she generally needs from her former existence. Mortals sometimes aid vampires by accomplishing valuable intellectual breakthroughs, but most such reasoning applies to mortal servitors and networks with little effort, much like logging onto the internet.
• Do not share knowledge with others, as it is too valuable to trust to a flawed creature like one’ self. This tenet is perhaps the most indicative of Tzimicse paranoia that enlightenment development, as it seems of limited utility. Nonetheless, the metamorphosist viewpoint is that all creatures – even other path followers – are ultimately objects of study. To impart knowledge and enlightenment to a lab rat is to corrupt the experiment. The rat will not act “naturally”
• Indulge in the beast, but deny it. True comprehension of unlife requires a broad range of experience. The Beast in of itself is like any other organ or system. If overtaxed or if the rest one’ self is allowed to atrophy, is it a detriment. If assimilated properly into the whole, exercised and nourished but not besotted or bloated, the Beast takes it place within the framework. Its perceptions, while simples, are often correct.
• One should alter and augment one’s body. Changing the flesh might pave the way towards changing the soul. As without, so within/ While altering one’s flesh in of itself does not lead to enlightenment, the act of experiencing the physical world through different body-lens can in turn to lead to innovative ways of thinking – or unthinking, as the case may be.
• Do not heed the needs or desires of others. Their lack of introspection may distract even the keenest of intellect. To remain ever aware of one’s own evolution, one must be continuously self-centered. Because one cannot evolve another being, that being’s needs are by definition an impediment to the true way.
Virtues: Followers on the Path of metamorphosis practice Conviction and Instinct.
Nickname: metamorphosists or freaks
Hierarchy of Sins
Rating Moral guideline
10..................Postponing feeding when hungry
9……………Indulging in pleasure
8……………Deferring to another for knowledge
7……………Sharing knowledge with another
6……………Refusing to kill when knowledge can be gained
5……………Failing to ride out a frenzy
4……………Considering the needs of others
3……………Failure to experiment, even at your own risk.
2……………Neglecting to alter your own body
1……………Exhibiting compassion for others
Ethics of the Path
• Learn the characteristics of all stages of life and death. Vampires, as embodiments of both stages’ qualities, must evolve along the tree of death as well as life. Death is perhaps only the protozoa-stage of unimaginable states of being, which a truly enlightened Cainite must learn and assimilate
• One should not overly concern oneself with mortals. They are a step below the Children of Caine, not as step above. In retaining bipedal posture, binocular vision, opposable thumbs and cause/effect cognitive processing a Cainite has taken all she generally needs from her former existence. Mortals sometimes aid vampires by accomplishing valuable intellectual breakthroughs, but most such reasoning applies to mortal servitors and networks with little effort, much like logging onto the internet.
• Do not share knowledge with others, as it is too valuable to trust to a flawed creature like one’ self. This tenet is perhaps the most indicative of Tzimicse paranoia that enlightenment development, as it seems of limited utility. Nonetheless, the metamorphosist viewpoint is that all creatures – even other path followers – are ultimately objects of study. To impart knowledge and enlightenment to a lab rat is to corrupt the experiment. The rat will not act “naturally”
• Indulge in the beast, but deny it. True comprehension of unlife requires a broad range of experience. The Beast in of itself is like any other organ or system. If overtaxed or if the rest one’ self is allowed to atrophy, is it a detriment. If assimilated properly into the whole, exercised and nourished but not besotted or bloated, the Beast takes it place within the framework. Its perceptions, while simples, are often correct.
• One should alter and augment one’s body. Changing the flesh might pave the way towards changing the soul. As without, so within/ While altering one’s flesh in of itself does not lead to enlightenment, the act of experiencing the physical world through different body-lens can in turn to lead to innovative ways of thinking – or unthinking, as the case may be.
• Do not heed the needs or desires of others. Their lack of introspection may distract even the keenest of intellect. To remain ever aware of one’s own evolution, one must be continuously self-centered. Because one cannot evolve another being, that being’s needs are by definition an impediment to the true way.
Virtues: Followers on the Path of metamorphosis practice Conviction and Instinct.