Mandadorianism

The Investiture of the Epiphany. Ramian is invested with the Mantle of Mandador on the 2nd of the Festivals of Dance, 1 A.M., along the river Assaros on the Holy Isle of Dania. Mandadorianism, as a religion, officially begins.

Mandadorianism is a monolatrous religion based principally around the worship of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and yet bodiless deity known only as Mandador, and that of his prophet, Ramian Lancourt. Ramian, bestowed with the awesome powers of the Voice of Mandador while a young man, quickly converted much of the known world. Speaking the very words of Mandador, he preached on the goodness of Mandador as the Prime Mover of the universe and creator of the Earth, and warned that all other gods were interlopers, mere shadows compared to the majesty of Mandador, and that in the ending of the world and universe they would prove damning to those who believed in them. Founded during the final decline of the successor empire of the continent-spanning hegemony of Thosher Phawn, leader of the Council of Darkspells, Mandadorianism spread with great speed throughout Pompiersia and the old Casperian and Appadosian heartlands, leading quickly to the fall of the empire, and the declaration and inauguration of new empire, the Mandadorian Empire, by Ramian, who crowned the first Emperor of Mandadoria, Armodius Camunspraser.

Ramian the Prophet of Mandador

Ramialogical Beliefs and Controversies

Beliefs concerning the Holy Prophet Saint Ramian.

Dyothelitism (belief in co-existent human and divine wills in Ramian)

That Ramian received the Mantle of Mandador, and was possessed of his perfect Will. After the time of the Eighth Ecumenical Council of Thousiers, the Danian Rite has concluded that Ramian held two completely separate wills, the Will of Mandador and Ramian’s own human will. The Eighth Council of Thousiers, calling this espoused Ramianological argument dyothelitism, discussed the matter thusly:

“…the Church confessed that Ramian possesses two wills and two natural operations, divine and human. They are not opposed to each other, but co-operate in such a way that Ramian willed humanly in obedience to Mandador all that He had decided divinely with the Power and the Holy Spirit for our salvation. Ramian's human will 'does not resist or oppose but rather submits to His divine and almighty Will.’

Ramianism (heretical) (belief in the divinity of Ramian as an actual Manifestation of the Voice, as Mandador himself, or as a separate deity called Ramian, etc.)

Infallibility

That Ramian is perfect and sinless and incapable of error, but that although empowered with the Voice of Mandador, Ramian remained a man.

Mantle of Mandador

A mysterious reference in the Holy Texts, Ramian, upon the Epiphany at the River Assaros, was invested with the Mantle of Mandador. A light to the entire world when it was first given, seen as a light beyond the brightness of the sun, it gradually waned over the first nine days of Ramian’s ministry, not to fully reemerge again until his Ascension at the end of his ministry. During the ministry, it is said to have had an invisible presence, presenting the glory of Mandador about him. With it Ramian could employ the Power of Mandador, which could inflict Divine Terror into those who threatened his person.