“System?”
“That is the term for one who is not a god yet reaches the will of the heavens. Our goal is something beyond Level 5. We humans do not understand the truth of this world. However, that makes things simple. If someone who has a status above that of a human appeared, that person would be able to understand god’s response.”
“…”
Index’s movements stopped.
She recognized what she had just heard. Kabbalah had the concept of the Sephirot tree. It was a diagram with 10 levels that divided up the positions of humans, angels, and god. And on that Sephirot tree, the crucial position of god was nowhere to be found.
Ain Soph Aur, Ain Soph, Ain.
000, 00, 0.
As god’s territory could not be understood by humans and the concept could not be expressed by humans, it was not shown on the Sephirot tree.
However, a religious system had appeared to take advantage of that.
Their doctrine stated that, if humans could not understand, they merely had to gain bodies that surpassed those of humans.
They claimed that humans were gods in the process of being purified, so they could gain the bodies of gods and freely use the techniques of god by training themselves. They were the first mavericks of the Christian Church and they were even considered dangerous by the Apostle John.
It was known as Gnosticism.
“Ars Magna,” Himegami muttered while touching the large cross at her chest.
The man who had once used alchemy to reach Ars Magna had likely belonged to that ideology. After all, Ars Magna of alchemy was not the technique of turning lead to gold. It was the technique of sublimating a human soul that had been dulled like lead into an angel’s soul that was like gold.
Gnosticism was popular among those who strayed from the proper path in the occult because it involved usurping the power of god. Regardless of the differences in how they thought, humans all wanted to reach the same place.
Or…