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HERALDING THE TRANSCENSION OF HUMANITY

Dictionary of Astroeschatology

This part of the Astronary covers a wide range of terminology relating to Astronist eschatology, the discipline concerned with the destiny of humankind and the afterlife in the astronomical world.

the Astronist conception of the present condition of humanity as standing at a crossroads between its devolution (the choice of Evenfall) or its transcension (the choice of vesperism).

Twilightide

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the final destination of the soul following transcosmisation, often conceptualised as an eternal existence in The Universe and as the optimum condition of the individual.

Ultimation

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one of three schools of thought of contiguant philosophy affirming contiguance as the necessary precursor to humanity’s achievement of transcension, typically with the specification a time period for which contiguance should have been reached or be underway unless the Degradation will otherwise occur.

Ultradefinitivism

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the principle regarding the nature of cosmosis as universal rather than conditional; that one’s experience of cosmosis upon death is not conditional to the fact of one’s achievement of astrosis during one’s lifetime. This principle of cosmosis is presently regarded as orthodoxy by most Astronists.

Universal cosmosis

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the principle regarding the nature of cosmosis as universal rather than conditional; that one’s experience of cosmosis upon death is not conditional to the fact of one’s achievement of astrosis during one’s lifetime. This principle of cosmosis is presently regarded as orthodoxy by most Astronists.

Universal cosmosis

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the concept that the mastery of the self is the key to the achievement of astrosis, considered in opposition to hypercosmocentrism.

Universe within

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a claimed astrosis without verification from the Astronist Institution, especially associated with astroses prior to The Founding of Astronism.

Unsanctioned astrosis

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the Astronist maxim implying that as humanity evolved from life that originated from among the stars, so it is the destiny of humans to return to the astronomical world. This maxim is often regarded among Astronists as an extension to or progression from the astrological motto “as above, so below.”

Up above, return again

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the process of giving a belief, an object, a story, an event, or a person, an astronomical theme.

Uranomisation

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denoting the instance of humanity or an individual soul having reached their optimum condition called the Ultimation as well as the process leading to the achievement of such a condition.

Veltosis

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the transcensional state or condition of humanity following the choice of vesperism during the Twilightide.

Vesperia

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one of two choices presented to humanity in Astronism during the Twilightide entailing both an embracement of humanity’s predetermination as well as its immersion into scope and stellancy so as to embark upon transcension and the struggle for Ultimation. Contrasted with evenfall.

Vesperism

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