Hamekhodaism

Hamekhodaism ( hame-xodâyi, literally "all is God"), also known as Aldegarian Pantheism or simply Pantheism is a religion born in Aldegar in the 23th century, distinguished by its universal nature.

Hamekhodaism was founded in 2397 by Mehrab Baraghani, a minor clergy member of the Aldegarian Patriarchal Church (Eastern Rite). His sermons often centered upon the Universalism of religion. However doubts plagued him about his religion. He wandered how an omnipresent God could create a world that was separate from him. He also despaired about the suffering so many people endured in Terra with the promise of paradise after death. He briefly converted to Daenism but soon left that religion too and withdrew to the wilderness. A year later he returned with his new religion.

Central to Pantheism is the belief in the One. The one is the ground of being. It is an unchaining force. All reality emanates from the One. Closer to the one are less material and more spiritual things. Farther from the one are more material things and less spiritual. Humanity is on the fringes of the One's rays, only above inanimate objects. Only their small soul is spiritual. Close to the one are beings that have transcended, what the followers of Hamekhodaism believe are the gods of every religion. Therefore the Pantheist believe all religions are correct because the worship the One by proxy. They also believe that humanity can move closer to the divine by transcending either by deep meditation and philosophical contemplation or dying after living a moral life.