Entries gathered under Cosmology & Concepts — 17 in the canon.
- Compulsive Disenchantment — Compulsive Disenchantment is the Herd of God's name for the spiritual condition it exists to reverse. It describes a compulsion, ambient in the modern world, to contain reality…
- Gnosis — Gnosis is the embodied knowledge of the nature and structure of reality that the Herd offers through ritual experience rather than argument. It is one of the three things the gr…
- Merkavah Ascent — Merkavah Ascent refers to the tradition of chariot-mysticism from which the Herd draws part of its model of The Rite of Ascent — the ascent of the mystic through the heavens tow…
- Qliphoth (the Husk) — Qliphoth (singular qliphah), meaning "husks" or "shells," are, in Kabbalah, the shards of matter in which fallen sparks of divine light are trapped. The Herd uses the term for t…
- Ritual Sacrifice — Ritual Sacrifice is, in the Herd's account of the origins, the first practice by which humanity kept the gods alive — slaking their thirst for attention with an offering. The sc…
- Severity — Severity is the limiting, bounding principle that contains the angels — most especially Madness — within the tangible order. It is identified with the body of The Calf, understo…
- The Age of Taurus — The Age of Taurus is the epoch the Herd regards as the origin of the worship of The Calf — the era of the bull god, the most archaic divinity on the human record. During his fou…
- The Calf — The Calf is the first and final god of the Herd of God, worshipped in its innocent precursor form as the calf and in its mature form as the bull. The Herd teaches that it is the…
- The Cosmic Tree — The Cosmic Tree is the Herd of God's model of reality, adapted from the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. It holds that reality descends as light through ten stations, from a single sou…
- The Crown — The Crown is the summit of The Cosmic Tree, where The Calf sleeps, "locked in an eternal dream." The scribes call it "a nexus of exquisite density" — the place where the most pr…
- The Diluted Counterfeits — The Diluted Counterfeits are the thin, safe versions of The Eight Angels that the disenchanted age accepts in place of the real faculties. The Herd catalogs them as a diagnosis…
- The Gift World — The Gift World is the reality the Herd of God seeks to enter through The Rite of Ascent — the congregation's version of Tikkun Olam, and its answer to Compulsive Disenchantment.…
- The Holding Pen of the Calf — The Holding Pen of the Calf is the ordering principle by which The Eight Angels are balanced against one another. Each angel, the Herd teaches, can enchant reality on its own, b…
- The Next Level of Evolution Beyond Human — The Next Level of Evolution Beyond Human is the Herd's name for the transformation it believes is imminent — a threshold the group also calls "the strange new world." Humanity,…
- The Wall Street Bull — The Wall Street Bull is the bronze bull of the financial district, which the Herd regards as the degraded, present-day avatar of The Calf — the first god reduced to a mascot for…
- Tikkun Olam — Tikkun Olam — "repair of the world" — is the Kabbalistic doctrine the Herd adapts to describe its own project. In the source teaching, God contracted to make room for creation a…
- Tree of Life (Sephirot) — The Tree of Life, or Sephirot, is the Kabbalistic structure from which the Herd derives The Cosmic Tree. In Kabbalah, each of its ten nodes is an emanation from a divine source…