Mechanicus Insights

For those members of the laity in our contingent who seek to better comprehend my brethren and the Omnissiah, I provide these most basic concepts, simplified to aid in your understanding, if at cost to greater nuance.

First, the 16 Universal Laws, divided into the 8 Mysteries and the 8 Warnings:

The Mysteries of the Cult Mechanicus:

1. Life is directed motion.
2. The spirit is the spark of life.
3. Sentience is the ability to learn the value of knowledge.
4. Intellect is the understanding of knowledge.
5. Sentience is the basest form of Intellect.
6. Understanding is the True Path to Comprehension.
7. Comprehension is the key to all things.

The Omnissiah knows all, comprehends all.
The Warnings of the Cult Mechanicus:

1. The alien mechanism is a perversion of the True Path.
2. The soul is the conscience of sentience.
3. A soul can be bestowed only by the Omnissiah.
4. The Soulless sentience is the enemy of all.
5. The knowledge of the Ancients stands beyond question.
6. The Machine Spirit guards the knowledge of the Ancients.
7. Flesh is fallible, but ritual honours the Machine Spirit.
8. To break with ritual is to break with faith.

Next, concerning the names of Techpriests.