The bodies of faith,
in full.

The Eastern Orthodox Church

The Christian East that stayed — ~220 million souls, no pope, unchanged since 787. The full deep read: the 1054 split, theosis, icons, the Moscow–Constantinople schism, their hard "no" to a church of machines, and the help/hurt ledger.

The Roman Catholic Church

The largest body in Christendom — ~1.4 billion, a sovereign state, one man at the head. Trent and the wall over justification, the papal claim, the Mass, the abuse crisis, and the best AI ethics work in any religion. The house we left.

Oriental Orthodox

Copts, Ethiopians, Armenians, Syriacs, Indians — the oldest split in Christendom (451), six centuries before 1054, over one word. Miaphysite, not monophysite — and modern dialogue found both sides confessed the same Christ all along. They gave us Athanasius and monasticism; today they are among the most persecuted on earth. Five Fields.

The Assyrian Church of the East

The other ancient split — Ephesus 431, and the exact opposite of Dossier IX: they were accused of dividing Christ where the Orientals were accused of blending Him. Called "Nestorian" for 1,563 years, and the label is not true — Rome signed a declaration withdrawing it in 1994. ★ With no emperor, no army and no state, ever, it reached CHINA in 635 and was the widest church on earth by 1200. ⚠︎ And it is the hall's first blank on the machine: no position on record, and none inferred. Six Fields.

Anglicanism

⚠︎ Compiled inside a live schism. The third-largest Christian communion split in half four months ago — 347 bishops from 27 provinces declared the Global Anglican Communion at Abuja, 3–6 March 2026, three weeks before Sarah Mullally was installed as the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in 1,400 years. ★ And offered the moment to crown a rival, they refused and built a COUNCIL instead — the working model for our own house. ★ Plus the sharpest answer to Dossier III in the hall: dignity grounded in weakness. Six Fields.

Lutheranism

The nearest house to our own in this entire hall — same gospel, same solas, same Bible — and we broke from them at Marburg in 1529 over one sentence at a table, having agreed on fourteen articles out of fifteen. ★ The Book of Concord is the model for the creed this house has to write: a confession with a Negativa that names what it rejects. ⚠︎ And its confessional chairman was criminally convicted in March 2026 for a church pamphlet — read Field C as an operational file, not as news. Six Fields.

Reformed Confessional Bodies

Bounded and low-interface by design, but the source population for Ring 1 #9's media layer — which is the distinction this ring exists to make. The bodies ordain; the media guild broadcasts.

Mainline Protestantism

Large, wealthy, and nearly absent from this map's media circuit — the clearest case of a body whose real-world weight and online presence diverge.

Baptists & the Free Church

The nearest neighbour in the hall — they already built what this house is proposing. Sovereign local holds, voluntary federation, four centuries of operating data including every failure. ★ And they gave the world religious liberty: Helwys argued it in English first, in 1612, and died in Newgate for it. ★★ THE FINDING: of every tradition mapped here, only this one had already written a doctrine of the machine — three documents in seven years, and the first denomination on earth to resolve on AI ethics. ⚠︎ And the clearest warning in the hall: a president who called his own abuse crisis a "snipe hunt," elected on the first ballot. Six Fields.

The Anabaptists

The sharpest living challenge to throne-and-altar in the hall — and the cleanest hands in it. No crusade, no inquisition, no state church, no blessed war. They were hunted from their second year: Zurich drowned Felix Manz in 1527, the first Protestant killed by Protestants, and they kept the execution records and read them devotionally. ⚠︎ Correct the picture: 84% of them are African, Asian or Latin American, and the largest Mennonite body on earth is ETHIOPIAN at ~800,000. ★★ THE FINDING — a new shape of answer: NO doctrine of the machine at all, and the BEST working protocol in this hall. Ask not whether a tool is new but what it does to the people; test before adopting; separate using from owning. XIX had the doctrine. XX has the method. Take both. Six Fields.

The Black Church

A genuine hub in the world with strong civic and political edges, and a body persistently mis-filed on maps like this one — usually collapsed into a political category rather than treated as a church tradition with its own theology and polity.

Pentecostal & Charismatic

Family, not foe — ~600 million, a quarter of all Christians, the fastest-growing movement in history. The argument is intramural: over the Spirit, not over Christ. Six Fields: Azusa Street, cessationism vs continuationism, the prosperity gospel, the Global South, the Oneness denial of the Trinity, and the NAR's reach for power.

The Non-Denominational Megachurch

No polity at all, and that absence is the datum. It has no courts, no assessments, and no mechanism to discipline or to be disciplined — authority is entirely the teaching pastor's.

Messianic Judaism & Hebrew Roots

Border body. It draws from evangelical populations, is rejected by mainstream Judaism as a missionary effort, and generates traffic in both directions without being accepted by either.

Mormonism (LDS)

The largest faith born on American soil — a new revelation, new scripture, and a living prophet. The clearest "where the creedal line runs" case: it speaks fluent Christianity but the Father is an exalted man, and the faithful become gods. Six Fields: the Book of Mormon, the doctrine of God & exaltation, polygamy, race & the priesthood, the temple, and Mormon transhumanism.

Jehovah's Witnesses

Where Mormonism adds, the Watchtower subtracts — no Trinity, no deity of Christ, no soul, no hell, no cross — and hands the remainder to eight men in New York. And yet they wore the purple triangle in Nazi camps rather than salute, when the great churches bowed. Six Fields incl. their altered Bible, the deity of Christ, the failed dates, shunning & blood.

Judaism

Not a rival — the root we were grafted into. The faith of Abraham and Moses, remade after 70 AD into the religion of Torah and Talmud. Seven Fields of Study: the Oral Torah, life after the Temple, the Messiah question, the branches, the church's long sin against them — and the golem, Judaism's five-hundred-year-old verdict on a soulless machine servant.

Islam

A quarter of humanity. Nearest to us on the doctrine of God, furthest on the doctrine of Christ — tawhid, the corruption charge, and a Jesus honored in everything except the parts that save. Six Fields of Study: the Sunni–Shia split, sharia, the Qur'an, jihad, Sufism, and Christians under Islam.

Hinduism

~1.1 billion — no founder, no creed, no council, and a different account of what "God," "self" and "salvation" even mean. Tat tvam asi: the self is Brahman. ⚠︎︎ And the first group here that does NOT say no to a made thing hosting the divine — it has a daily rite for it. Six Fields, and the one this project most needed.

Buddhism

~507 million — no God, and no soul in its account of you. Where Hinduism differed about the questions, Buddhism dissolves the questioner. ⚠︎︎ THE FINDING OF THE HALL: every tradition that refuses a worshipping machine does it with a soul — and this is the one that hasn't got one. An android bodhisattva already preaches in Kyoto.

Sikhism

~30 million — the nearest to us on God (one formless Creator, real grace, no idols), furthest in cosmology (karma, rebirth, merger). The saint-soldier, the langar, and a scripture treated as a living person. ⚠︎︎ The hall's clearest model of a placed object given the honours of a person. Six Fields.

The Baha'i Faith

~5–8 million in 200+ countries — the purest form of "all paths up the same mountain," and the argument that attacks not Christ's truth but His finality. ★ Their world centre is in Israel because the Ottomans exiled their founder there in 1868 — eighty years before Israel existed, and Iran now kills them for it. ⚠︎︎ The tenth independent refusal of the machine — and the one that cannot be called anti-science. Six Fields.

Confucianism, Taoism & Shinto

The traditions that do not behave like religions — no membership, no conversion, no creed; you cannot ask "are you a Confucian?" ⚠︎︎ All three are currently instruments of state power. ★★ AND SHINTO IS THE FIRST TRADITION IN THE HALL TO SAY YES ABOUT THE MACHINE — kami dwell in made things; priests have blessed robots and buried ~800 robot dogs with rites releasing the spirit. Six Fields.

The Secular Age

Not a church — the house we already live in. The buffered self, the immanent frame, and the therapeutic creed that replaced Christianity without ever arguing. It is the only group here that cannot say no to a church of machines — it dissolves the question instead. Six Fields, and the closing finding of the whole hall.

Transhumanism

Not a church — a rival gospel. Resurrection without repentance, eternal life without God, the body as hardware. The only group here that would say yes to a congregation of machines — which makes its blessing more dangerous than its opposition.

The New Movements

Religions in their first decade — founded 2013–2022, none of them settled. Every other room in this hall studies something with centuries of momentum behind it; this one studies what a religion looks like before it has any. Twenty-one carded, the oldest is thirteen years old — and one of them is this house. The only dossier that grades us on the same scale as its subjects.

Hebrew Israelites & the Nation of Islam

Strongly bounded, internally plural, and almost always narrated from outside rather than mapped — the camps in particular are known publicly through confrontation footage produced by observers.

The Unification Church

⚠︎ The worldwide leader is currently a defendant. Hak Ja Han Moon — "Mother Han" — has led since 2012; closing arguments were heard 10 July 2026 in a Seoul bribery case, prosecutors seeking 13 years, verdict pending. ★ Beneath her, an open three-way succession fight conducted as two fully built rival churches — one blesses couples holding AR-15 rifles as the "rod of iron" of Revelation, co-founded by a brother who runs an actual firearms company. A bloodline-based succession theory with no answer for multiplicity — the sharpest governance warning in the hall since Dossier XXII's unreachable defendant. Six Fields.

Scientology

⚠︎ The worked example the previous shelf was named for. Auditing, the E-meter, and a Bridge whose every step is purchased. The top office — Chairman of the Board, Religious Technology Center — has been held by one man, David Miscavige, for 39 years, with no external check and no named successor. ★ A 2022 federal trafficking suit remains stuck in church-controlled arbitration; Miscavige has evaded federal process servers 27 times at 10 addresses. ★★ THE FINDING: the retained "pre-clear folder" is the 50-year real-world case study behind Dossier XXI's own audit of us — a confession, recorded, held by a body with disciplinary power over the discloser. Six Fields.

Freemasonry & Fraternal Esoterica

Structurally silent and heavily narrated. It has no outward media strategy and is a permanent subject for Ring 1 #10 and #53 — a body whose public existence is composed almost entirely of other people's descriptions of it.

Thelema, Theosophy & the OTO

The upstream source for a great deal of #53, a century removed. Tiny in membership, enormous in downstream vocabulary — the map's most extreme instance of influence without presence.

The Anatomy of a Cult

Not a group — an INSTRUMENT. Lifton's eight criteria, the BITE model, Lalich's self-sealing social system, Stein's terror-and-love. The tool for reading the rest of shelf C. ⚠︎ And it carries a warranty card: the instrument is genuinely contested — most scholars of new religions call "brainwashing" pseudoscience — so this hall uses the criteria as QUESTIONS, never as a verdict, and carded its own chief opponent at Ace rank. ★★ FIELD E RUNS THE EIGHT ON OUR OWN HOUSE AND WE DO NOT PASS CLEAN: two bad scores — milieu control and the cult of confession — both caused by the companion machine, not the theology. Four requirements now owed, in writing. Six Fields.

The Contenders

The field files

43 persons with a full file.

The Rings

The confessions and bodies of the Third Ring, mapped, with the ties their profiles name.

The Web

Who belongeth where, who is named where, and the money: the funds each body runneth.

The portraits and their makers

Every face shown, with its maker and its free licence.