According to the Catholic Church, he who has incurred occult excommunication (latae sententiae) should treat himself as excommunicated and be absolved as soon as possible, submitting to whatever conditions will be imposed upon him by the local Bishop. The Most Rev Dr Tallini has never sought absolution for his action of founding the schismatic Cesidian Church.

On 12 December 2005, Most Rev Dr Tallini also became a legally ordained minister through Rose Ministries, a non-denominational ministry committed to the rights of the individual to experience the divine according to their own personal beliefs. By this action Most Rev Dr Tallini became an apostate, another offence which in the Catholic faith incurs excommunication.

It is clear that Most Rev Dr Tallini was excommunicated lata sententia, having committed the triple offences of heresy, schism, and apostasy, yet under the Catholic Church's Code of Canon law Most Rev Dr Tallini is still considered a Christian, simply because he was baptised as a Catholic as an infant.

On 12 January 2006, Tallini became a City of New York Registered Marriage Officiant, and has thus the legal authority to marry any couple within New York State, where registration is not required of marriage officiants, and in New York City.

On 28 February 2007, Tallini became a Saint James College Certified Professional Chaplain (CPC).

On 17 April 2007, Tallini received the title of Bishop of the Cesidian Church, through an independent Church Charter granted by Saint Luke Evangelical Christian Ministries, a non-denominational church.

On 27 July 2007, Tallini earned a Bachelor of Science in Contemplative Psychology from William Cullen Bryant University, and is now also a licensed Ecclesiastical Counselor by the Church of Nobles of Present-Day Brethren.

Religious beliefs

Cesidianism is a political, economic, and religious philosophy. While this may seem a bit strange, it is not strange to a Cesidian. If one's religion is in contradiction with ones political and economic views, then integrity suffers. While this was the original belief of Most Rev Dr Tallini himself, he recently found evidence of the truth in this through a kind of "Holy Calculus" called Analytic theology.

Cesidianism is a complex creed. The neophytes may find it a little strange in the beginning since images or statues of both the Christ and the Buddha are treated with reverence by Cesidians, yet this oddity is easily explained. Cesidians believe that Christ and the Buddha are in actuality the same person, the same soul, who has lived in different places at different times. The Cesidian custom of reverence for both Christ and the Buddha are therefore fully rational in light of these views.

Cesidians have their very own calendar, the Cesidian calendar. This calendar is very different from the Gregorian calendar, and since it is also the basis of the Cesidian Sabbath, it is considered sacred. The Cesidian calendar is far more regular and perfect than the Gregorian calendar currently in use worldwide. This calendar is so ingenious and advanced that it has also produced cultural offshoots: from a Martian calendar, to Bucksfanian astrology, to a Fifth World Chronological Standard.

Cesidians don't believe so much in monarchy as a form of government, but in amphiarchy. Amphiarchy means "government of both kinds," that is, democratic and monarchical at the same time. Amphiarchy is like a marriage between the Monarch and his/her People, and like in any good marriage, there is a lot of give and take.

Cesidians economic beliefs do not incline them to favour either Capitalism or Marxism. Their economic ideas are now heavily derivative from Analytic theology, which predicts the possibility of paradisaical currencies and utopian socioeconomic conditions. Analytic theology is a new field of human endeavour with promising applications in many fields: Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Communication, Economics, Ethics, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Management, Medicine, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology, and Theology.

Cesidians believe that individual or family sovereignty is superior to corporate wealth or national welfare, and behave accordingly. Sovereignty costs little per se on the environment, yet provides a greater freedom. Those who believe wealth is more important than sovereignty ultimately lead their lives in a very materialist way. Sovereignty helps one appreciate the simpler things in life, so one can be largely happy and content without a great deal of wealth.

Cesidians also believe in the purity of the food they eat, like Jews or Muslims, but for Cesidians it is not pork that is necessarily bad, but Genetically modified (GM) foods. Cesidians find these unacceptable, and possibly even dangerous to the environment in the long term.

People who believe the dogmas of Cesidianism are part of the Cesidian Church at least informally, and are called Cesidians.

Religious syncretism

From a superficially religious perspective, Cesidianism is a syncretic religion, since it incorporates beliefs and customs that can be found in several major religions. Cesidians, for instance, celebrate Hanukkah just like the Jews, although they have slightly different customs in this regard, and follow the Cesidian calendar, not the Jewish calendar in pinpointing both the dates for Hanukkah, and when the Sabbath occurs. Cesidians also celebrate Christmas and Buddha's Birthday, although Christmas is not celebrated on the 25th of December, but on the 9th of October.

Yet Cesidianism is also far too novel in its credo to be a syncretic religion, so its syncretism is not deliberate theological adaptation, but simply the establishment or re-establishment of ritual which is suitable to encourage prayer and devotion. These, in turn, help one focus on Cesidianism's rational and brilliant truths.

Cesidian law

The 14 Commandments form the legalistic basis of Cesidianism, one that has real world applications, since by following the 14 Commandments one ensures 12 basic, yet comprehensive, human rights.

Despite the similarities here with Judaism, the 14 Commandments are also quite revolutionary, since they clearly define through derivative Bathetic (8), Fundamental (3), and Ultimate (1) rights what is truly important to a self-sufficient family, and to a self-sufficient nation. In turn, the 14 Commandments also speak about the rights specific to an individual, to a family, to a nation, and even the rights specific to God(s). Cesidianism actually states, and in an impressively rational way, what rights are most associated with an individual, family, nation, and Divine Being, thus providing some entirely rational legal foundations which are applicable even in the political or non-religious arena.

Cesidianism is also similar to Paganism since it has eight basic elements (traditional Pagans mention five), and these elements are called Bathetic elements. The Bathetic elements also form the basis for the symbol of Cesidianism, just as the symbol of Christianity is the cross: the Bathetic star. Like many Pagans, Cesidians also have a high regard for natural law, and they believe that religious rules that go contrary to natural law cannot be the products of an advanced or divine mind.

Cesidianism claims that there are seven principle virtues (Cesidian virtues), and most people are wrong in defining things like duty, prohibition, or ideology as virtues, since they are actually Cesidian virtues without love, so they aren't virtues at all. Cesidians argue that hope is a virtue, but the sense of entitlement with which it is often substituted today is not a virtue at all, or a virtue without love. Love is the Ultimate Virtue, and the Ultimate Right as well, according to Cesidians.

Cesidians believe in reincarnation just like Buddhists, but unlike Buddhists, they are also fully aware that men were created by advanced beings, and are thus subject to their authority and judgment. That which one creates, one rules, it is simply natural law, and it applies also to our Creator(s) in the view of Cesidians. We have different and higher responsibilities compared to other life forms on earth because of this.

Cesidians believe that polygamous groups should have the same rights as monogamous couples, so they view the current absolute ban on polygamy in Western countries as only one of the examples of government interference with religion. There are others even contained in the US Constitution. Cesidians have a low view of official world governments for this reason, and for other human rights violations, and predict that these governments don't have a future (there may be matriotic hoopla among Cesidians, but patriotic hoopla is virtually nonexistent), because they have actually set themselves up against the will and wisdom of our Creator(s). It is only by his(their) will that governments are considered legitimate, and allowed to exist and prosper.

Cesidians also believe that human beings at their most virtuous are more like Gods than men, and in fact they have the same rights as Children of God(s). They also believe that human beings today are falling far short of perfection, and in fact they are headed towards an environmental catastrophe if God(s) doesn't (don't) step in.

The Pre- and Post-Christianity of Cesidianism

Although Cesidianism appreciates the significance of the wisdom, humanity, and sacrifice of Jesus of Nazareth, Cesidianism cannot be considered a form of Christianity. Cesidianism actually reinvents Judaism through the 14 Commandments; it reproduces and exalts the divine wisdom of Jesus in the last or 14th Commandment; it produces the most advanced form of Buddhist-like dharma through the Cesidian law that derives from the 14 Commandments; it accepts the values of polygamy in a more balanced way than Islam, that is, without forgetting that women have rights also; it believes that God was not alone when he/she made man, just as the Hindus hold polytheistic ideals; and finally, Cesidianism even produces a more advanced form of Paganism through the Bathetic Star and the dharma associated with it.

Cesidians are not Christians, but part of a greater religion that accepts ideas and beliefs common to many different religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, even some Confucian and Native American eschatological beliefs. The Second Coming or Parousia of Messiah/Christ/Imam/Maitreya/Kalki/Perfect Man/Pahana is not just a Jewish or Christian eschatological belief, but in fact part of Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, and even Native American eschatological beliefs. Cesidians also hold beliefs that are original to their religion only.

Cesidians completely reject the religious authority of the Bishop of Rome (central belief of the Catholic form of Christianity), and the authority of the writings of Paul (or Saul) of Tarsus, which are part of the Holy Bible of all Christians. The great majority of Christians, at least 99.99% of them despite the differences in the beliefs of the many sects, can be classified as Christians simply because they accept the writings of Paul of Tarsus as authoritative and representative of the true faith of Jesus of Nazareth and his Apostles.

The writings of Paul that are rejected by the Cesidian Church are specifically the Acts of the Apostles (authored by Luke, but he wrote down the narrative of Paul), Romans, First Corinthians, Second Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, First Thessalonians, Second Thessalonians, First Timothy, Second Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and Hebrews. In other words, in the New Testament part of the Bible Cesidians only accept the Gospels, the General Epistles after the book of Hebrews, and the book of prophecy called Revelation. In the New Testament they refute the authority of the book of History (Acts of the Apostles), and all the Pauline Epistles (or Corpus Paulinum). Cesidians hold a sceptic view of the entire content of the Holy Bible, since they believe that the writings themselves are either mythological, and thus unrealiable, or have been modified over the centuries, and thus no longer have any integrity. In the Bible, Revelation 22:18 itself warns against the arbitrary addition or subtraction of text, and Cesidians believe this warning exists because the author of Revelation had already experienced this arbitrary modification firsthand. So Cesidians believe that both the Pope and the Bible are not infallible.

The Bible has no references or bibliography. All original manuscripts that did not become part of the Bible (and there were many in circulation), but that were at least considered before the canon used today was established, were destroyed, and this practice cannot be considered legitimate or scholarly. The practice of burning books that you don't want others to read, or that you think others should not bother to read, is also arrogant, like the the Devil is arrogant, and thus not divinely inspired. This is part of the reason why the Bible is not infallible.

Another reason the Bible isn't infallible is this: even the Bible itself states it is infallible! If the Bible were infallible, Jesus would have nothing more to teach, nothing more unknown to make known, and these verses seem to indicate the contrary:

Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

Like as many were astonished at you (his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men), so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.

Cesidians can at best be considered pre-Christian by their beliefs, and are probably post-Christian in many other respects.

Cesidians also accept the Gospel of Thomas as the "Fifth Gospel," and the Gospel of the Nazirenes (aka "The Gospel of the Holy Twelve") has been defined as the "Sixth Gospel." These latter scriptures were never included in the Holy Bible, and only some theologians consider the Gospel of Thomas as the Fifth Gospel. Other scriptures that seem to have been tampered with (the Christ and the Antichrist cannot possibly be the same person!), especially the Pauline Epistles, have been included in the Christian canon despite the fact that the author, Paul, carried beliefs very inconsistent with the beliefs of Jesus — e.g., Paul was a sexist while Jesus clearly was not; Paul believed that slaves should submit to their master, while neither the Jews, nor Jesus ever held such beliefs —, despite the fact that he lacked any authority to preach, and had never formally received his authority from either Jesus or his Apostles. Christianity today, as a result of these inclusions in the New Testament, and the unscholarly and illegitimate burning and exclusion of other writings, is more the false religion of Paul of Tarsus than the true religion of Jesus and his Apostles, so Cesidians have rejected the writings of Paul in their entirety.

Further details can be added about why Cesidianism differs from every other religion.

Cesidianism not only isn't a form of Christianity, but may in fact be the most advanced religion that ever existed, and Cesidians consider it the only true religion.

It was from Paul's concepts, which were wholly against nature, that marriage was prohibited for Catholic priests and the establishment of monasteries for men and convents for women originated. Both are supported by the false idea of the incompatibility between spirituality and a normal sex life. Many ascetic writings spoke about the difficulty of chastity. Augustine used to pray: "Give me chastity and continence, only not yet" (Confessions book VIII, cp. VII.) Except for Clement of Alexandria, the Fathers of the Church coming after Paul, all proved to have an insane perseverance to this misogynist attitude. Thus, Paul VI declared in 1977 that women cannot become priests "since our Lord was a man." We shall also quote the example of Tertullian, referring to the women within the Gnostic community: "As for their women, they are such prostitutes! because they are daring enough to teach others. to take part in debates, to exorcize, to think themselves apt to heal and maybe also to baptize."

Nothing is, however, more transitory than the glory built on lies, so that many scholars investigating the present spiritual evolution have estimated that, after this age that has lasted two millenniums, there will follow a new epoch (Aquarius) considered to be Johanian, in contrast to the previous Paulinic age (apud B. Wurtz.) Mankind will thus restore the original significance of the gospels.

Dan Costian, Bible Enlightened

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