Cesidian Church
The Cesidian Church is an institution established by the founder of Cesidianism, the Hon Most Rev Dr Cesidio Tallini. The institution was founded on 17 November 2001. Today, the former Bishop of the Cesidian Church, is often called Meddíss Túvtiks Kaisiris Tallini.
Later Kaisiris also became the real Bishop of the Cesidian Church, through an independent Church Charter granted by Saint Luke Evangelical Christian Ministries, a non-denominational church, and a Saint James College Certified Professional Chaplain (CPC).
Religious beliefs
Cesidianism is a paradigm more than a religion. Evidence for this can be found through a kind of holy calculus called Cesidian analytic theology or Cat.
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 has also produced cultural offshoots: from a Martian calendar, to Bucksfanian astrology, to a Fifth World Chronological Standard.
Cesidians' economic beliefs are now heavily derivative from Cesidian analytic theology or Cat, which predicts the possibility of paradisaical currencies and utopian socio-economic conditions. Cat is a new field of human endeavour with promising applications in many of the social sciences — Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Medicine, Political Science, Religion, Sociology —, and of course, Theology.
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.
The 14 Commandments are also quite revolutionary, since today, because of developments within applied Cesidian law they even do without Mosaic law entirely.
Other Cesidian beliefs
Cesidians believe human beings can be born again, but this idea, while similar to Buddhist reincarnation ideas, is not identical, and also differs substantially from Petrine and Pauline Christian "born again" ideas, which Cesidians consider sophistic at best, and not reflective of Jesus' actual beliefs.
Cesidians also believe in greater social freedom than afforded by often vulgar and plutocratic marriage.
For these and many other reasons, Cesidianism cannot be considered a form of Petrine or Pauline, a form of Aristotelian Christianity.
The more Pythagorean form of Christianity that is Cesidianism, if it can be compared to Christianity at all, is also less dogmatic, and more open to ideas and beliefs common to many different religions. Like Muslims, Cesidians also view the Bible as based on tampered with or adulterated scriptures, and accept the Gospel of Thomas as a more authoritative and sincere "Fifth Gospel", closer to what Jesus the Nazorean actually believed.
Saint René Descartes
On 28 November 2007, the Cesidian Church beatified René Descartes ― also known as Renatus Cartesius (latinised form), the famous French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic ― and issued a "Saint René Descartes Declaration" urging support for his canonisation.
The "Saint René Descartes Declaration" emphasised the fact that René Descartes was Catholic and spiritual enough to attract the attention of Cardinal de Bérulle; a pious Catholic named Claude Clerselier who knew him well, even tried to turn him into a saint after his death; yet the Catholic Church placed his books on the Index of prohibited books (Index librorum prohibitorum) in 1663, and the Index was itself indexed only in April 1966 (on 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo Galilei affair was handled, but no official expressions of regret were ever issued for René Descartes, even though he was far more religious than Galileo ever was, and he may have even been fundamental to Queen Christina of Sweden's conversion to Catholicism).
The Declaration also emphasised the fact that René Descartes glorified reason and advocated religious tolerance and the rights of man; lived a single, secluded life, yet he opposed all vows, even religious ones, that restricted liberty; practiced medicine without charge, and expressed optimism about the ability of science to improve the human condition; he honoured women as equals, even dedicated books not once, but twice to Protestant women; yet his Cartesian philosophy was condemned at the University of Utrecht, bastion of Calvinist thought, and the university lifted the ban on the teaching of Descartes only on 23 March 2005, a good 363 years after it had been instituted.
In response to the Declaration, several persons from various walks of life and different denominations, even an atheist, signed the petition in favour of Descartes' canonisation, and together with the bishop of the Cesidian Church, two bishops and one archbishop expressed their favour for Descartes' sainthood.
On 13 December 2007, Saint René Descartes was consecrated the First Saint of the Cesidian Church.
There is also a micronational university named after Saint René Descartes, Saint René Descartes University.
The end of the Cesidian Church
On 29 June 2019 The Tallini Family (TTF) was attacked by New York State, and this alleged "protection" of one of TTF's nationals, who had been kept alive for more than 3.5 years after a massive stroke or CVA by her son, essentially an unlicenced nurse and doctor, actually precipitated her early death on 11 August 2019, less than two months later.
Since 11 August 2019, the Founder of The Tallini Family (TTF) has fallen on hard times, made even worse by the Covid-19 pandemic, and so The Tallini Family (17.11.1998 – 11.08.2019) has ceased to exist.
Afterwards, even the Cesidian Church, after its late historical phase (16.12.2015 – 08.07.2020), has ceased to exist, when all calls for support from its Bishop went unheeded.
References
- Cesidian Church urges support for canonization of Descartes or Cartesius, OpenPR.com, 29 November 2007
- Descartes becomes Cesidian Church's first saint, PRLog.org, 13 December 2007
- Descartes becomes Cesidian Church's first saint, openPR.com, 14 December 2007
- Descartes becomes Cesidian Church's first saint, by "Sotto Voce", Clerical Whispers, 15 December 2007