The Solar Temple is the principle monotheistic religion of the known world. This article concerns the Solar Temple in general; specific denominations may have some degree of variation. Only some of these variations are discussed here.
Divinity
All denominations of the Solar Temple confess faith in a unique benevolent deity, usually called God, though also called by the poetic name Aelia (for example, in the name of the Aelian States.) This God is identified more specifically as the God of the Prophet Ardamar, who is the mortal founder of the Solar Temple. The Solar temple believes God to be well-disposed to humans and always definitionally doing what is morally good, having vast creative and destructive powers, and with far greater knowledge than any human being or lesser spiritual being. However, the Solar Temple does not consider God to be omnipotent or omniscient as philosophical absolutes. The physical sun (the heavenly body) is believed to be an immanent form of God by most denominations; higher critics believe that the Temple's concept of God originated from a pre-Ardamarian solar deity (and his consort, Aelia, who was subsumed into him.)
The Temple believes God to be eternal, without a beginning or ending. He is the only true God, but there are other powerful, immortal spiritual beings he created to be subordinates to himself. These are the archons, ten pairs of beings who form his heavenly court and who judge human souls after death, and the numerous angels who staff a sort of celestial "bureaucracy" and are responsible for the administration of the divine will.
Prophethood and Illumination
The Temple believes in
Morality
Cosmogony
Afterlife
Eschatology
Denominations
Clergy and Hierarchy
Places of Worship