It should be first and foremost noted that the following text is intended to constitute an adaptable philosophy as opposed to a literal religion. And it is, of course, extraordinarily important to consciously distinguish the difference--religion being the active pursuit of either higher knowledge or power by metaphysical means; philosophies the attempt to assimilate and appropriate the meaning of all action (more specifically, an attempt to assign plausible, if not theoretical, cause to effect in an effort to compose an appropriately aggregated antiquity of applicable experiences and...