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The Imperial Cult is the cult based on the worship of the Emperor of Mankind as Master, Defender and Father of Mankind, developed following his internment in the Golden Throne. In the 41st millennium the Imperial Cult has almost unrivalled power and influence within the Imperium. Heresy against it is punished severely. The religion is administered by the Ecclesiarchy.

帝国国教是基于将帝皇视为人类的主宰，保卫者和尊父的崇拜的教派，紧随着帝皇坐上黄金王座而发展开来。在第四十一个千年，帝国国教在帝国拥有了几乎无可匹敌的权力和影响力。反对它的异端将会被残酷惩罚。该宗教由国教教会管理。

Overview综述

The Imperial Cult is the Imperium's state religion, and in many ways the religion is the state itself; it binds humanity together in the service of the Emperor and the Imperium.The basic precepts of the Imperial Cult, called the Imperial Creed, include the belief that all of humanity must be brought into the Imperium, the abhorrence of Xenos, and the realisation that psykers and mutation among humanity is a dire threat which must be controlled. All of these precepts have their origins in what the Emperor himself preached during the Great Crusade.

国教是帝国的官方宗教，很多方面国教也是帝国本身：它将人类一起约束到为帝国的服务当中。国教基本戒律被称为帝国信条，其信仰包括：所有的人类必须被纳入帝国，要憎恶异形，要认识到灵能者与人类中的变异现象是必须被控制的巨大威胁。所有这些戒律都源于帝皇在大远征时期亲自宣扬的信条。

While many Space Marine Chapters continue to observe a form of the older Imperial Truth, some do abide by the Imperial Cult and worship the Emperor as a god. These include the Black Templars, Fire Angels, and Red Hunters

虽然很多星际战士战团仍然遵循更为古老的帝国真理信条，但也有一些星际战士战团虔诚地遵守国教并将帝皇作为神明崇拜，其中包括黑色圣堂，火天使，红猎手。

Tenets教义

The Imperial Creed is highly flexible and is tailored by Missionaries to fit the native culture, religion, and practices of whatever world it exists upon. As such, practices adhered to on one world may be held as abhorrent on another. The Ministorum tolerates this vast range of practices and beliefs, as it would be impossible to maintain a complete standardization of the faith across the Imperium.

帝国信条极其灵活，传教士们可以为了适应星球本地文化，宗教和已经存在的一下行为现象而入乡随俗，因此，各个世界上进行传教的做法可能各不相同。国教教廷（机仆：这个是泰拉修会的组成部门之一过，即所谓“国教部”，国教教会算是教廷的领导部门，领袖是教宗）会对这些种类广泛的传教形式和信仰形式表示宽容，毕竟，在全帝国进行信仰的完全标准化是不可能的。

However, the Ecclesiarchy does enforce basic key tenets：

不过，国教教会要求必须遵守如下基本教义：

The Emperor once walked among men, but He is, and always has been, a god.

帝皇曾行走与凡人之间，但无论现在还是未来，他都是神明。

The Emperor is the one true god, regardless of what past faiths any human may have worshipped.

帝皇是唯一真神，人类要忘却过去的一切信仰

To purge the heretic, beware the psyker and mutant, and abhor the alien.

净化异端，警惕灵能者和变异人，憎恶异形

Every human being has a place within the Emperor's divine order.

每个人在皇帝的神圣秩序中都有一席之地

To unquestionably obey the authority of the Imperial government and one's superiors.

要盲从帝国政府的官员和自己的上级。

Another recurring theme is the notion of the End Times, which gained momentum towards the end of the 41st Millennium. Often tied to the notion of the End Times is a belief that the Emperor will rise from the Golden Throne and complete the work He began ten thousand years ago, delivering the faithful from the evils of the galaxy. While most view these as a time of deliverance, it is also believed that the Emperor will sit in judgment of all mankind, casting those lacking in faith into damnation.

另一个循环往复的主题是终焉之时的概念，在第四十一个千年的末尾，这一势头越来越明显。经常与终焉之时相联系的信仰是：帝皇将会从黄金王座上站起来，完成他在一万年前开创的大业，将信众从银河系的恶徒宵小手中拯救出来。而多数人将其视为解救之时，帝皇会对人类进行审判，对缺乏信仰者降下诅咒。

Aside from these central tenets, there exists a massive body of both sanctioned and unsanctioned dogma  which varies from sector to sector and is the subject of constant debate. The subject of the afterlife is a regularly debated topic, with many teachings mentioning the form of an afterlife in which the faithful take their place beside the Emperor for eternity. However other elements of the Holy Synod maintain a different version of the afterlife, and the belief in an afterlife varies greatly depending on the culture of a planet.

除了这些核心教义，还存在巨量被认可和未被认可的教条，这些教条因星区而异，它们是存在不断争议的话题。死后世界就是一个日常争议话题，很多教条都提到国教信徒死后将会永远侍立帝皇侧。不过神圣枢机会（机仆：lex说该机构是国教rulung body，应该是最高统治机构）的其他成员对死后世界有不同看法。取决当地世界的文化，各地关于死后世界的信仰是极其多种多样的。

History历史

 M41, the ordinary Imperial citizen believes that the Emperor has always been venerated as an immortal and omnipotent god, but this is inaccurate. At the beginning of the Emperor's Great Crusade, there was no Ecclesiarchy; on the contrary, the Emperor had deliberately outlawed organised religion in any form, declaring it the source of much of the strife and ignorance that had prevented humanity from achieving its potential. The idea of worship was anathema to the Emperor's vision of a secular empire of man, ruled by reason and science. The official Imperial doctrine was that the Emperor was an extremely powerful being, the rightful ruler of all mankind, and the perfect image of humanity, but no matter how supreme, still a human being.

在第四十一个千年，普通帝国民众相信应该将帝皇作为不朽和万能的神明加以崇拜，但这是错误的。在大远征开始时，国教教会并不存在，恰恰相反，帝皇有意取缔了各种有组织的宗教形式，宣称它们是阻碍人类实现潜能的纷争和无知的来源。帝皇的理想是建立由理性和科学统治的世俗人类帝国，向神明祈祷是对这一理想的玷污。此时帝国的官方信条是：帝皇是极其强大的存在，全人类的正当统治者，人类的完美形象，但无论他多么超凡脱俗，他依然是人类。

During the Great Crusade however, many ordinary Imperial citizens found that the light of reason and Truth brought by the Emperor was not enough, and they took to worshiping him as a deity. The Emperor himself did not wish to be considered a deity, but his deeds during the Great Crusade and the very fact of his existence - an immortal man, and the most powerful psyker in the history of the galaxy - gave rise to a cult, known as the Lectitio Divinitatus, based on a tome written by the Primarch Lorgar, postulating that the Emperor was in fact a divine being.The early central figure of the Imperial Creed was the Remembrancer and later first Saint, Euphrati Keeler. Keeler along with the former Iterator Kyril Sindermann become early proponents of the Emperor's divinity and oversaw the spread of the Cult as the Heresy unfolded. By the time of the Siege of Terra cults such as the Lightbearers had gained strength across the Imperium.

但在大远征时期，许多普通帝国民众发现帝皇带来的理性和真相之光不够强烈，他们开始将帝皇作为神明崇拜。帝皇并不希望自己被作为神明崇拜，但他在大远征中的事迹以及他存在的本质——不朽者以及银河历史上最为强大的灵能者——导致了一个教派的兴起，其被称之为帝皇救世圣教派，他们的理论基础是原体珞珈写作的巨著，书中认为帝皇本质上是神明这件事是理所当然的。帝国教条早期的领军人物是幼发拉底 齐乐——记述者和后来的初代圣人。齐乐后来与前复述者奇瑞尔 辛德曼成为了帝皇神性的支持者，并且随着帝皇救世圣教派教义的展开，他们也监督了教派的传播。等到了泰拉围城时期，诸如怀光者之类的教派已经在全帝国获得了力量。

The Emperor became an object of general veneration following the Horus Heresy and his internment within the Golden Throne on Terra. Over the following decades many individual Imperial cults sprang up throughout the Imperium, with their central theme being the redemption of humanity through the Emperor's self-sacrifice. After a few hundred years, a single cult known as the Temple of the Saviour Emperor was formed from the unification of a number of smaller cults, which gradually absorbed the main body of believers. In M32 this cult became the official religion of the Imperium, gaining the title of Adeptus Ministorum. Remaining cults were persecuted and mostly destroyed。

随着大叛乱结束，帝皇被束缚在了黄金王座我，他也成为了民众崇拜的对象。随后的几十年中许多独立的帝国教派在全帝国传播开来，他们的核心教义是帝皇用自我牺牲换来了人类的救赎。几百年后，一些较小教派统一成了一个被称为帝皇圣殿救世者的教派，他逐渐吸收了主要信众。在M32他成为帝国官方宗教，得到了国教教廷的头衔。其余教派造到迫害，多数都被毁灭了。