The Imperial Cult, also called the Cult Imperialis in High Gothic, 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 unrivaled power and influence within the Imperium. Heresy against it is punished severely. The religion is administered by the Ecclesiarchy.
帝国教派，在高哥特语中也被称为帝国教，是基于对人类帝皇作为主、捍卫者和人类之父的崇拜的教派，是在他被安置在黄金王座后发展起来的。在第41个千年，帝国教派在帝国内部拥有几乎无与伦比的权力和影响力。反对它的异端行为将受到严厉惩罚。该教派由国教教会管理。
Symbol of the Imperial Cult 帝国教派标志
Overview 概述
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 principle tenets of the Imperial Creed are the persecution of mutants, the abhorrence of Xenos, and the worship of both the Emperor and Imperial ideals.
帝国教派是帝国的国教，在许多方面，教派就是国家本身；它将人类团结在一起，为帝皇和帝国服务。帝国信条的主要原则是迫害变种人，憎恶异型，崇拜帝皇和帝国理想。
The more devout followers of the Creed will undertake The Grand Pilgrimage to Terra at least once in their lives.
信仰信条的虔诚信徒一生中至少会进行一次前往泰拉的大朝圣。
While many Space Marine Chapters follow their own cults, or 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, Red Hunters, and Auric Paragons.
虽然许多星际战士战团遵循自己的教派，或继续遵守一种古老的帝国真理，但有些战团确实遵守帝国教派，将帝皇视为神来崇拜。其中包括黑色圣堂、火焰天使、红色猎手和黄金典范。
Tenets 宗旨
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.
帝国信条非常灵活，由传教士量身定制，以适应其所在世界的本土文化、宗教和习俗。因此，在一个世界坚持的做法在另一个世界可能被视为令人憎恶的。牧师会容忍这种广泛的做法和信仰，因为不可能在整个帝国内保持信仰的完全标准化。
However, the Ecclesiarchy does enforce basic key tenets:
然而，国教教会确实执行了基本的关键原则：
The Emperor once walked among men, but He is, and always has been, a god.
帝皇曾经在人间行走，但他现在是，而且一直是神。
The Emperor is the one true god, regardless of what past faiths any human may have worshipped.
帝皇是唯一真正的神，无论任何人过去信仰什么。
To purge the heretic, beware the psyker and mutant, and abhor the alien.
要清除异端，要小心灵能者和变种人，憎恶异型。
Every human being has a place within the Emperor's divine order.
每个人在帝皇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.
毫无疑问地服从帝国政府和上级的权威。
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.
另一个反复出现的主题是“终结之刻”的概念，这一概念在第41个千年结束时势头强劲。通常与终结之刻的概念联系在一起的是一种信念，即帝皇将从黄金王座上崛起，完成他在一万年前开始的工作，将信徒从银河系的邪恶中拯救出来。虽然大多数人认为这是一个解脱的时刻，但也有人认为帝皇将审判全人类，把那些缺乏信仰的人堕入地狱。
Theological Branches 神学分支
Aside from the 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. Death cults such as The Moritat and Astral Knives are very different from groups like the Church of the Shrouded Emperor or the Lethean Revelation, yet all broadly worship the same deity.
除了核心原则外，还存在大量受批准和未经批准的教条，这些教条因部门而异，是不断争论的主题。像谋杀歌谣和星界锋刃这样的死亡教派与像隐秘帝皇教派或冥河启示这样的团体非常不同，但它们都广泛地崇拜同一个神。
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.
来世的话题是一个经常争论的话题，许多教义都提到了来世的形式，信徒在来世中永远坐在帝皇身边。然而，神圣教会的其他成员对来世有不同的看法，对来世的信仰因星球文化而异。
Known sub-cults 已知子教
Astral Knives 星界锋刃
Drusians 德鲁苏斯信徒
The Creeping Shadow 匍匐阴影
Church of Mortification 禁欲教派
Church of the Shrouded Emperor 隐秘帝皇教派
Cult of the Immaculate Design 纯洁设计教派
Cult of the True Resurrection 重生教派
Gourdians 古尔迪安教团
Helio Cult 太阳教派
Lethean Revelation 冥河启示
Mendicantine Fraters 托钵修士教会
The Moritat 谋杀歌谣
Sisters of the Void 虚空姐妹
Sons of Sol 太阳之子
Sons of Sept 氏族之子
The Redemption 救赎
Vitrian Covenant 维特里安圣约
Weavers 编织者
History 历史
By 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. This doctrine -which also denied the existence of Chaos- was called the "Imperial Truth".
到了M41，普通的帝国公民认为帝皇一直被尊为不朽和全能的神，但这是不准确的。在帝皇的大远征开始时，没有国教教会；相反，帝皇故意取缔任何形式的有组织宗教，宣称它是阻碍人类发挥其潜力的大部分冲突和无知的根源。崇拜的想法是对帝皇建立一个由理性和科学统治的世俗人类帝国的愿景的诅咒。官方的帝国学说是，帝皇是一个极其强大的存在，是全人类的合法统治者，是人类的完美形象，但无论多么至高无上，他仍然是一个人。这一学说也否认混沌的存在，被称为“帝国真理”。
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 became 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 and Empire of Divine Valour had gained strength across the Imperium. However, the cults' growth did not go unopposed, and occasionally resulted in open war between cultists and supporters of the Imperial Truth even as the Horus Heresy raged, such as on Argarops.
然而，在大远征期间，许多普通的帝国公民发现帝皇带来的理性和真理之光还不够，他们开始把他当作神来崇拜。帝皇本人不希望被视为神，但他在大远征期间的行为以及他存在的事实——一个不朽的人，银河系历史上最强大的灵能者——引发了一种崇拜，称为圣言诵读，基于原体珞珈写的一本巨著，假设帝皇实际上是一个神圣的存在。帝国信条的早期中心人物是记述者，后来的第一位圣人幼发拉底·琪乐。琪乐与前传道者凯里尔·辛德曼一起成为帝皇神性的早期支持者，并在叛乱展开时监督了教派的传播。到泰拉围城时，承光者和神圣勇气帝国等教派已经在帝国中获得了力量。然而，教派的发展并非没有对手，即使在荷鲁斯叛乱肆虐的时候，偶尔也会导致教派信徒和帝国真理支持者之间的公开战争，比如在阿加罗普斯。
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.
在荷鲁斯叛乱之后，帝皇成为了人们普遍崇拜的对象，并被安置在泰拉的黄金王座上。在接下来的几十年里，整个帝国涌现出许多独立的帝国教派，其中心主题是通过帝皇的自我牺牲来救赎人类。几百年后，一个被称为救世帝皇圣堂的独立教派由一些较小的教派统一而成，逐渐吸收了信徒的主体。在M32，这个教派成为帝国的官方宗教，获得了“帝国国教”的称号。其余的教派遭到迫害，大多被摧毁。
The dominance of the Temple of the Saviour Emperor was broken during the Age of Apostasy in M36, when Sebastian Thor and his "Confederation of Light" reformed the Imperial Cult. After this point, the Ecclesiarchy took the form it would keep until M41. The Temple was subsequently declared heretical, and its remaining followers were hunted just like other unorthodox cults. Despite the continued dominance of Thor's version of the Imperial Cult over the next millennia, minor Imperial cults would continue to rise and fall across the Imperium.
救世帝皇圣堂的统治地位在M36的叛教时代被打破，当时塞巴斯蒂安·托尔和他的“光明同盟”改革了帝国教派。在这一点之后，国教教会采取了它并一直保持其形式到M41。圣堂随后被宣布为异端，其剩余的追随者像其他非正统教派一样被追捕。尽管在接下来的几千年里，托尔版本的帝国教派继续占据主导地位，但帝国中的小型教派仍将继续兴衰。
