Magistrate

Definition

The Magistrate is the judging principle in the triad at the heart of Kelx belief, paired with the Condemned Man (creative but flawed) and the Innocent (redeeming inspiration). In Kelx teaching, the world people inhabit is narrated, piece by piece, by the Condemned Man to the Magistrate, who will one day render a final verdict that determines whether the narrated world continues.

Context and Usage

• Moral framing: Kelx magisters urge adherents to act so that, when their deeds are “told” before the Magistrate, they help tip the judgment toward continued life. The idiom “having one’s story related to the Magistrate” is used to interpret daily events and choices.
• Practical invocation: A shipboard magister applied this framing to recent turmoil, later remarking that “the Condemned Man had a good yarn to spin for the Magistrate today,” while cautioning that the Magistrate’s ultimate judgment of the world would not be easily shifted. In the same vein, he attributed his own timely help to the stirring of the Innocent rather than to personal merit. This illustrates how magisters connect immediate action to the triad’s roles (see Magister Sark).
• Sermon claims: Some preaching asserts that signs in the heavens portend imminent judgment (for example, rhetoric that the Magistrate—or a subordinate—has been seen and that the Warden of Heaven was cast out). Such claims are presented as sermonizing, not verified reports.
• Comparisons in discourse: An avout observer likens Kelx appeals to the Magistrate to another community’s concept of “emergence,” noting that both frameworks can motivate decisive intervention without detailing identical theology (see also how outsiders refer to the Avout).

Related Terms

• Kelx triad: Condemned Man; Innocent; Magistrate (judgment/goodness).
• Offices and adherents: magister; Kedev (member of a Kelx ark).
• Linked examples and references: Kelx; Magister Sark; Warden of Heaven; Avout.

Notes

• This page summarizes how the Magistrate is described and invoked in current accounts. Assertions about celestial signs and timing of judgment appear within sermons and are not independently corroborated in the present material.