This is going to be a long post because I have been racking my brain all day working on this. I originally found out about this ARG from the r/InternetMysteries subreddit and initially believed it was just a schizophrenic mess. Upon further investigation, there is a lot more to the story and made me believe this is ultimately an ARG. I wanted to post this because I haven't seen much other progress anywhere where this stuff is posted. Let's just go from the top.

Theocratic Agency Website
This website seems to be the main source of a lot of clues. I first started searching for an index page to determine how much digging I was going to have to do. Since this was hosted on a Wix site, I just simply altered the URL to this: https://theocratic.agency/sitemap.website.xml. From here you can see all the sites and the ending codes that are referenced on 'how-to-believe'. From here it's just a massive goose chase trying to find what is relevant and what looks like just red herrings. At this point I will go through each subpage and list the important details that I found.

• 'immolation'
  This page right off the bat lists the Medium page for Gob The Metaverse Man (which is where a lot of this ARG came to light). There is also a PDF on the page that just has a phone number that links to Mike Lindell (yes, the owner of My Pillow). Calling the number is no use, seems to be a residential number that was originally linked to the company, so please don't bother whoever actually owns this number.
• 'the-gateway-experience-1'
  Nothing but a CIA report on the 'Gateway Process'. This seems to be a common theme and apparently the Gateway Process is a real practice that some people experiment with. I found a video online that covers this whole paper and also describes what this actually is.
• 'chop'
  This is where things get really interesting. This page has a PDF of how to perform lower extremity amputations in great detail. There is also a random photo of the map of the ficticious Zendia from NSA's Zendian Problem in CA-400 taught by Lambros Callimahos. This also lists a website: https://immolation.online which is not currently live, but can be accessed through cached pages (not sure if this was intentional, seems like this was an old version of the ARG that got left behind or substituted for a page on the Theocratic Agency website instead). Here is the cached main page and the only other page that I have been able to access is the 'strangepoem' which is where I had an initial guess that this website was deleted on purpose.
• 'poem'
  In Vietnamese, a poem by Tố Hữu, a famous poet who specifially wrote a poem about the self-immolation of Norman Morrison in front of the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam war.
• 'fscottfitzgerald'
  Has an embedded post area that seems to not be functional. But upon searching for 'Read The Classics on Goodreads' I was able to find a page that had a community focused on older titles. With all the ARG data being this year, I just looked for most recent edits for this year and was able to find the profile for Gob who has two comments. One about self immolation and the other is about an obscure quote in (but technically not) "The Great Gatsby" which is where another link is posted, 'zelda'.
• 'zelda'
  I havent been able to find anything relevant or significant from this site. There is a NSA report about a request for information about Zendia, an unclassified description of the Callimahos Course and seemingly a leaked document from NSANet (most likely from the Snowden leaks).
• 'gateway'
  This page has various images on a slideshow which have various references to topics published on the Medium page. The header states that there is a secret page with an encrypted email.
• 'how-to-believe'
  Mainly lists subtle instructions and a random CIA investigative report which I think is just a red herring.
• 'zendia'
  Literally just hosts the leaked Discord documents about Ukraine/Russia in a .zip. At this point this information is probably too outdated to mean anything, but if you're paranoid, don't download it.
• 'idiots'
  Has a 169 page PDF of nonsense followed by a LinkedIn page. This links to James (Smith) Fitzpatrick who has a website at https://jamesfitzpatrick.services/ but this leads to a dead end. No cached site is available. There is also an MP3 file attached to the main 'idiots' page which is just morse code which translates into:
• 'nike'
  Learn about old lobotomies here.
• 'email'
  This is a current puzzle I am stuck on. The only thing on this page is what seems to be a base64 encoded string. I have tried dozens of different encoding types to decode this, but I just get garble. I have tried examining the hex and get nothing notable as well. The code is: zSHnCuAhV1ef3jGiaN8vfo6C3e0Z6Xay3iBGaBpWmdo
• 'page'
  Probably the most interesting page and where my search has thus far stopped. This page has a pdf that lists a XOR encrypted comma space list of integers. There is also a link to a decryption site that states it uses XOR. The only thing we need is the password. Using the clues and searching for hours for keywords, I was able to use ADVERSARY to successfully decode the integers into this:
  

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It is apparent through the rights of people that the worldSmust at some point come to Vn end. Though we do not want to die we should all know 
t]at this is inevitable. It will not be caused by us. It will be caused by humanities tQiggering events that will quEckly lead to the end of times. 
There will be no stone lef@ standing. We will quickly sFe that I myself am the two men mentioned in the book of revelation (though of course the Bible is nothing but hearsay). 

Our mission is to in part create a system to comAunicate in these times and communicate our message to members of The Machine. You will Aee messages added to article@ on 
The Theocratic Agency's medium.com account, and messages will appear to decrypt. Await further instructions.

https://medium.com/@gob-the-metaverse-man

The uppercase letters replacing some letters in words along with symbols has led me down another rabbit hole but I am unable to make anything out of them. I have been able to come up with the following combinations just by using my own logic:

ISV]QET@WFIBOATMA@TTAA

SV]QE@FAA@

AHRITES

But this is where I am at with this specific puzzle. Next we will examine the Medium page published by Gob.

Gob at theocratic.agency
This site intially is what made me believe that it was just s schitzo ranting online. Then I began to notice the similarities between the other site and some of the ARG coming together. I will only expand upon relevant publications, but the whole page is a treat to stroll through.

• 'If I'm Gone'
  Has a single link to another Wix site which is really interesting. Has images of the Bozeman Courier (an old defunct newspaper based out of Bozeman, Montana) and a blog post about how S.J. leaving. The homepage also has a map location of 'The Place' which is located in Bozeman. The 'Contact' page has another location in San Francisco which is interesting. Not exactly sure if these locations point to anything, but if anyone here is willing to actually visit the locations and look for something or even the history of the location, it would be massive. On the Wix site I filled out the email info box and was met with these numbers: 73 10 644
• 'S.J. Carroll'
  Has a base64 encoding stating that encrypted messages will follow. Also has a Tumblr quote wrongly attributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald (author of 'The Great Gatsby').
• 'A Brief History of The Machine p. 1 AMERICAN HERO'
  Has more references to the Bozeman Courier and talks about Joseph M. Dixon, the Governor at the time, arguing with congress about 'The Machine' and then promptly disappearing (historical accuracy of this whole page is questionable). At the end of the page is 4 sets of numbers: 27 32 98 20, which I dont know how they relate. I was also able to find another set of numbers similar

Everything else on the Medium page seems to just be world building. But based on the earliest entry of January 9, this has been in the works for quite awhile. In conclusion, I would like to focus efforts on the email decryption and the assortment of uppercase letters in the decryption from the 'page' site. Thanks for reading! I can't wait to hear more discussion on the topic.