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  "thread": {
    "id": 3479,
    "subject": "Genesis 2",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-10-10T18:43:26+00:00",
    "last": "2002-10-10T18:43:26+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0210-1843@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "crushtv at hotpop.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-10-10T18:43:26+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Genesis 2",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Michael Straight writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Re: Garden of Eden:\n\nIf Whorl=Garden and Pas=God, then Outsider=???"
        },
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          "text": "Tom adds:\nEven the cylinder shape with the people inside is a nice inversion\nof the real world.\n\nCrush interjects:\nI consider it a mistake to try to incorporate the Outsider into the system\nof Pas' creation story.\n\nI believe the proper equations are:\nOutsider=God,\nPas=blasphemous imitation of God,\nWhorl=blasphemous imitation of God's creation\n\nPas like Horn parodying Silk for the *amusement* of his friends.\n\nOne characterizations of black masses is to use actual religious objects and\nrituals but turn them upside-down or apply the opposite meanings to them.\nThis is what Pas has done. He's taken creation and *turned it inside-out*.\n\nI realize there are lots of deliberate flags to Mithraism (which is not the\nsame thing as Gnosticism) in tBotLS, but I believe this the intended\nunderstanding of the references to Genesis 2.\n\n--Crush"
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