Genesis 2 The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Oct 2002 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3479 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== James Wynn — 10 Oct 2002, 18:43 Michael Straight writes: > Re: Garden of Eden: > > If Whorl=Garden and Pas=God, then Outsider=??? Tom adds: Even the cylinder shape with the people inside is a nice inversion of the real world. Crush interjects: I consider it a mistake to try to incorporate the Outsider into the system of Pas' creation story. I believe the proper equations are: Outsider=God, Pas=blasphemous imitation of God, Whorl=blasphemous imitation of God's creation Pas like Horn parodying Silk for the *amusement* of his friends. One characterizations of black masses is to use actual religious objects and rituals but turn them upside-down or apply the opposite meanings to them. This is what Pas has done. He's taken creation and *turned it inside-out*. I realize there are lots of deliberate flags to Mithraism (which is not the same thing as Gnosticism) in tBotLS, but I believe this the intended understanding of the references to Genesis 2. --Crush ------------------------------------------------------------------------------