TWK: 7 world cosmology

James Wynn · 11 Dec 2005, 02:17 · from 2005-December.txt.gz

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From: thewynns at earthlink.net (James Wynn)
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:17:39 -0500
Subject: (urth) TWK: 7 world cosmology
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>I took the bit about humans being "raised" up from animals as just a nod to
>Darwin.

I don't think it is "just" a nod to Darwin. He *chose* to use the word
"raised" afterall.

>As for this upward evolution of humans and Aelf ever nearer to the High God
>that you propose, it's just not in the book, and I see no indication that
> it's even theoretically possible according to the internal logic of the
>cosmology.

Well, you admit that Disiri was raised to human status and at the end of the
book, she is on her
way to Kleos.

It doesn't have to be universally *done* for that to be the overall plan. In
evolution, hominids aren't one day *made* human. It is a gradual process
that occurs in generations rather than to a particular creature. The vast
majority of genes threads do not survive, and only a remnant continue.
Disiri has done it. Others will as well.

In a sense Garsecg and his sister (I forget the name) become Aelf and then
human as well in the form of Arnthor and Morcaine. Albeit, they do it in a
backward manner that is presumably unacceptable to the MHG.

>The average human in Mythgarthr is *never* going to get to Skai,
>dead or alive.

Dying first seems to be the standard procedure for raising humans to Skai.

As for the "average human" getting to Skai:

Mat 7:13 Enter through the narrow passage: for wide is the passage, and
broad is the road, that leads to destruction, and many there are that go
that way.

J

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