What's So Great About Ushas?

Jeff Wilson · 17 Jul 2008, 06:08 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:08:17 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> We're talking about the stuff that's in Aristotle, right?
> 
> Aristotle was not making stuff up: he was recording what people thought.
> 
> For a specifically Christian reference there's "Dionysius the Areopagite"
> (pseudo-Dionysius):
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Dionysius_the_Areopagite

I don't see anything about the world having a literal persona distinct 
from God, and I don't recall seeing anything like that in Aristotle's 
elementalism, either.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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