Aside on Christ figures in TBotNS

Jordon Flato · 12 Dec 2008, 17:03 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jordonflato at gmail.com (Jordon Flato)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:03:04 -0800
Subject: (urth) Aside on Christ figures in TBotNS
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Sure, I'll grant there is a correspondance there.   Hell, I've been arguing
for the Christ correspondences while saying it's not a precise fit, so I
can't really buck this one!

Somehow, though, I've always felt that Tzadkiel and the rest were more the
higher angelic heirarchy.  Especially with the biblical notion that Man is
higher than the Angels, and the BotNS idea that The Hierogrammates lift up
man so they will resemble the Hierogrammates creators (who were, thus,
higher than them).

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:56 AM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> Jordon & Witz---
>
> It doesn't work perfectly for exactly those reasons. However, the pattern
> is so clear I don't think it can be denied.
>
> Also, for me there is little difference between Yahweh saying he is the
> Utmost and humans thinking he is, not realizing he is simply a sun god and
> that a bigger God lies above and behind him. This is partly because humans
> lie and make things up about their gods, and partly because the universe of
> TBotNS is, in a way. a Catholic universe with all the flesh stripped away to
> reveal the bones, like a postmodern building. It is generally rational and
> rationalized, relatively speaking. It has to "make sense" regardless of our
> existing religious beliefs, which will never perfectly apply.
>
> If Tzadkiel had been an evil or foolish Demiurge (Abaia and his brothers
> seem to want to fill that slot), it would have been a very different story.
>
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