Jordan Interview

Lee Berman · 23 Oct 2011, 02:41 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:41:19 -0400
Subject: (urth) Jordan Interview
Message-ID: <SNT123-W106CAE9E1436E3823A5920CFEE0 at phx.gbl>

>Dan'l Dannehy-Oakes: Agreed. But when you're dealing with a writer 

>who insists that there is only one Theoanthropos in the history of 

>all universes, that becomes semirelevant at best.

Like David, I would like a link to this quote if possible. I don't

necessarily doubt it, but it would be nice to see it in context.

Is it possible Wolfe spoke of one "Increate" in the history of all

universes?

I do think The Increate mentioned in BotNS might be the Judeo-Christian

god, Jaweh (or perhaps the God of the Trinity, which some consider to be 

different than Jaweh).

On the other hand, I don't think The Pancreator is the Christian God, nor 

the Outsider. They seem to be more along the lines of demiurge to me. In 

fact a demiurge is mentioned in BotNS along with other spooky gnostic deities 

like The Abraxas.

For those who think The Outsider is meant to be our "one, true God" of all

universes I would pose a question:

Why is the Outsider repeatedly and strongly characterized as a dark god?

A fuligin god even. Isn't the one, true, Judeo-Christian God defined primarily

as a God of light? (Genesis 1:1-4, below)

I suppose some might argue that the Judeo-Christian God is a complete God

encompassing both dark and light. While that may be so, it doesn't explain

why The Outsider is characterized only as dark. And not just black, but the

deepest kind of dark that sucks up all light. When has the God of the Holy 

Trinity ever been described like that?

>1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 

>2. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, 

>and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 
>3 And God said, ?Let there be light,? and there was light. 

>4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

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