Jordan Interview

David Stockhoff · 23 Oct 2011, 20:12 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:12:35 -0400
Subject: (urth) Jordan Interview
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On 10/23/2011 11:51 AM, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
> Just one remark:
>
> >  Why is the Outsider repeatedly and strongly characterized as a dark 
> god?
>
> The medieval Christian mystics (Meister Eckhart, Ruysbroeck) often 
> told that God
> is "creative void" or "creative darkness" or even "creative 
> nothingness"  - I am sure
> Wolfe knows this very well. When Lee says "dark god"  - I have an 
> impression -
> he refers to modern mythology, where "dark" means "bad", "light" means 
> "good".
>
> cheers
>
> Sergei 

excellent! Before the creation there was "nothingness." Not nothing.

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