This week in Google alerts

Lee Berman · 08 Nov 2011, 03:06 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 22:06:32 -0500
Subject: (urth) This week in Google alerts
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>Andrew Mason: Yes. I think that _Long Sun_ starts out looking like an

>allegory of gnosticism, with the Outsider as the true God, and Pas as the
>Demiurge. But in the course of the series it becomes clear that there
>isn't a straightforward opposition between the true God and the gods
>of the world; some of them can be redeemed, some may even turn out to
>have been aspects of the true God all along. That's a redemption of
>paganism. I'm not sure it can be called a redemption of gnosticism,
>because the opposition is central to gnosticism as it's generally
>understood. rather I'd call it a rejection of gnosticism by redemption
>of the gnostic gods of the world (demiurge/archons).



I agree with this view. I also think it is congruent with WOlfe's stated

personal beliefs regarding the gods of the pagan world. When placed in

the position of demiurge rather than tyrant, Typhon/Pas was constrained

to act as one.



(FWIW, I consider this an important principle in modern global politics-

allow a terrorist group to assume the position of being a government and

they start acting like one. Israel should take notes from Wolfe, unless

their current anti-Palestinian state policy is secretly in hopes of not

losing a convenient scapegoat)

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