God in the Machine

tom · 10 Oct 2002, 17:22 · from urth-v0210.mbox · original

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From: "tom" <tom at bitterman.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) God in the Machine
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:22:29 GMT
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Michael Straight writes:
> Re: Garden of Eden:
>=20
> If Whorl=3DGarden and Pas=3DGod, then Outsider=3D???

Actually, the whole thing plays out as an almost perfect parallel
to some Gnostic cosmologies:

Whorl =3D Garden
Pas+family =3D Aeons
Outsider =3D true God
inhumi =3D evil spirits

Even the cylinder shape with the people inside is a nice inversion
of the real world.

Of course, there are a lot of different Gnosticisms.  YMMV.

--=20

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