God in the Machine

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

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From: Josh Geller <dclxvi at dclxvi.best.vwh.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) God in the Machine
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:22:37 +0000 (GMT)
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, tom wrote:
> Michael Straight writes:

>> Re: Garden of Eden:

>> 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.

Orthodox Christianity is one of them.





















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