Re: Illumination

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:33:20 -0700

>
> >Illuminates (and, indeed, *all* Mystics) are Aliens in all three
Otherworlds
> >(Mysticism has no Otherworld).
> >
> Are we to interpret this as
> a) all that stuff about Lunar Illumination in various places (Entekosias
> etc) is wrong
> or
> b) the Lunars are actually quite screwed in the Otherworld, and all that
> stuff about them being great heroquesters is wrong
> or
> c) something doesn't work here.
>
> Take Valare Addi, for example - Sevened (ie Illuminated), obviously
> doing pretty well in the Otherworld.
> This is a very serious enquiry.

Valare is Sevened, but she's not illuminated, per se. She has more likely acquried the secret of her cult. She is a saint, after all, because she is the Queen of Chronoportation.

Basically, Illumination is a BAD thing becasue people are not prepared for it.

It is more a redefinition of what "Illumination" means.

Illumination is the *unexpected and unprepared* collision with the Mystic viewpoint that can drive you insane.

So all those Lunar Saints aren't "illuminated", they are something-elsed, which gives them cool stuff and doesn't screw them in the other world (like learning a Secret).

But basically, there will be more explanations later.

RR