Re: Saint veneration and 'spiritual pollution'

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:52:23 +1300


Philippe Siguard:

>- I hope this is not to be generalized to any kind of beneficient
>sorcery praticed on non-Malkioni ?

No, it is simply liturgical magic cast on a congregation. Sorcery spells use a different basis and can be cast on anybody.

>- What about the Aeolian Church ? If a congregation following Saint Aeol
>tries to give a benediction on a group of Urox initiates, to help them
>fight the Chaos in the Queendom of Jab, does this give a nasty backslash
>to everyone ?

The Uroxi initiates are pagans and not in the congregation of Saint Taurox. Thus any liturgical blessings from the Bishop-  or Saint Taurox will not affect them.

>The problem is the same for an Orlanth Devotee trying to
>use his magic to protect a Healer of Saint Chalana, the White Lady...

He is not using liturgical magic and so the question does not arise.

>- What about the Lunar Empire ? Does a congregation worshipping a
>sorcerous saint or a sorcerous facet of the Goddess if there is one
>(can't remember, but there must be one) have problems with benedictions
>on a Lunar citizen worshipping a theist part of the Goddess ?

Is the Lunar citizen a member of the Saint's congregation? Then the answer is there is no problem. If he is not a member of the Saint's congregation, then the blessing cannot be cast on him.

>What a Carmanian liturgist (if there is an equivalent) consider pagan,
>acceptable, or spiritually polluting ?

Carmanians do not have liturgists blessing the common people. They have theistic priests and sorcerous viziers.

--Peter Metcalfe

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