>
> I really
> don't want to get bogged down discussing the merits of subsequent
> buddhist philosophies and so have to bow out of this particular topic.
>
> I agree that further discussion is unlikely to be productive.
However, I still disagree that all mysticism will be (or even seem like) asceticism.
>
> > The closest we get is
> > something like the powers exibilted by Illuminates, who are, at best,
> badly
> > flawed mystics whose powers should be as dangerous to them as to the
> people
> > and society around them.
>
> Thinking further on this, I would treat Illumination (Classical) as
> being a Truth based (or should it be Illusion?) Talent and allow the
> illuminate to augment his magic with it - the result being that it
> becomes invisible to the gods and other sundry benefits.
>
Hmmm. So Illumination, as a failed mystic path, becomes a fairly standard magical ability (weird, yes, but easily modeled in the existing frame)? I kind of like that reasoning.
Peter Larsen
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