>Personally, I think the idea has a goodly amount of merit, BUT -- I
>think that it might potentially only be applicable to certain sects
>of Malkionism where formal intellectualism is seen as the privileged
>pathway for access to God.
I don't see where "privileged" comes from as I was specifically describing how I feel sorcerers and wizards _should_ work rather than describing them as the only path towards God. Given that the Malkioni myths are all about descent from the land of logic, I can't see any Malkioni sect not having a place for wizard-theologicians or sorcerer-philosophers in their lands.
>the more creative forms of magic that you suggest (and that I myself
>cryptically alluded to in an earlier post) tend culturally to be
>taboo, evil things that the God Learners did in the Bad Old Days.
I don't have much time to decipher cryptic allusions these days. I was discussing University Learning and Theology which are pillars of Malkionism all throughout the ages. What the God Learners that did was bad was fooling around with foreign gods and myths which I wasn't talking about.
> > Like grimoires, theses are dedicated to a rune. (etc)
>OTOH some of that seems like its been directly lifted from various
>general descriptions of sorcery that either have or have not been
>published, officially and otherwise. :)
I don't find the accusation of plagiarism to be very funny no matter how many smilies you use.
>It would for instance be wildly and radically divergent from the
>magical methods of the Traditionalist Knights of the Castle Coast for example,
The Knights of the Castle Coast still have wizards and their Arthurian quests does not prevent them from having learned scribblers in their courts.
--Peter Metcalfe
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