A real problem with the discussion of "is illumination a good thing" is that the only way to find out is to get illuminated and then everything is topsy turvy. So what if the aim is destroying Glorantha (or, rather, hastening its destruction)? If you're illuminated, you may not see that as a bad thing. Or turning everyone and everything into gray ooze, for that matter. Illumination trumps all your prior priorities, including whether you think continuing to live is good and whether you think the universe ought to go on being.
It's insidious that way, isn't it?
OTOH, someone obviously is dangerously closed to Forbidden Knowledge
when they suggested that Illumination is nothing. When you have grasped it,
it certainly is.
If you are reading this, you are enlightened. <maniacal grin>
--Martin Crim
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