Other than that

From: Nick Effingham <wal_at_eff.u-net.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 21:06:35 +0100


David Cake:

>Perhaps the Secret allows you to choose your Other (only between
>available candidates, though)? Thus allowing Yelm to choose the friendly
>Dendara rather than the Empty Emperor, thus allowing him to defeat
>Kazkurtum

 I think that choosing your Other wouldn't quite work -- your Other is everything that you are not -- to choose your Other, merely change yourself. Of course, since you are now Illuminated, changing your personality to suit your philosophy, isn't tricky.
 Illumination, as you said, reconciles your differences, and thus means that you and your Other become One. Thus, prving your One and the Many theory. The "does not grant free will" idea has gone over my head, are you implying that free will is lost by Illumination, or that free will cannot be gained by Illumination?
 I would be careful about using GRoY myths to help establish Yelm's true Illuminated nature, as it was written by someone who wasn't Illuminated and so they did not understand themselves to be able to write it down.

Nick E.

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