Comparitive metaphysics

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_voyager.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:25:00 +1300


Alex Ferguson:

>A. doesn't _manifest_ within the cosmos, though
>he's in some sense "mystically knowable" from within it, which I
>think is a very different proposition.

I refer you to the Vithelan Creation Myth where Durapdur becomes aware of the measures of Time, Space and Consciousness and perceives a lesser version of himself within those measures, Atrilith. Ergo Atrilith was manifested within the Cosmos.

NW>>>I have no problem with westerners somehow

>>>equating Vith and Zzabur, but you wouldn't get enlightened
>>>Gloranthan metaphysicists to agree that they are equals,
>>>while they just might agree down to 1/Atrilith/Creator.

Me>> This is giving supremacy to the mystical perspective, an error.

>If we read Nils as saying that this is what _Eastern_ 'enlightened
>Gloranthan metaphysicists' (and their symps) say, then I agree with
>him.

In which case they would be crap metaphysicians.

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