Sincerely,
Paul W. Stolar
From David
Perhaps the Stygians do something similar - through carefully
controlled experience of the process of interacting with the great powers
as deities with personalities, you can learn to transcend the impulse, to
master it and not let it master you. In this way, you can gain some of the
more flexible understanding of the otherworld that the theists have (the
human mind just finds deities easier to deal with than abstract runic
powers, IMO), but without falling from the worship of the Invisible God. If
you are Arkat, or know his most secret teachings (illumination), repeating
the process with many cults (and thus gaining a greater understanding of
the process quicker) is easy. If you are not, you may still walk the path,
though much slower. The Stygians are supposed to consciously comparing
their sorcerous and theist relationships to the otherworld, and learning
that they are the same, and in this way becoming better able to understand
their relationship to the Invisible God.
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