Re: Red Emperor

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 21:19:15 +0100 (BST)


Nils Weinander:
> What about extending this a bit so that various institutions
> can determine a varying number of soul parts, but that none
> of them can determine _all_ of them? That would make it a
> lot harder to disprove an impostor, as you would have to
> make a number of institutions cooperate.

This is Only Any Fun if the different Parts actually start off in _different places_, and have to be Reabsorbed somehow... Otherwise, a test for a single Part would be as useful (and hence, boring) as a test for all of them. Sounds potentially amusing, I admit, but may be pushing the Canon Envelope.

> RE's singluarity: couldn't this mean simply that the Takenegi
> Great Self part remembers its previous lives over incarnations?

I think the RE certainly _does_ remember previous 'lives', but I hesitate to ascribe this to the Great Self, which is to do with altogether loftier matters. (Crude analysis: most people have no/an unawakened Seventh Part, but nevertheless manage to remember things...)

The memory may 'restored' to the body of the new Mask during the Egi Ritual, or at some other such point; and/or having such 'memories', even in flashes, may be a 'sign' that one has an 'Egi vocation', or what the RMM crowd might call a Mandate of the Moon...

Cheers,
Alex.


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