>I'm not sure where you're fitting the atheists in there - the whole
>point about them is that they don't believe God is accessible at all,
>with or without layers of priesthood.
Gloranthan Atheists believe that God is _impersonal_ rather than inaccessible.
>The group who take the view that God if accessible without the
>necessary intercession of priests would be the Hrestoli.
All sects that believe in a personal god would take that view as there are numerous examples of non-priestly Saints in the Malkioni canon.
> >Another Western approach to mysticism, or sorcero-muysticism,
> >if such a thing is possible....
>If there such a thing [as sorcero-mysticism], I suspect the
>Perfecti are it. Certainly they appear to be mystics of some
>stripe, since they avoid the use of magic.
The Zzaburites are also sorcerous mystics too as is stated in HW:RiG p218 "...[non-eastern] mystics include the Perfecti and the Zzaburites among westerners (being the perspectives of a personal and impersonal god respectively)..."
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