JL - TLA.

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:44:02 GMT

Julian Lord:
> Malkioni sorcerors do certainly 'channel' energies provided by God.

I don't think that's their understanding, and I don't think it's true in the "standard cosmology". (Not in any direct sense: obviously in some sense, all magic has been "provided" by the Creator.)

> > AFAICS, in for example
> > "old time" Dara Happa, this would not have been the method used:
> > emulation of or identification with the deity would have been seen
> > as presumptuous and heretical
>
> Careful : I made a deliberate distinction between "the god" and
> "that part of the god that performs the Feats in question".

And how meaningful is such a distinction to theists? Come to that, how meaningful is the latter conception, entirely?

> > You're speaking of a feat as if it were an otherworldly entity, which
> > doesn't even seem "well-typed". Say rather that a Feat is _the act
> > of_ manifesting a portion of Vinga. (I'll skip "transcendental", if
> > it's all the same...)
>
> It's the same statement taken from a different direction.

They're quite different in the terms of the original point, it seems to me. The Feat per se is something that the celebrant _does_, not some otherworldly "thing".

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