Re: Travels of Biturian Varosh question

From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:43:30 -0700


morganconrad <morganconrad_at_...> wrote:
>

> BS. I know the Lunars have slaves, but definitely NOT due to their
> philosophy, which is "We are all one" [sic] and very anti-slavery.

I don't know just what the Lunar rationale for slavery is--but I don't see how "we are all us" is at all incompatible with slavery. It seems more along the lines of "there is neither Dara Happan nor Heortling, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Sedenya" (Galatians 3:28, somewhat paraphrased...) That is, "we are all us" doesn't mean that nobody is a slave; rather, it means that slaves are "us", too, and are joined with us in Her.

...that said, I don't get how the Lunar teaching is that "we're all slaves". Perhaps that's the Dara Happan teaching, though? i.e. that everyone is, properly regarded, the "slave" of the one above him in the hierarchy, all the way up to the Emperor, who's the slave of his Father, great Yelm?) Just my speculation...

--AMS

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