Re: Heroes and Gods

From: janjero_at_...
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 07:34:29 -0000

> >I have a definite feeling that Malkioni are kin to Aristoteles or
> >Plato and not to any RW religion (apart, maybe, Buddhism).
>
> Although their religion does make heavy use of philosophical
> concepts, so too did many Muslims and Christians (Ibn Rushd,
> Saint Augustine, Thomas Aquinas etc).

Thanks Peter and Jamie, but I stress, here, the Malkioni Otherworld: it is dead, full of concepts and essences and no living spiritual being. No angels, no cherubins, no spirits of the dead, just Nodesaints.

This is not StThomas, this is Plato!

The process of santification, in Malkioni, is a matter of personal growth, like in Buddhism, not a matter of "vocation" or of "obedience" or of "heroic adherence to the rule" or of "Extreme love".
Am I wrong?