Re: A few thoughts still on chaos

From: valkoharja <rintasaa_at_MH6YWGtgibka3f_nNJBjp7KN82xj3SiAI-iLxygwW2-U84nZCrLQMVFc_hqrw1bR5xn>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:57:42 -0000

I like having ambiguity in this. In my view an illuminate (and parhaps a western sorcerer) could well say that gods are static, and the active part is you, embodying and reflecting the god in the inner world.

If you have broken a taboo of your cult and are being punished, you are actually punishing yourself (according to the illuminate). The agents of retribution come to plague you because you feel quilty and think you are going to be punished.

If you could truly feel no guilt, and nobody in the community knew about your crime, then there would be nothing to attract the agents of retribution.

That's what an illuminate might well say in my Glorantha, and he would (mostly) be correct too. I like the idea that on some level the approaches to magic (theism, animism, sorcery...) are all ways to approach the same things, and the differences are to an extent based on the internal framework of the magician. Illumination breaks the framework, and the things can get really weird for the poor illuminate (or would that be occluded fool by today's wording).

  -Adept            

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