Re: SOLACE and SOLACE OF THE BODY : what are they ?

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_951OcPIlheiPrTRxWlBrzCB9tyxw-ggMxLhZNw4p37yrR7P_0rDB0CFiqr8VjWbkPxT>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:38:56 +1300

On 1/19/2011 10:39 PM, David Cake wrote:
> I think it more likely that Solace of the Body is just a
> phrase, and actually refers to the solace that is necessary because
> of sheer tragedy of being mortal - that 'of the Body' part is
> referring to the sorrow that is comforted.
Another possibility is that the meaning of body may have simply evolved. When Malkion first preached it, one's body may have been understood as one's nature, self or identity. But when people started getting killed, the meanings of body may have simply being whittled down to the vessel of flesh and blood.

> My impression is that Brithini, according to orthodox
> Malkionism, not only do not experience Solace, but are almost defined
> by not acknowledging (and so not experiencing) Solace.
The trouble is in Revealed Mythologies, Zzabur describes himself as throwing the gates of Solace open to the world (p2). One can get around this difficulty by redefining the meaning of Solace for the Brithini (ie Solace of the Body is personal immortality). Zzabur may have a more arcane understanding of what he means by the gates of solace - it could mean something like allowing the energies of the Abstract Plane to provide Solace for the World Body so that he imbues glorantha with immortality.
> If they
> acknowledged Solace and so acknowledged the message of Old Malkion
> (and denying Zzaburs denial of it), they would not be Brithini at
> all, but simply Malkioni.

I think the Schism goes like this.

1. Malkion proclaims the Revelations of Now.
2. Malkion decides that he was in error and that the Revelations of Now are wrong.
3. Zzabur has Malkion put in a home.

If the Brithini do acknowledge Solace they would do so according in terms of the Revelations of Now, not the new wave mystical bullshit interpretation put forward by a Great Man gone Ga-ga before his time.

--Peter Metcalfe