(urth) An Old mystery ...

[Son of Witz]

>> >> So, is Christ's Mass Genocide at the second coming not 'Christlike?'
>> >>
>> >
>> >Not exactly sure that's a fair way to describe the Second Coming...the
>> >End of the Universe is naturally a "mass genocide" in a sense, but a
>> >very limited one...
>> >
>> >> I suppose you can argue that there is also the salvation of souls with that
>> >> Apocolypse as opposed to Urth's.  However, I don't think you can write that
>> >> out of New Sun.  We don't know what happens to everyone's soul on Urth when
>> >> it's destroyed, but, presumably, if this a world in which God exists, then
>> >> SOMETHING happens to those souls.  They are not all extinguished forever.
>> >> Some may go to DIS or hell or whatever
>> >
>> >Well, yes, but neither Severian nor, it seems, Tzadkiel is the master
>> >of life and death.  They have no sure knowledge of life "on the other
>> >side," nor any authority over creation the way a divine being does.
>>
>>
>> "Do you know the meaning of that word Hierodule you use? I am Malrubius, and no Hierodule. Rather I serve those the Hierodules serve. Hierodule means holy slave. Do you think there can be slaves without masters?"
>>
>> The Hierogrammites are like Archangels doing the busy work of God.
>> Tzadkiel is not the demiurgos, nor the increate. He is yet a holy servant.
>
>So he says, and maybe so he believes.  There are textual reasons, laid
>out at length by others, to doubt that Tzadkiel has any sort of
>mystical or special access to the Divine mind.

Does Anyone have access?
One can serve without understanding.
we are all Tools.