(urth) Aside on Christ figures in TBotNS

Son of Witz sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Thu Dec 11 12:01:59 PST 2008


>I had forgotten that Tzadkiel's son fought and died in the judicial 
>combat that confirmed Severian's success as Epitome.
>
>If Tzadkiel is the Demiurge, and the Demiurge is God, then that makes 
>the son, well, his Son. Not sacrificed, but exposed to the risk of 
>death, because Tzadkiel thought it wrong to judge Urth without putting 
>something of his own on the block.
>
>Again, I am reminded of the theory that TBotNS presents parodies of the 
>true religion, and the phrase in Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius that Wolfe 
>has pointed at as an inspiration for TBotNS: "an atropious or banal 
>reality."


Yeah, but as I understand it, the Demiurge is NOT God. The Demiurge THINKS it's God. Half-Creator/ False-Creator.   I'm not clear on how Christ as son of Yahweh fits in, but I believe that he exists as part of the Godhead, not as actual spawn of Yahweh.  I don't know though.  Surely there are many opinions.  In a work like Valis or Divine Invasion, PKD shows a gnostic world where the Logos is a healing energy sent in from the true God into the realm of the Demiurge.  With that sort of view, Christ is still elevated far beyond the false creator.











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