(urth) mystery of the guild

[John Watkins]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:18 AM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> I am skeptical that something as vast as the RCC could ever "become"
> something as tiny and obscure as the Guild, but there are certainly
> correspondences and connections. The Guild could be a fragment of the
> Church, perhaps descended from some actual monastic order. But which one?
> They all seem pretty benevolent to me.
>

Although Dan Simmons, in *Hyperion*, doesn't hesitate to posit a Catholic
Church with only a few thousand members.



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> A couple of theories on the mystery of the guild from the archives:
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> 1)  That it has to do with Auturchs and the rearing of them
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0304/3112.txt.shtml
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> 2) That the guild = Roman Catholic Church (I know Silk was described by
> Wolfe in interview as being in the broadest possible sense a member of the
> seekers after truth - and he is a priest)
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0015/0073.shtml
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> I am inclined to believe the first one, that Ymar left the guild know that
> they would be very important at some point in the future.
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