(urth) Serpents and Undines

[David Stockhoff]

Perhaps. "If you believe the Autarchy is divinely ordained" is the key 
phrase. I don't see him as having Pope status, though maybe some do.

Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 7/31/2010 1:04 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> I'd think the main issue would be substituting yourself for the
>> Increate, not for the Autarch.
>
> They are but two steps on the same stairway to damnation, one a bit 
> further from the end, or even the same step if you believe the 
> Autarchy is divinely ordained; by presuming to substitute yourself for 
> the Autarch you are substituing your choice for the Increate's. 
> Vodalus is probably too much of a ignorant materialist (in the view of 
> the nurse and the BOTNS's conceit) to go full black magician and seek 
> to literally place himself on a level with the Increate.
>