(urth) The Wizard

[Andrew Mason]

entonio wrote:
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> No dia 11/03/2012, ?s 17:07, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu:
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>> It is too huge of a stretch to imagine everything is the same but Jesus.
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> I suppose you mean 'but without Jesus'. Otherwise, it's no stretch at all to imagine *similar* (they aren't necessarily the same) things and a similar Jesus - but one who was merely a man and whose church was not divinely upheld.

But he might be merely a man (in the sense of 'not God') and yet his
church be divinely upheld. It seems that the Outsider is in some way
behind this church, since it is through it that he got into the
Chrasmologic Writings; and the Outsider is a real god who answers
prayer. (I would say _the_ real God, on theological, symbolic and
extra-textual Wolfean grounds; but at the very least a real god.)  It
seems to be part of the meaning of the text - and I suspect part of
Wolfe's real belief - that God reveals himself through religions other
than the absolutely true one.