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Sorry, cut out most of this because I just wanted to respond to one
paragraph<br>
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Roy C. Lackey wrote:
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I know that Apheta says that the H's wanted Sev to succeed because that
strain of mankind born of Ushas might produce the Hieros, which would in
turn shape the H's in Briah. But that doesn't change the fact that the H's
already exist and live in Yesod. There is no practical point in endlessly
repeating what has already been done in universe after universe. That's
where the Increate comes in. They were doing his bidding. The goal was to
improve and transform mankind "by some minute step" in each cycle into
something nearer and dearer to the Increate, just as they themselves had
been transformed by mankind into a race that was "united, compassionate,
just." (CITADEL, 242)</pre>
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<span class="317000416-05042005"><font face="Arial" size="2">Why is it
implausible that the H's are working along a non-linear timeline to
prevent anything from forestalling their own development. Certainly,
it could be said that if we could work outside of time and guide our
lives from childhood, we might do things differently with all of that
20/20 hindsight. Now imagine that we have more than 20/20 hindsight,
because we operate on a different plane of existance than the creatures
that we are gradually manipulating. <br>
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-Matt<br>
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