<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">That's a good analysis of the mirror metaphor. Yes, as the moon reflects the sun, so too the minor gods reflect the Increate. Well done.<div><br></div><div>And of course the scraps (glimpses of knowledge without understanding?) result in horrors the way Sauron's messing with elves yielded orcs.<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 12/14/10, Lee Berman <i><severiansola@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Lee Berman <severiansola@hotmail.com><br>Subject: (urth) Father Inire: teratoid<br>To: urth@lists.urth.net<br>Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 3:15 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; ">As such, a nasty Urth is ruled by an essentially evil, materialistic
demiurge who has created and who controls<br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">everything. (some pagans posit that this demiurge was Jahweh, the genocidal, jealous god of the Old Testament.)<br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">This demiurge controls everything with various agents in various shapes and forms from the noble Ultan to the<br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">demonic Hethor. But all are aspects of the demiurge. Important to notice that his mirrors produce heavenly images, <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">proving that he isn't really all bad. The central avatar of this being in our story is, of course, Father Inire.<br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width:
initial; outline-color: initial; "><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Conversely, gnostic heaven is ruled by an essentially good, spiritual archangel, Tzadkiel who mostly stays above the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">fray (obeying the Prime Directive, heh) but not entirely. Both Yesod and The Ship (while travelling) exist outside <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Urth and the material universe and so may be considered as spiritual realms. Important to notice that mirror sails <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">on the ship produce monsters leading to bloody, deadly conflict on the Ship and Yesod, proving that the heavenly <br style="line-height: 1.2em;
outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">archangel isn't really all good. (Hethor's mirrors produce monsters because they are sail scraps).</span></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>