In that case, the statement "The same way that one group of humans could have a better grasp of science,
or economics, or poker," isn't true at all, because we don't advance in our understanding of these subjects by revelation.<br><br>"Third person omniscience" doesn't exist in real life; is it possible that Silk is delusional, and that his theophany was some combination of hallucination and wishful thinking? I think so. We are reading, after all, a sort of belated account written by Horn, right? What I am getting at is that there is no narrator that arbitrates experiences here on earth (religious or otherwise), and can tell outside observers (like Wolfe tells the reader in <i>Long Sun</i>) whether or not someone has experienced a revelation. That having been said, there is real justification for saying that one class of persons can have a better or more accurate idea of "the infinite" than any other, if the only evidence is based in revelation. <br>
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Unless The Divine is not a concept like Economics or Geography, but
instead a Person like, for example, the Outsider who is not
discovered or understood but instead reveals himself in finite ways
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