From: "tom" 
Subject: Re: (urth) God in the Machine
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:22:29 GMT


Michael Straight writes:
> Re: Garden of Eden:
> 
> If Whorl=Garden and Pas=God, then Outsider=???

Actually, the whole thing plays out as an almost perfect parallel
to some Gnostic cosmologies:

Whorl = Garden
Pas+family = Aeons
Outsider = true God
inhumi = evil spirits

Even the cylinder shape with the people inside is a nice inversion
of the real world.

Of course, there are a lot of different Gnosticisms.  YMMV.

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