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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:22:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Josh GellerSubject: Re: (urth) God in the Machine On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, tom wrote: > 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. Orthodox Christianity is one of them. . --