From: Peter Metcalfe (P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Tue 05 Mar 1996 - 10:44:08 EET
Jim Chapin:
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>given that illumination is supposed to be reached by NOT trying for it
>(sort of a Calvinist "election" model?) and that its results are supposed
>to be unpredictable, including insanity and loss of pre-existing
>beliefs (though not in all cases) how can a bureaucracy be built upon such
>an uncertain base?
I think that Illumination can be found by 'trying for it'. What LoT
The Lunar hierarchy have a set list of questions so that when the
The Street Preachers, Freethinkers and Rebel Philosophers have their
Accept No Substitutes!
said was that if one was seeking it in order to exploit it then one
is unlikely to become illuminated. This is miles away from asking
around for a Teacher of Illumination so that the great mysteries of
life can be 'explained'.
seeker becomes Illuminated, she does not become mentally deranged
as well. Many independant Nysalorean Preachers attack these
canonical questions as leading the Seeker into a state of awareness
which predisposes them to accept the corrupt status quo as 'the best
of all possible worlds'. Some have even gone so far as to attack the
Lunar Church as 'Gravediggers of the Red Moon'.
own standard questions which vary from school to school. Their canon
is incomplete, but they make up for it with by knowing Potent Questions
that have been Proscribed. They say that the asking of these Questions
allows the Seeker to attain a heightened state of Illumination which
does not cause 'wholesale acceptance of the Creed and Practices of the
Lunar Church'. However these forbidden questions are dangerous according
to the Lunar Authorities in that they cause various types of insanity
when the Seeker becomes Illuminated. For instanse, the Heretics of
Vitality seek to become undead because they know the riddle lore of the
Vampire Kings of Tanisor. The Questions of the White Moon Heretics
causes the seeker to become totally Pacific and Useless to Society.
Seek Illumination from Authorized Sources Only!
- --Peter Metcalfe
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