From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@voyager.co.nz)
Date: Tue 04 Aug 1998 - 11:06:31 EEST
Trotsky
>It depends on your definition of 'material'. The spirit plane is material
>in that it is real and provable in Glorantha. But 'material' generally
>means 'physical as opposed to spiritual' - so by definition, the spirit
>plane is not material in that sense.
I do think however that the materialists would have a materialistic
explanation for the existance of the spirit plane.
SM>> So, my question remains: why calling Malkioni and people that practise
>> sorcery materialists?
>Because their magic doesn't employ the spiritual world in addition to the
>material.
A debatable point. It would be safer IMO to say that they approach
the spirit world (and manipulate it thereby) from the materialistic
viewpoint in terms of manifestations of Impersonal Laws and as not
the dwelling places of spirits. Admittedly this is an Ideal for the
Malkioni as people can find plenty of counterexamples in the literature.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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