From: simon_hibbs@lycosmail.com
Date: Thu 10 Feb 2000 - 15:31:11 EET
>Peter :
>
>>> Are there Gloranthan philosophers who wrote like the
>>> greeks on these matters?
>
>> Yes.
>
>Who?
I don't think we have the names of very many historical malkioni
thologians and philosophers. We have names for some God Learners,
but information is sketchy.
>What meaningful differences are there between these
>and the greeks (or their philosophies, if you prefer)?
I think it shouldn't be very difficult to sketch out realistic
looking philosophical schools within the broad umbrella of
Malkionism. The tricky bit is constructing philosophical
systems that agree and can justify/support the known sects
of malkionism.
I believe Greg has a fair amount of unpublished material on
western beliefs that are relevent to this. Tasters of it have
come out at various conventions, including the western story
of the creation, fragments of the Abiding Book and so on.
At the moment it's probably best to keep things sketchy and
not ascribe specific precepts to specific churches.
For example I'm sure there are some malkioni who believe in
Universal Hylemorphism, i.e. they believe that everything other
than the IG is material except the IG, who is immaterial. Other
malkioni will have beliefs similar to Thomas Aquinas, who
believed that Angels for example are immaterial beings of pure
intelect, but that they can manifest a material form temporarily
to interact with the physical world. We know that malkioni are
materialists, but there are materialists and Materialists. It's
so much more fun to have dissention in the ranks.
Kabbalism is also a rich picking ground for malkioni metaphysics.
Some kabbalistic and hermetic ideas about the nature of magical
acts seem to have had a strong influence on Greg's descriptions
of malkioni beliefs about sorcery. You can probably get a lot
of mileage out of gloranthified theories about the prophet Malkion
based on the kabbalistic figure of Adam Kadmon.
For an introduction to kabbalism :
http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/nok/index.htm
Simon Hibbs
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