From: Donald Wilton (glidedw@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu)
Date: Tue 21 Sep 1993 - 12:00:06 EEST
Lord Sagon, Sorcerer of Lost Brythos, older than your god (certainly):
It seems that those of you who pester my apprentice Donald have failed to understand the true meaning of "god cults." Cults exist to both exacerbate and try to heal the difficulty of the initiate and common people, in dealing with the natural result of the prevalence of Magick. Gods don't exist as people, but as expressions of natural forces and the fearful or ecstatic desires of the masses. Spirits occur in a natural fashion, and evolve intelligence, in a spirit fashion, having nothing to do with our definition of intelligence. This enables them to provide a focus for our desires, when we give them the means to deal with magic, power and fulfilling our desires, they do so. ZZZabur may have the means to tell you whether or not the spirits develope into something other than initial parasites. I feel that this explains the loss of Brythos, and where it went. If so, it would explain the Power required to move that land.
Initiates of cults are getting what they want, rather than perceiving reality. Gods are powerful spirits, who grew out of vain desire, for what on Brythos, we called "the impossible free lunch, for somebody always pays for it." You can't have your religion cake, and eat it, while simply expecting no price, for the emergence of another cake. The responsibility of Power is lost on those who have Dieties. This explains the damage of chaos, those who give nothing of their effort, and take.
I enjoyed instructing those of you who have failed to understand in the past. I realizet hat you may take time to adjust, but that's been true of the simple folk, of cultures as diverse as the Lunar, to the Orlanthi. I know that given suffient data, we'll all agree on the reality of the nonentities of the gods, and the future remains bright!
Invisible God Who?
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