From: s.manning@ic.ac.uk
Date: Wed 03 Nov 1993 - 16:15:31 EET
Nick, you are currently pushing a "trinitarian" view of the Invisible God(IG),
prompted by recent submissions. In particular, you have written
>Do away with Lords. The Invisible God has three aspects:
>
> Omnipresent - Peasants
> Omnipotent - Knights
> Omniscient - Wizards
>
>Who needs more?
Nice try, but you have forgotten one other important aspect of The IG and that is that "He" only gives and never takes (see the Prosopaedia), which I guess is roughly the idea of God's Love in Malkionism. Since the beneficence of lords is always stressed in the legends of the matter of Britain, I add to the structure above
"Only giving"(*) - Lords.
There, all four castes.(* This is a clumsy way of putting it, but I feel that the idea is correct).
Incidently, when you also proposed "was, is and shall be", I don't think that this is really another religious 3-thing, but just a statement about the basic relationships along the line of less than (past, was), equality (present, is) and greater than (future, shall be), because the Malkioni, I'm sure, view time as being linear. However, we do know that the Malkioni love numerology (see the Jrusteli Monomyth in GoG) and I suspect that they are pretty hot on geometry, like all good wizards (see, Pratchett).
However, as for genuine heresies, it is a nice idea that there may well be some Malkioni crazy enough to fall from the True teaching of the Prophets and fall into the sin of trinitarianism.
BTW, "orthodox" theology concerning the Trinity, it is believed, arose from the percieved threat of the Christian gnostics, who were the first true theologians of Christianity ( E. Pagels, "The Gnostics Gospels"; K. Rudolph, "Gnosis). I wonder if anything like this has ever happened in Glorantha? Probably.
Joerg, I think that the Aeolian Heresy is great, a wonderful example of a syncretic Gloranthan religion.
Simon Manning.
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