Re: [WorldofGlorantha] Digest Number 26

In message <193037.10615.qm_at_fZpCh3GR7NsOikMi2K7sFIaSQ2G6Sq7lEZUW1UajykI-mgBzBhEU8akrkAWW_R12Fg.yahoo.invalid> Ian Cooper writes:

>Roderick wrote:
>
>>It's not the Worshipper, and it's not the Spell, but the way magic is
>>taught by Makabeus (or any other Lunar Sorcery-user. (Lunar Spirits
>>and Lunar feats *are* cyclical - it's just spells that are wierd this
>>way).
>
>I'd suspect it is the way of connecting to the node that Makabeus teaches
>which is cyclical. To further Roderick's use of an analogy when I look up
>a company who provide a service I may have serveral ways to contact them:
>phone, snail mail, visit their shop. Each one works differently, but the
>end result - using their services is the same. So the Lunar religion
>teaches a different way to access nodes than Western sorcery. The end
>result, access to the node is the same, but the Lunar method has variation
>caused by phase of the Moon.So when a Makabeus sorceror finds a foreign
>grimoire it tells him where the node is, but he has to use his Makabeus
>approach to getting there.

I've been confused by the word "source". I'd interpreted it as the origin of the magic - the Moon being the Lunar source rather than the essence, god or spirit planes. What you are referring to I'd describe as the "method".

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Donald Oddy
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