[UA] RE: Christ and such.(was Unusual Plot...)

[Allen Smith]

On Dec 1,  6:22pm, Epoch wrote:
> I like it.  And then you could take Christ's Ascension as having warped
> the world in all the ways that Ascensions usually do, especially ones that
> are either first Ascensions or ones that twist the presently held
> Archetype.  Maybe push the whole concept of a sacrifice more towards the
> concept of "The willing person, chosen by god," rather than "The not
> necessarily willing person, chosen by others as a gift to the god."
> 
> I don't know how well supported that is by actual sacrificial practices of
> the day, though.

As an interesting note, the main sacrificial religion currently
around, Santeria (and its various varieties and related religions) has 
the component that the animal chosen for sacrifice has to eat some
ritually prepared grain (or other foodstuffs) during the ceremony. If
it doesn't, its spirit has refused to be sacrificed, and sacrificing
it isn't valid.

> However, if you do choose to perceive Christ as having ascended to the IC,
> you have the troubling thought of whether or not he can or has been pushed
> out, and what he'd be like if he were (The Aleister Crowley thing is cute,
> but honestly, Aleister Crowley wasn't nearly nasty enough to be a
> Renounced, Biblical Christ.

Quite. Crowley mainly called himself the Antichrist to get publicity
and to oppose Christianity, not Christ, similarly to Nietsche. In
actual fact, part of his "do what thou will" philosophy includes the
idea that if you're actually doing your core will - not going off of
what others have inculcated into you - you won't harm anyone who
doesn't deserve it.

	-Allen

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Allen Smith				easmith at beatrice.rutgers.edu
	

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