[UA] Jesus Christ, SuperAvatar!

[Allen Smith]

On Dec 2, 12:11am, Corey Liss wrote:

> Hmmm.  This actually plays well into the idea that the "end of the
> world" which happens when the IC is filled is symbolic/metaphoric,
> rather than real...  Jesus, then, is actually the Comte; the
> crucifixion is the point when he ascends to the IC and completes the
> Godhead, and the resurrection is when he returns, the IC emptied, and
> starts the cycle anew.  His decision to do it this way, depending on
> how you want to handle it, was either dictated by the way the previous
> IC had been filled (thus requiring him to sacrifice himself in order
> to complete it properly), or else was his way of putting a particular
> spin on it -- or maybe it's just the way it has to be done: In order
> for the First and Last Man to ascend, he has to be symbolically
> sacrificed.  (If the latter, then the cycle previous to that may have
> ended with Osiris;

With the transition being the Agricultural Revolution? That'd fit with 
the agricultural ties (the Nile flooding and giving water to the land) 
of Osiris.

> you could probably make a case that the next one
> ended with Charles II, or Louis XVI, or Lincoln, or, um, the last
> emperor of China; I forget his name...)

I doubt the last emperor of China; something a bit earlier (the
Rennaisance) or something to do with the Industrial Revolution would 
make sense.

	-Allen

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Allen Smith				easmith at beatrice.rutgers.edu
	

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