[UA] Question

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 11:30 AM 06/28/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Becoming more and more aligned with an archetype takes effort.  While your
>actions play a role, your sense of identity is also involved.  You want to
>jack into the power of a higher order being, great - but there's a price to
>be paid, and part of that price involves alignment of your identity with the
>archetype.

Heh.  I think of this as the "skin vs. suit" argument.  Is avatar-hood
something you can just take on and put off like a suit, or is it something
you have to BE (the way your skin is part of you).  I imagine that the
small portion of the OU that knows what Avatars really are debate this with
furious intensity.  (Hm... that gives me a fun idea for someone who's
inadvertantly following an Avatar path because s/he found some book that
purports to be a book of rituals and spells.  The complicated actions in
the book are all appropriate to one of the Avatars, so doing the actions
puts you on the path, even though you're not aware of the path itself.)

FWIW, I come down heavily on the "suit" side.  Adepts are the people who
have to contort their souls and personalities for power (which is why a
school of magick has to be an obsession skill).  Avatars?  I see that more
like being a garbage man.  It doesn't matter to people if you're passionate
about sanitation or if you're just a schmoe putting in the hours.  As long
as the solid waste gets picked up in a timely fashion, it's all the same to
them.  Why should the IC care what YOU think?  

-G.
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