[UA] Culture of The OU

[Brian Nisbet]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:57:16AM +0200, Will wrote:
> > The other version is much harder to draw, but lets try:
> > Does that make more sense?
> 
> Well, more or less. Interesting version, but most of the symmetry is lost...
> And the inclusion of (a)lpha and (o)mega seems strange in a catholic (or at
> least christian) background.

I'm not sure if this is still On Topic or not... imo it is, but if not
then I'll happily switch to off list...

Why is alpha and omega strange?  It's one of the most constant themes in
Judeo-Christian teaching.  "I am the Alpha and the Omega says the Lord" -
"I am the Beginning and the End".  The theory is that God is all and at
the time the Greek letters would have been the educated way of explaining
that.  A hell of a lot of christian imagery has the alpha and omega in it.

To bring it slightly back on topic...

Of course the Alpha and Omega are also very fitting for the Comte, who
obviously would have been alive and well in the 4th Century AD.  It's
very, very probably he would have been hanging around Rome and Byzantium
as that's where all the interesting stuff was happening, so maybe it was a
sign he came up with originally.  I mean, it works, he was the first, he
will be the last and if the theories of him being the father of the first
child of the Mother archetype then Pater Noster would fit in quite well.

However me personally, I'll stick to my original interpretation.

B.

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