[UA] Culture of The OU

[Will]

Brian Nisbet <lir at lspace.org> a écrit :
> 
> 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.

I stand corrected. I associated alpha and omega with greek (and hermetics)
symbolism. My knowledge of christian "history" is, well, more like abysmal :)

> 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.

Somehow I see this alpha and omega stuff as some kind of evolution. At first
the Comte would be the Alpha (of the pack, and so on), ie the warrior and
leader, with his own lust and fertility. And then he would evolve (or somehow
downgrade) to an "omega role", less active and more imbued with
wisdom/sapience as the IC is filling up its positions. Maybe it could have an
impact on the way he appears at the moment (older?).

Also, do you think the IC uses some agents as some kind of Human Resources
department and/or headhunters?

Will

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