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From: jay@well.UUCP (Jay Kinney)
Newsgroups: net.origins,net.religion,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Dan Boscovich steps forward to talk about God
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 03:47:22 EDT
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Summary: Re the Damager-God discussion


I don't know about anyone else, but I've been greatly enjoying this
Damager-God discussion and have found it quite stimulating.  I don't
think that anyone has mentioned that Paul Zimmerman's concepts closely
match the ancient gnostic concept of God as a Demiurge who *thinks*
he is the Big Cheese, but is actually just a Creator-god somewhat down
on the Totem-pole. The gnostics posited an Unknown God far beyond the
realm of Good & Evil who oversaw the whole mess and to which one could
make contact--once one saw thru the Demiurge.
   These ideas are also part of the later thinking of SF author
Philip K. Dick (see his novel VALIS, for instance).
   If anyone is interested, the first issue of a new magazine called
GNOSIS: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions is just now (finally)
coming out with the initial issue's theme on "Gnosticism--Ancient and
Modern". Material includes articles on gnostic cosmologies, plus 
previously unpublished material from PKDick's journals. 
  Subscriptions are $15 for 4 issues (Single copies postpaid are $5 for #1)
Checks or Money-orders in U.S. funds to:
   The Lumen Foundation
   P.O. Box 14217,
   San Francisco, CA 94114 USA
      Please forgive the plug, but it seemed particularly germane to the
discussion...
    Cheers,  Jay Kinney
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