The One or All-god on 04/18/2002 04:28 AM CDT
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Lately much debate has come up about the existance of the All-god. Lennon has always maintained his position that the All-god is in esscence a conglomerate of all the aspcects of the 39 immortals. While there is little in the realms that mentions the existance of the All-god, one reference that I read a long time ago, and recently rediscovered seems especially pertinant as this issue has come up more often as of late.

In the book "The Origins of the Realms" it is stated that, "At first was the Void, neither light nor dark, neither full nor empty. Such nothingness as is too dreadful to imagine. Into this Void, came the One who took the Void to wife. From the Void he caused to be conceived offspring, as
the she-serpent carried in its body siblings, but all separate and alone
behind hard shells, only to bring forth living things that are forever
separated and unjoinable. So the One and the Void produced the Planes,
separate realms of world and being divided by irrevocable boundaries of time, space and essential forces.

When she realized that her children were destined by the Father to be ever separate, ever alone and ever full of woe, the Mother Void began to weep. Her tears flowed and flowed, and landing on the Planes, each tear produced a being of great power, born of pure Void. When he saw what his consort had created, the One became enraged, and into each of those eternal beings of pure Void, he imparted some of his own substance, until he had not enough to maintain his own being. With that, he was no more, and the Void, now containing within it a myriad of Planes and Immortals, ceased to exist."

As this reference suggests the immortals that were produced by the mixture of the Void's tears and the One's substance are in fact each a part of him. It is stated that the One and the Void both ceased to exist, at least as seperate entities. From a figurative standpoint therefore each of the 39 aspects is in fact a part of a greater One. Therefore, worship of the aspects, gaining favors from the aspects, and belief in the aspects does not negate the existance of the One. In fact it is required for it...

--Just a Squire
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