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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 4878376" data-attributes="member: 4303">More random thoughts on divine ranks.I was reading an old post by fusangite about what he calls 'metatext' and it got me thinking about one of the hidden patterns in the campaign: namely, that the overarching cosmologies presented by five different perspectives – Oronthonist, Uediian, Pseudonatural, Oneiric and Cheshnite – can be reconciled in terms of the numerology of divine ranks. When I started detailing deities, I didn't intend this; it kind of just happened: in many ways, I've actively avoided looking for any kind of meta-reality which holds various others. But…Because DvRs have a 'real' meaning within the campaign world – e.g. Gihaahia is recognized as "three times thrice magnified" by Choach – it stands to reason that some enterprising Irrenite familiar with Mostin's ideas would have devised a scheme to describe this. It is couched primarily in numerological terms, and a variety of mystical 'routes' exist within it, as do a number of distinct mystical 'goals:' paths may be ascending, descending; linear or cyclical. Ascending them generally corresponds with apotheosis; descending has connotations of emanation. None of the following is True.DvR1: Divinity. The Union of Infinities. Divinity is paradigm-neutral.DvR2: Bifurcation and division. Oronthon self-emanates. The first impulse of the Adversary. The beginning of the process of dissolution. The multiplication of life begins. DvR2 is also paradigm-neutral.DvR3: Harmony. Accordance with the Divine Will. Associated with Oronthon's scheme ("thrice magnified"). DvR4: Disruption and revolution. (2 x 2) Powerful Bhitis. Explosive and fragmenting energy. Dynamic force applied to reality. DvR5: Manifestation in the world. Great nature spirits: scions of specific tree-ludjas; powerful mountain-ludjas, river or lake-ludjas. DvR6: Reconciliation. (3 x 2) Nehael. Sophist notions of God(dess) in Nature.DvR7: Divine Mysteries. Oronthon's Regents. (The number of Sovereignties. Seven times seven Regents each with 7DvR. Also, 7 x 7 x 7 = number of seraphim in the highest choir.)DvR8: Destruction. (2 x 2 x 2) Great Bhitis. Phenomena associated with Cheshne.DvR9: Perfection. (3 x 3) Associated with Oronthon's Magnification scheme ("three times thrice"); also the Claviger is capable of bestowing this status.DvR10: Fecundity (5 x 2) Specific tree-ludjas (Oak, Yew etc.)DvR11: Imagination. The ClavigerDvR12: Reification (3 x 2 x 2) Eternal elemental forces. Elder elemental deities.DvR13: Occultation. That which is hidden or impenetrable. Those who guard the Veils of Cheshne.DvR14: Revelation (7 x 2) ? DvR15: Sovereignty. (5 x 3) Sovereignties. Harmony x manifestation. Oronthon acts in perfect accordance with his own will. Esoterically, the Adversary is variously considered a 13+2, an 11+4 or a 9+6; he is the only entity described primarily as an additive function.DvR16: Dissolution. (2 x 2 x 2 x 2) Apparitions of Demogorgon. The preconscious destructive urge.DvR17: Impossibility. Pseudodeities.DvR18: Resolution (3 x 3 x 2). The realization of the dialectic.DvR19: Premanifestation. The apprehension of the Urge Primeval within FinitudeDvR20: Genesis. (5 x 2 x 2) Tree, Aeon. But the order of operators is different: Tree is (5 x 2) x 2, and partakes of the nature of 10 (fecundity); Aeon is (2 x 2) x 5, and partakes of the nature of 4 (disruption).Speculative DvRs of Meta-TranscendentalsDerived from the "inverse avatar" notion.22 Dream – Magical node. The Claviger's emanatory point.24 Uedii (Mother of the Elements). The emanatory point of fundamental elemental forces.25 Viridity (5 x 5). Hyperfecundity.26 Cheshne (Beyond the Veils). Emanatory point of the Mistresses of the Veils. Note that she sleeps with the others.27 Sela (3 x 3 x 3).30 Oronthon (Radiant Form). Emanatory point of the Sovereignties.32 Cheshne (Awakened). Emanatory point of the Apparition.32 Demogorgon. Emanatory point of the Apparition.34 Any specific Pseudoinfinity36 Saizhan. Transcendence of the dialectic.40 Hahio (Interwoven Green). Emanatory point of Tree. 40 Oronthon (Consciousness Form). The emanatory point of the Aeons.44 Primordial Dream49 Oronthon (7 x 7). Unknowable.64 Tamasah. Emanatory point of the Demogorgon/Cheshne duality.80 (Unmanifest).</blockquote>

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