"'In the name of Selador...oneness.'" (pp. 460-461)
That name can be changed without changing the message:
"Our names they mean nothing...
"They change throughout time..."
-see Trios.
"'For everything that is life, oneness.'" (p. 461)
No problem with that.
"'...bring down the falsehoods of the Biosophists...'" (ibid.)
No! That is antithetical to the Seladorian big tent/broad church approach especially since "Biosophy" means "Life-wisdom." Does any liturgy include that kind of denunciation? Do Catholics chant:
"...bring down the falsehoods of the Methodists..."?
Some Other Details
The transformation of Earth over several centuries has included the creation of an inland sea in Paraguay. Millions of invisibly small machines monitor and guide the water, the nearby land and the life in and on them. Thus, technology blends with nature.
Village residents are accompanied by pets, including cockatoos, hounds, vividly colored cats and more exotic animals, like Lunarians in Anderson's Harvest Of Stars Tetralogy.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
A Catholic, and most other Christians, would omit as well "oneness," as smacking too much of the pantheist error. God is the infinitely transcendent Other who yet CARES about His creation.
Ad astra! Sean
I think Poul was giving strong hints that the peace of Seladonianism was going to go “the way of all flesh” fairly soon.
Deffo.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree. I noticed how the guides assigned to Nansen and Selim soon came to show feelings of dissatisfaction and discontent with things as they were. Seladorian Earth might not YET have become oppressive or decadent, but it was definitely overripe.
Ad astra! Sean
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