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Lord of the Mysteries Discussion Thread

Its kinda funny how Mysticism and more esoteric / metaphysical material scales way higher then random mentions of dimension or universe busting (or some verses using quantum science or dimension theories)

Most people wouldn't understand how crazy the former is...
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I understand, in order to counter a godhood's MM3, you need to transcend dualism or smt. Doesn't that imply that to counter MM3, you need to possess PP3? Ngl, I read the Ruphas vs Klein thread, and either I'm too dumb or my English isn't good enough to understand
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I understand, in order to counter a godhood's MM3, you need to transcend dualism or smt. Doesn't that imply that to counter MM3, you need to possess PP3? Ngl, I read the Ruphas vs Klein thread, and either I'm too dumb or my English isn't good enough to understand
You need to transcend the distinction between subject and object/thinker and thought. Since at the level of Symbolism, Knowledge is Being. Thus they can only be apprehended via experience and not lesser things like sensory perception.

And no, it has nothing to do with PP3.
 
You need to transcend the distinction between subject and object/thinker and thought. Since at the level of Symbolism, Knowledge is Being. Thus they can only be apprehended via experience and not lesser things like sensory perception.

And no, it has nothing to do with PP3.
So... you mean something like the indivisibility of the mind, right? If that's the case, I think I'm starting to get it
 
So... you mean something like the indivisibility of the mind, right? If that's the case, I think I'm starting to get it
The issue is that Symbolism and the things they ground are not univocal, which is why Symbolism is explicitly [indescribable]. That is to say, ā€œCalamityā€ and the ā€œSymbol of Calamityā€ aren’t spoken of the same. Since, as said before, at the level of Symbolism, it’s knowledge and it’s existence become one (which is why Symbols are said to be ā€œtruthā€, ā€œmeaningā€ and ā€œprimordial revelationsā€), so the ā€œknowledge of Calamityā€ and the ā€œexistence of Calamityā€ are numerically identical at that level, and thus non-dual.

As such, the knowledge of Symbolism can only be attained by the existence of Symbolism, which is why there’s a ā€œunificationā€ or ā€œexperienceā€ of them, as you, in a sense, ā€œexistā€ as them. To attempt to comprehend them any other way—say, by discourse or sense for example—would preclude the unity of the Symbols’ Intellection and of it’s Being, causing a division between Subject (thinker) and Object (thought), and dualizing the whole process. But as seen, this would cause the Symbol to become ineffable, since this mode of apprehension can never attempt to attain it.

To go back to the earlier example, you are capable of speaking and even sensually perceiving ā€œCalamityā€, yet, as seen above, neither of those apply to the ā€œSymbol of Calamityā€ which makes them not univocal in nature.
 
As such, the knowledge of Symbolism can only be attained by the existence of Symbolism, which is why there’s a ā€œunificationā€ or ā€œexperienceā€ of them, as you, in a sense, ā€œexistā€ as them. To attempt to comprehend them any other way—say, by discourse or sense for example—would preclude the unity of the Symbols’ Intellection and of it’s Being, causing a division between Subject (thinker) and Object (thought), and dualizing the whole process. But as seen, this would cause the Symbol to become ineffable, since this mode of apprehension can never attempt to attain it.
Okay, this shit is really traumatizing me 😭 But I get the gist of it now.
Btw, is it enough to simply have metaphysical immunity to madness to resist this, or is that insufficient due to accompanying informational, conceptual, or whatever manipulations? Or is this MM3 more like a ā€œha ha, I winā€ button, and the only way to resist it is by possessing a special undifferentiated mechanism of thought? Nonexistent Physiology should help too, tho
 
Btw, is it enough to simply have metaphysical immunity to madness to resist this
This is a pretty good question. I guess, strictly speaking, it just depends on what exactly ā€œmadnessā€ entails here. If it’s a sort of delusional state posterior to having you mind shattered, then you’re probably immune. But if you’re talking about the act of the mind itself shattering without any derivative effects, then probably not.

Though, if we’re speaking about the LOM setting itself, I’d argue that immunity to madness isn’t possible at all.

Well firstly because in genuine (Neo)Platonism, which holds the same intellectual principles seen in LOM, there’s no ā€œmind shatteringā€ when you try to perceive Platonic Forms via sense. You just… don’t perceive them and that’s that. So it holds the ineffability but not the MM3 stuff. Meaning that part is just a mechanic of the setting itself.

And secondly, because Madness in LOM is strictly identified with the Original Creator and the underlying essence of the universe itself, rather than with any particular Great Old One/Symbol. Because in LOM, madness is caused by separation and convergence, or in other words, Chaos. So to be immune to it (in-verse speaking at least), you would literally have to be the Godhead of the verse, i.e the very essence of existence.
 
Wallahi i will pay staff to disagree FRA and throw Tensura fandom to debunk H1-A+ if Nova doesn't accept atoms supremacy
 
technically no cuz zhou mingrou or watever his name is was a human n so hes human level. and its not even the same human level as umineko
You said ā€œverseā€ not ā€œzhou mingruiā€. At the time of the previous civilization, all Outer Deities were at their full power and 6-Sefirot OC was still sleeping below Earth. Which makes it pretty quantifiably stronger than the current state of the LOM verse.
 
isekai level so debunked below average writing
only reverse isekais qualify for trueadampeakwritingmaxxing.

whats a high tier isekai to a low tier reverse isekai. nothing

You said ā€œverseā€ not ā€œzhou mingruiā€. At the time of the previous civilization, all Outer Deities were at their full power and 6-Sefirot OC was still sleeping below Earth. Which makes it pretty quantifiably stronger than the current state of the LOM verse.
blah blah, chinese guy so he scales to the whole verse
 
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