Oh, and amidst all that ramble i forgot to mention this:
Inside the egg spaceship in Mercy, the security system on the ship is called Abraxas. Credit to janie_aire for pointing this out on gallifreybase and patches365 for pointing it out in a comment to my meta. The Khaler also reference their Gods a lot. This is important because the Abraxas security system is what seals the central myster of the gunslinger: that is the mystery that the Monster within is self-created and part of us.
Now then. Linking in very very much with your egg ideas, and the idea that all symbols stem from one, and the idea of birth and death rolled into one, the presence of this name is fascinating. Abraxas is a name with gnostic meaning, and the aforementioned people pointed out these quotes from Demian by Herman Hesse - which i haven't read but which apparently makes use of the concept of Abraxas.
"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas."
.. it appears that Abraxas has much deeper significance. We may conceive of the name as that of the godhead whose symbolic task is the uniting of godly and devilish elements.
The wiki page on Abraxas is also very interesting.
He designates Abraxas more distinctly as "the power above all, and First Principle," "the cause and first archetype" of all things
Also, Carl Jung says: That which is spoken by God-the-Sun is life; that which is spoken by the Devil is death; Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word, which is life and death at the same time. Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible.
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Date: 19 Sep 2012 05:59 pm (UTC)Inside the egg spaceship in Mercy, the security system on the ship is called Abraxas. Credit to janie_aire for pointing this out on gallifreybase and patches365 for pointing it out in a comment to my meta. The Khaler also reference their Gods a lot. This is important because the Abraxas security system is what seals the central myster of the gunslinger: that is the mystery that the Monster within is self-created and part of us.
Now then. Linking in very very much with your egg ideas, and the idea that all symbols stem from one, and the idea of birth and death rolled into one, the presence of this name is fascinating. Abraxas is a name with gnostic meaning, and the aforementioned people pointed out these quotes from Demian by Herman Hesse - which i haven't read but which apparently makes use of the concept of Abraxas.
"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas."
.. it appears that Abraxas has much deeper significance. We may conceive of the name as that of the godhead whose symbolic task is the uniting of godly and devilish elements.
The wiki page on Abraxas is also very interesting.
He designates Abraxas more distinctly as "the power above all, and First Principle," "the cause and first archetype" of all things
Also, Carl Jung says:
That which is spoken by God-the-Sun is life; that which is spoken by the Devil is death; Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word, which is life and death at the same time. Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible.