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[ononion]

Question: What is the difference between Shekhina, who is the personification of Malchut, Gaia, who is the personification of the Earth, and Mother Nature, who is the personification all natural forces. Or are these all philosophically equivalent, but with different masks?

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[bradhicks]

Syncreticism makes my teeth itch. If they say that they're different people, why don't we take their word for it?

[ononion]

The question is not one of syncretism, but rather, philosophical equivalency.

The real question is not if I can moosh them into one thing, but rather, if I started out as a Jew who believed in a mostly uninvolved Male principle and an Imminent female principle, and a few lesser beings in between, but my belief was rational rather than dogmatic, would a conversion from Judaism to a devote of Gaia render me in violation of my philosophical beliefs?

[ononion]

Although, on a related note, the idea that there are twelve different sun gods who are all racing to make the sun rise seems a clouge. There's one sun, one force of inertia, one force of gravity, and twelve different human conception of the process.

Isn't it more useful, from a magician's standpoint, to understand the underlying principle, rather than to get caught up in various cultures' conceptions of things without drawing any solid conclusions about the way reality actually works?