Subcreation and image [was: RE: Betreft: Re: Steg's wonderful.sig (and a question)]

FFlores wrote:

> Coming back to subcreation, it's interesting to see that in
> Christian orthodoxy, as Lucifer is himself a creation of God,
> he can't create himself -- but why can't he *sub*create?
Tolkien goes so far as to say that he sometimes wonders whether
some elements of the Primary World are in fact "tolerated
subcreational counterfeits".  Skating on the thin edge of
Manichaeanism.

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Den er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
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