Completion of theurgical virtue

Three or more processes that help us improve are offered in this world: immersion, which is employed by the role-playing gaming environment and pertains to y-axis or interplanetary reality; ascension, which is largely Vedic in origin and goal, and pertains to z-axis or stellar reality; and completion, which is the Christian authority that is motivational governance over the basic justification of one’s own three-dimensional universe, but we can call it w-axis (from the fourth dimension) if we like. The distinction of truer religion from folklore has a lot to do with the quality of our work with these processes, at least if we have found ourselves and our lives limited by meager existence within places less satisfying and functional than we feel we should be living up to or contributing to the creation of. Many of us have the designs of immersion already; if we are mere mortals, then we have some hope of transcending mortality, where we may have many of the weaknesses associated with mortality, but we have at least maintained better than demonic existence, such as would require stronger processing just to regain solid ground again with what truly salvatory opportunity is.

If we are, indeed, merely mortal, then the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game gives us an exemplar to consider: Forgotten Realms’ “ascended” god Torm, who might be a type of backwards but is free from the demonic perversion that often haunts the mortal world. Bruce R. Cordell’s The Strange has now given us a milder type of exemplar (in that his authority is virtual rather than realistic, and his limitations are judgeable from first level rather than as necessarily from second level): Jason Cole. Jason Cole, “The Betrayer,” is a lonely man who has his own need for rectification staring him right in the face, whereas Torm, “The Loyal Fury,” is given a sense of justice to work with, and so has to be confronted by second level, as was shown in his fight with Bane, a formidable character whose wickedness asks judgment but whose designs conceal a type of sanctification and thereby deadliness if confronted carelessly.