2003-12-15 00:40:00
John C writes:
I still have questions about this. I'll try to boil it down as simply as I can.
JJ's answer to my question about facing the dweller:
When the initiate returns and passes through an initiation as traumatic as the third the ferociousness does not diminish. Often it gets worse. The only difference is the strength and resolve of the initiate increases making the chances of success greater each time the dweller is faced.
The dweller, however, reincarnates with the initiate and may change its tactics, or the Dark Brothers may control the Dweller in a new attempt to defeat the initiate. Sometimes they are successful for a time, but the third degree initiate (and above) will usually prevail in the end.
John:
But I thought you said that when it does battle, the dweller is "fighting for its life". If the initiate succeeds in "killing it" at the third initiation in one lifetime, how could it possibly come back with renewed strength in the next lifetime? I must not be getting something here because the more I think about this, the more confused I get.
JJ:
No life dies into complete extinction, but moves from one place to another.
When a human dies, he does not go extinct, but merely leaves his physical body.
When the Dweller dies its thought form, sustained by the initiate, is dispersed so it has no dwelling place.
But when the initiate is reborn and relives (in digest form) all the evolution of his past lives a new thought form for the Dweller is created that must again be dispersed.
The Dweller does not get more powerful in each life of the initiate, but it does get more cunning. Whereas the initiate may overcome him quickly in one life he may be tricked into a time consuming battle in another.
The Dweller itself is a life form which is evolving and will reincarnate in various forms until it eventually becomes a human - in another solar system.
Just as we are the shadow of our souls, so is the Dweller our shadow.
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