[EVA] Religious iconism

[Gwern Branwen]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 7:02 AM, R_J_N <r_j_n at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> I'm 300+ posts behind in reading this ML's re-awakening!
>
> So far I have not seen mention of too very Catholic iconistic images.
>
> 1st is the stigmata that appears on Shinji's palms as 01 is "crucified" in
> EoE.
>
> The other is a phrase possibly not so obvious. "Human Instrumentality".
> This is the belief (shared by most Christian denominations), but preached
> most rigidly by RCs, that souls can only be saved through mankind continuing
> Divine work to saved souls that would otherwise be damned. Of course in
> Christian faith, its is carried out through prayer, humane acts etc.
>
> But in Eva, the saving of souls, as a singularity, to reform the 18th angel,
> is what SEELE is about, & Gendou.
>
> Yui/Rei/Lilith's refusal to let Gendou follow Rei III into Lilith, &
> re-unite with Yui seems to me in a way, an Eva parallel to Moses being
> denied entry into the promised land by Jehovah.
> RJN

Wasn't HI borrowed from Cordwainer Smith? He was an odd Christian, to
be sure, but his HI didn't seem to be religious at all...

>     "This was all the business of the Instrumentality. The Instrumentality had the perpetual slogan 'Watch, but do not govern; stop war, but do not wage it; protect, but do not control; and first, survive!'"

-- 
gwern