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But, now, the One is being overthrown by these new gods, which includes the prismatic gods. It’s not the case that the One was actually a prismatic god; even if that’s how it may begin to appear to us, now or in future, we must respect the phenomenon as it appears, which as historical, always also involves how it appeared. The One was the One; this isn’t a trick.

On the other hand, the stranger god is a trickster god: the hat appears in many colours and we’re tricked into holding on to one.

The prismatic god has an effect similar to that of the One, yet, they’re not the One. But they help us see that the One was always a particularized, localized god.

The One is still here; there are many who still align with it.

– But, perhaps, just maybe, we only act as though the One were here. — Perhaps, just maybe, we can dare to begin to declare the event that is the death of the One.