3.21
Charges leap in various ways: uniquely, as intensities; globally, as prismatic gods. They can also leap across the sky of our prismatic god’s horizon. I’ve written of the Greek gods described by Otto (§2.21); these fit into my quasi-typology of gods.
Global, Homeric-style gods exist within the prismatic god’s realm. If the prismatic god seems to create a sphere (§3.3), this type of god seems to fill it all the way. Filling it, the world takes on a given colour. As distinct from prismatic gods, I call these spectrum gods.
An intensity become global becomes or leads to a spectrum and not a prismatic god when the emphasis is more on how the god fills up the world, and not on how it offers a different world: it colours the world.
When the charge of an intensity offers a glimpse of how it can become global (i.e., as spectrum or prismatic), then we’ve encountered what I’ve called a wisp of world.
— A charge is itself like a metaphor, for it gathers and leaps across, clearing the air.
— In what sense is this whole layer like a metaphor?
It’s like a depth charge. Differentials can be explosive. They can be revelatory.