01-15-2016, 01:09 AM
I think the issue here is that many of those strike-through sections are ones that reveal hints of Ra's own personality and perspective on the universe. Like him saying "our incarnate, as you call it, state" directly suggests he doesn't see things in terms of incarnation. Or I would argue it's actually pretty critical that he clarify that power is a distortion, otherwise it makes it sound like power is some sort of inherent property.
Ra isn't speaking objective truth, just his own highly-informed personal perspective of how the cosmos works. While I agree some of those digressions (like the bit about Egypt) are kinda fluffy, chopping them out risks introducing serious new distortions or inadvertantly ascribing to Ra beliefs he didn't actually share. If anything, I might argue those "as you call it" disclaimers are meant to emphasize how transient and meaningless word-names ultimately are.
Ra isn't speaking objective truth, just his own highly-informed personal perspective of how the cosmos works. While I agree some of those digressions (like the bit about Egypt) are kinda fluffy, chopping them out risks introducing serious new distortions or inadvertantly ascribing to Ra beliefs he didn't actually share. If anything, I might argue those "as you call it" disclaimers are meant to emphasize how transient and meaningless word-names ultimately are.