MDMD(4) - Questions - "Geometry" "Darkness"

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

> 106-27    "...all being reduced to Geometry and optical Illusion, even
> what is waiting there all around, what is never to be nam'd directly."
> What is this?  The sea?  God?

I think it's the Ocean that's "never to be nam'd directly"--while you are
making port that is, presumably due to the fear that naming a possibly
malevolent force may give it power over you.  The Ocean is named in the
following paragraph, once M&D are safely on shore.

> 107.7 `In the Astrology of this island, the Sun must be reckoned of
> less importance than Darkness incorporated as some integral,
> anti-luminary
> object with its own motions , positions and aspects,-- Black Sheep of
> the family of Planets, neither to be sacrificed to Hades nor sp oken of
> by Name. . . .' someone want to relate this to the Rev^d's cosmological
> metaphor? or otherwise m ake sense of itchiness?  (AD)
> 
> 107-10    "Sun...Black sheep of the family of Planets, neither to be
> sacrificed to Hades nor spoken of by Name...."  Another unnamed or the
> same.  Is the sun that which is never to be nam'd directly?  Don't make
> sense...

It's not the Sun but "Darkness incorporated" or made corporeal into the
"Black Sheep of the family of Planets" that is not to be "spoken of by
Name."

As to Andrew's question, I can only make the obvious guess that as
Darkness could be considered the opposite of Light or the Sun, which often
represents God, therefore the Darkness of the Black Sheep Planet could
represent to the Rev'd the opposite force, the Devil or what have you,
competing with God for our attention.  I don't know no itchiness.

	Steve Maas