GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Since we disagree so entirely here, we will have to wait
till someday. In the mean time I'll continue to toss Eddins
in here. Does Cowart cite Voegelin? Difficult stuff.
Difficult.

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
> 
> Terrance schrieb:
> 
> > [- quotating me on Weissmann:] Are his primary concerns really "ethnic
> > cleanness" & the
> > German world
> > domination?
> 
> > [- & answering:] NO, this is not what I mean at all. I'm talking about his
> > Flame--the Oven--The Rocket. His desire to transform earth
> > into a Kingdom of Death, to transform life and death and the
> > natural cycle through domination with artifice and stasis.
> 
>   But that's - cum grano salis - a somehow classic approach of Black Gnosticism.
>   In Scholem's terminology it would probably be called "religious nihilism". The
>   "Nazi dream" is only the "boundary object", by which Blicero keeps himself
>   socially integrated while kicking his own romantic shit.
> 
>   KFL ///::: PS: One day, when I've got more time, we've got to talk about
>   Eddins' uncritical use of the Gnosis conception of Voegelin. It's, at the same
>   time, too wide (- for Voegelin everything modern is "gnostic": modernity as
>   such, German idealism, all kinds of totalitarianism & many other things ...)
>   and too narrow (- overlaying the spiritual dimension totally with politics). I
>   assume Cowart's characterization of Pynchon as an "apologet of balance", too,
>   comes from reading too much Voegelin ...
> 
> > "As  the Rocket grows towards its working shape and
> > fullness, so does he [Enzian] evolve, himself, into a new
> > configuration
What Enzian wants to create will have no
> > history. It will never need a design change. Time, as time
> > is known to other nations, will wither away inside this new
> > one. The people will fill the Center again, the Center
> > without time, the journey without hysterisis, where every
> > departure is a return to the same place, the only place
. He
> > has thus himself found a strange reapproachment with the
> > Empty Ones: in particular with Josef Ombindi of Hanover. The
> > Eternal Center can easily be seen as the Final Zero. Names
> > and methods vary but the movement towards stillness is the
> > same. "   GR.318-319
> >
> > It embraces all the Deviations in one single
> > act---Homosexuality, Sadism, masochism, Onanism,
> > Necrophilia, bestiality, pedophila, lesbianism, coprophilia
> > and urolagnia, fetishism.
> >
> > "Enzian is, in some way, being  SOLD ON SUICIDE
" GR.320
> >
> > But the stillness is NOT the same. This stillness is part of
> > the original Herero perception that gave a common locus of
> > origin to both creation and death. Sort of like  the Garden
> > of Eden. One can not go there, for this would betray the
> > sacred role of preterition in the name of the Center without
> > time. Pynchon layers this Zero, this gnostic Zero, compiling
> > myths, Kabalistic myths, Herero myth, and so on and in the
> > current GRGR discussion Pynchon gives the gnostic Zero
> > dramatic immediacy, we go into tunnels of the Mittlewerke,
> > where Dora's prisoners were emptied of all human dignity,
> > there in that terrible excavation that emptied the animated
> > soul of Nature and assembled the inanimate horror of the
> > Rocket.
> >
> > "All right. But Etzel Olsch's genius was to fatally
> > receptive to imagery associated with the Rocket
.the double
> > integral has a different meaning
.The Rocket was on its own.
> > That is one meaning of the shape of the tunnels down here in
> > the Mittelwerke. Another may be the ancient rune that stands
> > for the yew tree, or death. The double integral stood in
> > Etzel Olsch's subconscious for the method of finding hidden
> > centers, inertias unknown
."     GR.301-302
> >
> > The Brennschluss point, the anti-life symbols brought
> > together here, using a bit of poetic license to bend the yew
> > tree and the ancient rune, the Nazi architecture to the
> > Zero, the hidden centers, the inertias unknown.
> > "And  what is the specific shape whose center of gravity is
> > the Brennschluss Point?"
> >
> > The Parabola.
> >
> > TBC