GRGR(11): More on Webley

Cjhurtt6 at aol.com Cjhurtt6 at aol.com
Tue Oct 5 19:52:36 CDT 1999


In a message dated 10/5/99 4:40:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Lycidas at worldnet.att.net writes:

<< 
 We follow Pointy on one level. Pointy is in one sense
 Richard III--a dog in need of money and a Lab/WAR. >>
and a labrador. sorry couldn't help it.


<< The rituals in the seventh
 cell (not sure of the allusion here, revelations?) involves
 eating shit and golden cocktails and "when the [cane] cums
 down." He eats the shit of the Mistress of Death--a ritual
 of oneness with his fallen comrades. He drinks the piss in
 remembrance of Passchendael. He is caned in the S/M ritual
 to purify. >>
 according to weisenburger this is a "satirical inversion of the Kabbalistic 
acsent to the Merkabah." each of the seven cells are paradies of the seven 
antechambers one must pass through.
1. hasid devotion    white visitation the needle/addiction
2. tahore pure          w.v.   severin and depravity
3.yashar sincerity     w.v.   scientific objectivity
4.tanim   being wholly with god      w.v. a skull in a drawer.
and so forth. until he is standing in servility before domina nocturna 
instead of erect before God.
the above is paraphrased(hopefully clearly) from weisenburgers gr companion.



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