Osmosis & P's Gnostic Cosmoses

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Dave Monroe schrieb:

> Do agree that there is no small sympathy for the heretic, gnostic or
> otherwise, if not necessarily the devil, throughout that Pynchonian
> oeuvre...


             "t h e   v o i c e   o f   t h e   d e v i l

    all bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following errors:

     1. that man has two real existing principles viz: a body & a soul.

     2. that energy, called evil, is alone from the body, & that reason, called 
      good, is alone from the soul.

     3. that god will torment man in eternity for following his energies.


    but the following contraries to these are true:

     1. man has no body distinct from his soul; for that called body is a 
      portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in 
      this age.

     2. energy is the only life and is from the body and reason is the bound or 
      outward circumference of energy.

     3. energy is eternal delight."


                --- william blake: the marriage of heaven and hell [1790] --- 

 kfl