Osmosis & P's Gnostic Cosmoses

[Mark David Tristan Brenchley]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:

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> 
> Dave Monroe schrieb:
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> > Do agree that there is no small sympathy for the heretic, gnostic or
> > otherwise, if not necessarily the devil, throughout that Pynchonian
> > oeuvre...
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>              "t h e   v o i c e   o f   t h e   d e v i l
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>     all bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following errors:
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>      1. that man has two real existing principles viz: a body & a soul.
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		not true this one. Hebrew word for soul=nephesh (NPS),
means soul, breath or better life force. But this is not distinct from the
body. When the body dies so does the life force.
 
>      2. that energy, called evil, is alone from the body, & that reason, called 
>       good, is alone from the soul.
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>      3. that god will torment man in eternity for following his energies.
>
		energy is probably here better understood by will (an
self-animating force)
 
> 
>     but the following contraries to these are true:
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>      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.
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>      2. energy is the only life and is from the body and reason is the bound or 
>       outward circumference of energy.
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>      3. energy is eternal delight."
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> 
>                 --- william blake: the marriage of heaven and hell [1790] --- 
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>  kfl
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> 


Mark