Osmosis & P's Gnostic Cosmoses

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 19 10:34:06 CST 2000



Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> > >
> > >
> > >              "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.
> > >
> >                 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.
> 
> You are saying, I take it, that the statement marked 1 is not true--rather than that
> it is not true that the statement marked 1 in not true.        (as the voice of the
> devil sez)
>


Energy is delight because God is Love and His basic Ethic is
the Forgiveness of Sins, O' God thou art Not an Avenger.
God's Mercy and Love is so Boundless, so Unconditional that 
We need even Atone for Our Energies and Sins. Following
Milton, "make a Hell of Heaven or a Heaven of Hell", in
Blake Hell is Satan's creation, where Mercy and Love are Not
present, what Dante calls DIS, but Blake  says there is NO
Hell, as in Dante, but that, as in Hamlet, thinking make it
so, turning one's back or mind, negating the Poetic Genius,
turning away  from the Divine Vision, which is God. In The
Marriage, the fires of Hell,  are the flames of inspiration,
even the means of Salvation, Milton and Blake too, all True
poets, even Jesus (Proverbs are for Paranoids and parables
are for children) are of the Devil's party, although, as
with Milton, without knowing it. Of course, Eddins is right
on to this when he says that, Pynchon, like Milton, is of
the devil's part without knowing it. He's talking about P's
great Satan, Blicero.



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