The Quest and the Grail

[Robert Daland]

> his treatment of mysticism is somewhat different. To cut
> > this short: Yes, I believe that GR is anti-Puritan, and I would be
> > interested in your arguments to the contrary, namely that "GR is quite
> > sympathetic to the Puritans." That's news to me. Could you give some

slightly off topic, but I think for most people the ADJECTIVE puritan connotes
moralistioc self-righteousness whereas the NOUN Puritans denotes an oppressed
religious minority who also happened to "invent" the work ethic.


> And where in GR is Jewish mysticism "associated with evil"?

that would probably be in the reading of Weissman's Tarot.. (although I disagree
that a Kabbalistic READING of Weissman associates his evil with jewish mysticism)

> This is another topic, but I will be glad to take it up
> after we are finished with these larger issues. P's source
> is Gershom Scholom and Jewish Mysticism is, as I have
> posted, mixed with other religions, in Pudding and  Katje's
> affair, Greta, and Gottfried.

Anybody's source (if they're only going to have one) for Jewish mysticism should
be Gershom Scholem. He invented the field (as an academic discipline, I mean), and
remains its greatest theoretician.
--R