Rocket(s) & Blasphemy.3

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

The Herero conjunction of netherworld and moon as Holy
Center is parodied by the doctrines of other Rocket cultists
in the novel. 

Weisenburger says that TRP's accuracy (not that accuracy is
exactly what we want to confirm) on these Kabbalistics
"confirms that Scholem's Major Trends was his source in
these matters." On page 753 we have a count down.   There
are ten stages of the inner world through which God
descends-His revelation in the Shekinah. This ties back to
Greta, but here we get Fritz Lang's UFA film Die Frau im
Mond and the count down moves from film to life as film.  

So Steve Edelman, the Kabbalistic spokesman says, The Tree
of Life itself was brought into being, that is the Tree
rooted at the Bodenplatte where the dead abide, was brought
into existence by "the Great Firing." Talk about blasphemy.
The Ten Sephiroth of the Tree (see Major Trends page 214 for
a diagram) are associated with the Rocket countdown, you
count down but the Rocket goes up. The Rocket countdown
"actually conceals the Tree of Life." So once again,  the
sacred guarantor of Return has been co-opted by
technological mysticism as part of a one-way process
designed to thwart the renewal of life. Now that Captain
Blicero, isn't he the guy that wants to leave "this cycle of
infection and death"?  Isn't he the guy that imagines the
moon once reached by the Rocket will become  "our new
Deathkingdom", a vacuous sphere inhabited by men. And what
will Man be then? He will be reduced to little more than
"black and white film-images." And what of their dreams? Why
they will be dreaming not of warmth and communion but of
perpetual separation from "loved ones." How they will
cherish their "loneliness."  Can't you imagine such "sterile
grace"??  It is an Absolutely unnatural Ideal. And it is a
Gnostic ideal-anti-Earth, anti-permanence and that Return is
a gnostic/Word path: "There are ways of getting back, but so
complicated, so at the mercy of language.