V.V.(9) Vheissu

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 15 09:33:20 CST 2001


And source of his dread is due to the fact that  Vheissu is
not Paradise, not Eden, not Adam and Eve or Christ and
Virgin but the polar opposite of these, the surrogate, the
usurpation of Paradise, Virgin and Christ and Love is V's
garden. He travels toward the Pole, he needs to get to the
Pole, the place where the "riddle" of the land that the
demiurge forgot,  and not the Mystery,  may be solved, "one
of the only two motionless places on this gyrating world." 


"If Eden was the creation of God, God only knows what evil
created Vheissu." 

It is, as we will read in Mondaugen's Story,  the plexus of
Nazi evil, Brocken (GR.329) that Geli, the good witch, 
stands on in GR. 

In the beginning there was  not the Spirit of God, but the
inanimate, not Logos but annihilation.



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