Do you reject Satin and all it's silkiness

[Joachim de Fiore]

Dave with this little light of mine form the Easter candle. 

The Pynchene Creed?  Feel like I'm renewing those
baptismal vows here ...


"To affirm their reality is to affirm Return." 

			--Father Rapier, GR

Now, the word Return is a tricky one in GR. Here (GR.539) we
are told that Rapier is preaching against Return in the
sense that de Chardin wrote against it. 

"Life itself-Life is Irreversible." --de Chardin

and

"This is not a return to primitive and undifferentiated
cultural forms..." -de Chardin

"In the passage of time a state of collective consciousness
has been progressively evolved which is inherited by each
succeeding generation of conscious individuals, and to which
each generation adds something." 

This is part of his idea that social heredity is  an
evolving progress and Mankind cannot go back or Return to
his primitive and undifferentiated cultural form since he is
progressing, by divine purpose, towards a wholeness of human
collective consciousness united with Christ--de Chardin's
Christian Humanism. 

"We cannot recapture the animal security of instinct."


"When it has passed beyond what we called the beginning of
its 'critical point of socialization' the mass of Mankind,
let this be my conclusion, will penetrate for the first time
into the environment which is biologically requisite for the
wholeness of its task." 

Thr Bad Priest: 

 The syncretic, dualistic religious philosophy taught by the
Persian prophet Manes, combining elements of Zoroastrian,
Christian, and Gnostic thought and opposed by the imperial
Roman government, Neo-Platonist philosophers, and orthodox
Christians. 2. A dualistic philosophy dividing the world
between good and evil principles or regarding matter as
intrinsically evil and mind as intrinsically good.

She teaches the boys to be rubies and the girls to be
sterile, tells Elana to abort Paola. Why? Because she the
church stripped of every last fertility cult. And in its
place, a dynamo, Henry. And National Socialism?