Rocket-structure.5.ooooo

[Terrance]

The Rocket with a capital R, is now the Logos. It is the
ultimate rationale and the argument itself. It is like a
mirror too. It is a reflection
of the connectedness (in the positive sense of paranoid)  of
the cosmos. So if kabbalists  can interpret it correctly
they will understand the purpose, the rational, source of
power that moves the stars, the very mystery of the All, the
power and the mystery of creation, the Word incarnate. They 
will know the objective of or the purpose towards which
history is on the move. So kinda like a corruption of the 
Torah, the Rocket both sets forth the objective and is the
objective of the quest.   

The rocket is an alternative to the natural process, it is
pornographic, a surrogate system that replaces cyclical
nature with irreversible artifice. It is Enzian,  who
discovers
that "the Rocket was an entire system won, away
from the feminine darkness, held against the
entropies of lovable but scatterbrained Mother Nature"
[GR.324]. 

 "Weissmann brought him to Europe and he made a discovery
there: 

"a discovery that love, among these men, once past the
simple feel and orgasming of it, 
had to do with masculine technologies, with contracts, with
winning and losing. Demanded in his own case that he enter
the service of the Rocket...."  

TRP's "Feminine Nature" carries the great American tradition
of the  "feminine" Earth. 

She is "scatterbrained" because she is
progenitive and is permeated by randomness, qualities
celebrated by GR because they are not only unacceptable but
transgressive to those whose "religion" (Weissmann/Blicero
being the gnostic high priest and god of this cult) is the
consciously  sterile Discipline of Control and Service to
the Rocket. The
text makes explicit, that the  desire of the Cartel
scientist/priests is to defeat nature's entropies. They
practice and preach absolutism, "absolute power," their
gnosis is of a
determinism that seeks a "divine" stasis beyond entropy. 

So while  particular rockets are ultimately defeated by
gravity, or by the humor, irony, the faustian arrogance that
TRP ridicules, THE ROCKET symbolizes
a constant metaphysical rebellion against such natural
defeat. 


So if we look at the Zone-Hereros, we find one of the groups
that have identified the Rocket as both "Destiny" and
"Torah." They have a sacred mission,  they
are the Kabbalists or the scholar-magicians of the Zone"
[GR. 520]. 

What they do is to  explicate to exhaustion its
"symmetries" and its "latencies." Why? Well, the  goal of
this task is to attain the Holy Center.


For Enzian, this holy center "will never need a design
change. Time, as it is known to the other nations will
wither away inside of this new one. The Erdschweinhohle will
not be bound, like the Rocket, to time. The people will find
the Center again, the Center without time, the journey
without hysteresis, where every departure
is a return to the same place, the only place...." [GR.319]. 

As Weisenburger and others have noted (see pages 164-65 ) 
both the North and the
Moon have characteristics of this Center for the
tribe and the Zone-Hereros believe that firing the
Rocket targeted to these  will lead them back into this
perfect, timeless center or realm. 

So, this is very sad stuff, (the story of the hare and the
moon will of course return at GR.730.4-6) in fact like all
the cultures/religions of GR it is very, very sad stuff,
lost and perverted.   
How poignant indeed is the white scholar's reading of Rilke
to the Herero boy, here we find the same, a tortured
conflation of tribal myth and the white Rocket technology,
fatal contact with the white man. In GR this history
functions as nothing less than a gnostic perversion of the
original Herero religion. That religion
with its own ideas about the North and the Moon was
Earth-centered. TRP gives us a beautiful and poignant
description of the woman literally planted in the aardvark
hole (compare the aardvark with the pigs and other animals
in the text). Here we see that in the Herero tradition the
Earth has the fecund regenerative powers to  redeem the
preterite.


The Erdschweinhohle is a sacred womb, the woman is quite
literally "in touch with Earth's gift for genesis."
Beautiful, right? This woman in the womb of the earth brings
together all of the fecund powers which go  flooding
"through every gate" of her body [GR.316]. This was of
course before the rocket, when ceremonies and rituals of
renewal were beautifully structured  and whole and defined
by their opposites, the  antithesis inherent in the Herero
concept of the
netherworld--the moon. 


"The moon is  a fallen world in which preterition is the
result of a false message from the moon, and a paradisal
netherworld where the tree of life ( a fig tree! btw,) grows
and makes its power partially and sporadically available to
preterite humanity. [See Eddins GP.139].  

This lunar netherworld can be entered, however, only after
death, with the result that everyday life retains the
fertilizing
tension of the Earth system.

P's religion was once Catholic, it was surely a blessing.