Re GR square brackets

[Terrance]

We're trying to discuss it. OK? The brackets are very important. 
Now, since this overlaps our body/blood transubstantiation discussion
(MDMD), 
I think it's worth looking at. I've studied the passage in some detail.
I've looked up every allusion. I've read several critical studies that
take up this cryptic passage. But again, I'm not sure what the Hell is
going on in this very difficult and cryptic passage. It's possible that
the passage doesn't make any sense at all. 
It's possible that it is a private message. I don't know.  

jbor, in calling attention to the brackets has done us a big favor. He's
also mentioned the Kabbalist spokesman Steve Edelmann (753.8). 

Now, the entire passage is couched in religious language. 


There is one Universal Church of the faithful, outside of which there is
absolutely
no salvation. In which there is the same priest and sacrifice, Jesus
Christ, whose
body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under
the forms of
bread and wine; the bread being changed (transubstantiation) by divine
power into
the body, and the wine into the blood, so that to realize the mystery of
unity we
may receive of Him what He has received of us. And this sacrament no one
can
effect except the priest who has been duly ordained in accordance with
the keys of
the Church, which Jesus Christ Himself gave to the Apostles and their
successors. 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lat4-select.html

>From Mark and Matthew we get eat my body and drink my blood. From Luke
we get the addition of "Do this in Remembrance of me." John comes along
much later but the point is this is a profound utterance. I included the
verses from Genesis about blood. The idea that a Jew named Jesus would
tell men to drink his blood is profoundly heretical. 

I'm just scratching the surface here, but it was St. Paul, a Hellenistic
Jew, taking the Remembrance statement from Luke,  who settled the issue
for the church. This may seem all very tangential, but it's not. I'd
need to write a book to explain the half of how important remembrance
and host and St. Paul are to Pynchon. Anyway, we get Paul and the Latin
mass. The Latin, with its language gives us the HOST or consecrated
Eucharist. Host means hostia, the sacrificial victim. Priests would
break the host in four parts representing the parts of Jesus, in fact, 
at one point in the 6th century some churches broke bread shaped like
jesus on the cross. Theologians argued about transubstantiation for
along time. They came up with all sorts of crazy and ingenious arguments
to explain how bread and wine became the body and blood of their Lord. 

To the blood and the grail (plastic, logos, magic Word)  the horn of
plenty, Romance, Transubstantiation wars, the murder of the Jews.... 

Feel free to add anything at all Barb. 

Gotta go 





"barbara100 at jps.net" wrote:
> 
> In all of that brilliance, all you can fucking think to say is something about the square brackets?!!!!