MDMD: What is this junk?

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

This is a nifty link: the Transit of Venus even figures in the writer's
argument. Does anyone know how Masons were recruited in the eighteenth
century?

Mark

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Mark Wright AIA wrote:
> > 
> > Are there any "Gnosticism" enthusiasts in the room?  And didn't
> > Zoroaster spake sommat on t'Topick?
> > I am way out of my depth in the theological stuff, but the line
> > reminded me of the doctrine of the "demiurge", a sort of
> semi-divine
> > employee of God who did the dirty work of putting the whole works
> up
> > and in motion. Pynchon's engineers, in dealing with the matter in
> hand,
> > never seem to get it quite right, initiate awful chains of
> unintended
> > consequences, and generally serve Powers they do not themselves
> > understand. Engineer also has roots in "enginer" -- one who designs
> and
> > builds the engins of war. Such an Enginer might well be Dark.
> > 
> > Mark
> 
> Thanks Mark, I think you are right on.  I'm thinking that 
> Gnosticism, as we find it in the novel V. and in GR, is here in M&D,
> every bit as tricky because of how close these ideas come to the
> christian/Eatern religion Wicks longs for and mourns the loss of
> (both
> his own and the worlds) and to other Pynchon norms.  
> In M&D, I think, Gnosticism is not nearly as important as it is in
> GR.
> More important,
> is Freemasonry. The idea that the measurements, the calculations,
> can't
> be completed by one generation, as if the Dark engineer designed the
> universe to prevent men from calculating in one life span, his
> design,
> to remind them of their preterit Mortality and that they should seek
> to
> measure it nonetheless is, as Otto pointed out and as you point out
> here, Enlightenment thinking and Gnostic. 
> 
> http://members.home.net/rsampson60/mason/geometry.htm


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