MDMD Inverted Star & Freemasons

[Terrance]

"To find in the blazing star of five points an illusion to divine
providence is fanciful - and to make it commemorative of the star that
is said to have guided the Magi is to give it a comparatively modern
meaning., Originally it represented Sirius, or the dog star, the
forerunner of the
inundation of the Nile. Then it became the image of Horus, the son of
Osiris, himself symbolized by the sun, the author of the seasons and the
god of time; Son of Isis, who was the universal nature, himself the
primitive matter, inexhaustible source of Life spark of un created fire,
universal seed of all beings. It was Hermes also, the Master of
Learning, whose name in Greek is that of the God Mercury. It became the
potent and sacred sign or character of the Magi, the Pentalpha, and is
steady radiance amid the weltering elements of good and evil of nations,
after the storms of change and tumult."

		--Albert Pike, Morals & Dogma 

But in M&D the inverted star symbolizes evil, murder, slavery, Indian
massacres, the devil, the white horseman (not Jesus or  Mohammed) but
Death. 
The Pentagram is universally known as the sign of the devil. 
The star with two points upward is also called the 'goat of mendes',
because the inverted star is the same shape as a goat's head. When the
upright
star turns and the upper point falls to the bottom, it signifies the
fall of the
Morning Star. So, the fragment form Sappho is quite apt. 

Pynchon has also inverted the Pentateuch in these chapters. 

Delillo and Patriotism 	

http://www.uoregon.edu/~ucurrent/uc7/7-pin.html

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/05/24/pablo/index2.html