MDMD: What is this junk?

[Terrance]

Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote:
> 
> Except that he exists within all of us. He is intellect, reason, wisdom
> (Sophia being the mom). This spark of divinity is what unites us with
> the divine.

In the Gnostic system. And in Pynchon's Gnostic worlds.  

But this is not to be confused with grace (as in Dixon/Fox) or with the
Eastern religious experiences Wicks longs for or Christ or the
love/Gravity of his unpublished sermon.
 


> 
> However, this is exactly what Pynchon sets himself against so often,
> hubris, pure intellect, ratiocination. Pynchon's father god may be
> a blind alley, or death.

His Gnostic god is exactly that. 

Kinda like Blake's Nobodaddy.