MDDM Ch. 44 gazing into the dark crystal (441-2)

[jbor]

Forgot to add that the scene with Mason and the "Scryer", Jonas Everybeet,
gazing into the "luminous Stone", the crystal of Rose Quartz, recalls the
way that fortune tellers use crystal balls to see into the future. Lots of
language and imagery drawn from the magick arts there too.

For mine, the future that we're being primed to look ahead towards is the
Civil War. Many of the anachronisms seem to be from the mid 19th C.

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on 7/4/02 8:42 AM, jbor at jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> On the next page Dixon reminds Mason that they're "Men of Science":
> 
> To huz must all days run alike, the same number of identical Seconds,
> each proceeding in but one Direction, irreclaimable...? If we would have
> Omens, why, let us recall that the Astronomer's symbol for Friday is
> also that of the planet Venus herself,-- a good enough omen, surely...?"
> (27.20)
> 
> Then Hepsie actually presages what does happen when the Seahorse sets sail. A
> sorceress, she sees into the future. Not a particularly Christian moment, I
> would have thought.