Bitz of lies

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 24 09:44:08 CDT 2002


>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>To Mr. L,   these souls with big memories have knowledge of things eternal 
>and true. These truths, so Mr. L holds, are necessary truths. They are in 
>fact, nothing less than God in thought and action.
>[...]
>After reading V. and GR, one might conclude that P did not get his notion 
>of the light from L.
>[...]
>With science, we get a secularization that splits man off, alienates him. 
>He tries to find a away out of the dark anti-Patonic cave. In the process 
>he fragments the light in the Gnostic sense.
>[...]
>Here in the novel M&D, as in V., as in GR, there is something about German 
>Christianity that is opposed to the Soul in the Stone (to put it into GR's 
>context).  Or, as in V., where it is most apparent,  the Catholic fecundity 
>of Mary in the womb of rock will be blasted away by Germany's bombings. 
>These are more historical and clearly more religious than scientific.
>
>In Mr. L, if I'm not mistaken, the soul is a mirror reflecting the 
>Divinity.  The divinity is the…...

..."knowlege of things eternal and true" (see above).  Or, in other words, 
the re-integrated light, the union of all things (a very Eastern concept and 
goal).

Very nice post, again, Terrance (but somewhat dificult to follow).  I 
believe you are really on to something...

David Morris

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