GR Father Rapier's Sermon

s~Z keithsz at concentric.net
Mon Apr 21 17:34:36 CDT 2003


>>>I agree that Father Rapier isn't working for "Them" or "The System".<<<

He doesn't want to be, but so long as he is Us and They are them he is
trapped in the dualism which sustains Them. As much as he tries to preach
his way out of it, Fr. Two-Edged Sword can't get past the dualism in which
he is doomed. He can see the obstacles to return, but he still ties renewal
to the death of Them and some dialectic operating in History. The Cycle.
Uroboros. The answers my friend are blowing in the "wind" a 'convention' to
express what sets them crosses to spinnin' and them opposites to unitin.'




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