GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 22 09:24:07 CDT 2003


David Morris wrote:
> 
> I strongly disagree with this last sentence, although I hear it repeated here
> from time to time.  It DOES parse, and it was meant to parse.  I don't mean the
> book as a whole, but individual sections, like this Hell section, are
> consistent and nailable, even in the details.  Not that you have to...

NOt that you have to, but how about that Heresy Question? 

"Others see a Gnostic or Cathar symbol for the Church of Rome, and this
is generalized to mean any System that cannot tolerate heresy: a system
which by its nature, must sooner or later fall. We know by now that it
is also the Rocket." 

Lots of Heresy questions in this big book, but this one, it seems to me,
is the one being debated in the episode under consideration.



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