Eddins on FR

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:
> 
> 
>   >From The Gnostic Pynchon, Dwight Eddins, Indiana University
>   Press, 1990.
>   Pg. 128
>   The cartel aspires to create an absolutely pervasive system
>   of connections, a definitive and inescapable nexus that
>   would usurp nature's orderings and "correct' nature's
>   randomness with its framework of controlled causality. The
>   shattering of natural nexuses, the interdiction of organic
>   renewal, the conscious elaboration of death-orientated
>   processes are not simply the unfortunate by-products of
>   ruthless power hunger. Rather they are conscious
>   desecrations that are integral to satisfying that hunger,
>   which is ultimately to see Earth nullified and sterilized in
>   the triumph of the artificial and the mechanical---in other
>   words, of the purely man-made. As long as nature transcends
>   man, concealing her ultimate mysteries and sentencing even
>   the Cartel to preterition sure, there must be a constant
>   gnostic assault upon this transcendence, spearheaded by
>   scientists and technologists. The aims are the destruction
>   of nature's sanctum sanctorum through omniscience and
>   through mastery over her life processes in a man-made
>   Kingdom of Death.
> 
>   GR.539
>   "DEVIL"S ADVOCATE'S what the shingle sez, yes inside is a
>   Jesuit
."
> 
>   Eddins GP.129
>   What the Jesuit is making clear is the metaphysical scope of
>   the usurpation in which They are engaged.