Understanding Auto-Fellatio, etc.

[Glenn Scheper]

That was a good link! Three iterations of Surf
hauled in 1940 Files, 33Mb. Here's a real gem:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/alchemy.html
Romanticism On the Net 5 (February 1997)

 The introspective, radically symbolic and mythic language of
 hermetic philosophy of all ages, as well as its affirmation
 of a meaningful correspondence between mind and Nature, puts
 it - alongside Romanticism and the Platonic tradition -
 within a mode of thought and perception which draws its
 creative inspiration from a perennial substratum of innate
 archetypal ideas. Western alchemy, which flourished in
 Europe through to the end of the Renaissance, gradually
 faded into obscurity during the eighteenth century as a
 result of its incompatibility with the hypostasis of reason
 that characterised the spirit of "enlightenment."
 Romanticism, then, as a metarational reaction to empiricism,
 entails a reconnection to the archetypal realm and a
 corresponding reactivation of alchemical themes and symbols.
...
 The quest for unity or wholeness central to both alchemy and
 Romanticism thus replaces the moralism of a redemption
 grounded in reasoned theological belief systems. In
 Romanticism and alchemy redemption is, in other words,
 displaced from the rational by a reassertion of an innate
 capacity to redeem oneself through the attainment of
 wholeness. This averment of self-perfection is, then, an
 instance of the "de-moralisation" of the religious quest,
 which characterises the subjection of the self to the
 morally neutral archetypal realm.

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As to the question posed, what worth an AF reading?

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/secret_s.html
Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians

 A scorner seeketh wisdom and findeth it not; but knowledge
 is easy unto him that understandeth - Proverbs 14, 6.

When I was acutely psychotic, later merely schizoaffective,
it was as in Kafka's _Judgment_: My very being was at stake.

Later I felt I had an epochal prophetic role -- and who know?
It hasn't been 3.5 years since the fall of the twin towers.
Something extraordinary might happen at that future time.

Now it's merely a habit, like being the first hand up with
the right answer in school, salivating like Pavlov's dogs.

If no one can explain "In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word was God," Then I offer
a concrete alternative, that the auto-oral-genital contact
is a speech act; that something essentially like slaying
and bearing are confounded in the reflexive act, producing
neither but rather, the metamorphosis or better, metanoia.

This is some form of rebirth or adoption that make one the
causa sui, while others have necessary beings, progenitors.

So I offer concrete referents, corrigible, refutable, not
as dogma that only answers "It's a transcendental mystery."

Why is it important? Science loves to shake out falsehood.
If there's nothing here but a sexual fetish, wouldn't that,
shouldn't that, influence philosophy and moral systems?
(This can't be all there is: I haven't been hedonist enuf!)

If confession and baptism have hard referents-meaning AF
as Paul's 'works', then what worth mumbles and immersion?

If body and blood are in AF, then what's left in a wafer?
Deception? Or a valid hypothecation in fields of meaning?

If, after nullifying the dross, there remains something to
religion, shouldn't we understand it, mine it as science?
I suggest, tantric meditations open wet-quantum mechanics
to experiment: surprising irruptions of reverse causality
having been a salient experience again and again.

As to this typical ancient recommendation to concealment,
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/lambtext.html
I tell you I am now opening the books. Interpreting works
of dead authors, "the dead were judged out of the things
that were written in the books." But by giving Revelation
first corrigible referents, "the book of life was opened."
 
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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