Gorman ("The Specter") Takeshi & Neo-Freudian Revisionist Quackery

[Terrance]

> 
> I don't think he embraces Gnosticism, but it is a useful model as a religion
> that points to a fucked-up world that is unavoidably so, one inherently
> structurally "flawed."   And, unlike traditional Xianity,  it questions the
> "goodness" of the god which created it, which seeems an honest appraisal
> rather than a whitewash for the god.

The world, the earth, as the Ancient Jews believed, is good in Pynchon's
novels. 

They, THEM, The FIRM, are the Gnostics. Blicero is Their godman. 

See The Gnostic Pynchon by Dwight Eddins 
Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press, 
c1990. ISBN: 0-25331-907-2