Prognostication on the P-list

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Thanks for the post, I suspect the Waite links are going to be very helpful in the upcoming months.

For the record, I attempted "The DiVinci Code" a couple of years ago and dropped the thing like a flaming scone on account of Dan Brown's M.O. of telegraphing plot twists in a bogus attempt to turn the screws. Can't stand the writing style. On top of that, the whole Gnostic heresy was very old news to me (used to live with a pair that published "New Gnostics").

However the Eileen Pagels books, such as "The Gnostic Gospels" are well written, thoughtful, introductions to Gnosticism.

http://southerncrossreview.org/2/gnostic.html

Might as well throw in my own contribution to the Pynchon/Tarot data inventory:

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_fool.html

This is one of the data links you get when Googling my name.
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> > Wonder if the various locales the new book is said
> > to circumnavigate represent way points in some
> > kind of search for a holy-grail like entity. An
> > attempt to recover some long lost treasure. 
> Mystical  
> > stuff. I too really like that sort of thing....
> 
> If you like Pynchon, then you'll love ...
> 
> http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/reviews.html
>  
> > Also the tarot as interpreted by Arthur Edward
> > Waite, a prominent member of the Order of the
> > Golden Dawn, figures at the end of GR with  
> > Weissmann's Tarot.... 
> 
> If you like Waite, then you'll love ...
> 
> http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/index.htm
> 
> http://home.comcast.net/~vilex/ShipofFools.html
> 
> http://www.tarotpassages.com/old_moonstruck/oneill/index.htm
> 
> > Can't remember if the White Visitation crowd was
> > directly responsible for the reading....
> 
> If you like Weissmann's Tarot, then you'll love ...
> 
> http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/weissmann.html
> 
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_tarot.html
> 
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/746.htm
> 
> But I can't see that's it's even hinted at as to who
> reads his cards (pp. 746-9), so ...
> 
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