Subject: AtDDtA(15): A Neuroptahy Had Taken Hold

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 15 14:41:55 CDT 2007


> "Soon the crew began to find evidence of Trespass everywhere,...

That sounds like the "mystery of iniquity" that Pauls says works now.
I'm thinking by my studies I can narrow down the precise way in which
the evil numinous is distinquished from the good numinous.
I'll let you know if I solve it, if describable by production processes.
Meanwhile...

Not only does this serpent read Milton, Blake, Keats and Jung; it can also take 
up the pen on behalf of its own point of view, transforming, thereby, our 
knowledge into gnosis.
  -- http://www28.brinkster.com/gregmogenson/serpent.htm
  The Praying Serpent: The Psychology of an Image

The theology which it inspires, though not fixed as to its content, falls into 
the genre of what has been called liberation theology. The subjugated, the 
disenfranchised, and the repressed do not look to God to liberate them from the 
serpent (though many a well-intentioned missionary has tried to monger this kind 
of salvation). On the contrary, they look to the serpent to liberate them from 
God, or, rather, from an image of God from which they have been excluded.
  -- http://www28.brinkster.com/gregmogenson/serpent.htm
  The Praying Serpent: The Psychology of an Image


Also, tha URL reinforces what mikebailey wrote:
> ...could it be said that the _lack_ of distinguishment
> of sacrality is at least a bit compatible with 
> an immanent creator?  ie, it's all sacred - or
> at least, he's not saying it's not all sacred...




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