ATDTDA 750 (once more)

[grladams at teleport.com]

I have read your recent posts today. So, I re-read Yashmeens letter, and
reflected on a book I am reading. As usual Pynchon and the list cause me to
teeter on the luny bin trying to figure it all out and get it to hold
together. Thanks Ya Sam, for your section. I'm reading a book titled The
Secret History of the World as laid down by the secret societies by Mark
Booth. He details the evolution of humankind and our attitude toward death,
across geography, east, then west, where gods leave us, and numbers arrive.
(I'm glossing, forgive me Mr Booth) He describes time passing from an
Oriental frame of mind to a Egyptian frame of mind --from a deep-in-thought
type mode to the mode where we're building and carving rock --a material
mode.. He recounts long time progression in cycles, or processional ages.
One shift is from an Indian Epoch to Persian Epoch (parenthetic mine here) 
"If the Indian epoch had been a recapitulation of the heavenly time before
the separation of earth and sun, this new Persian epoch (Zarathustra..) was
a recapitulation of the fiery period..." among his the line up across many
chapters are Age of Aquarius, then the flood, and how saints like Enoch
ascended to Shambhala, (Tibet.?.). And during a peaceful ancient time in
greek myth, during Osiris numbers took on spiritual meaning.. Then early
animal and proto man pulled (or like someone on the list said, got ripped)
away from a vegetable body into hardening (ossification) that occurs with
human thought, then, we get free will and make mistakes, gods slowly
withdrawing from our plane (as they were in it in the Indian Epoch..) i
love this quote "the higher more ineffable the god the harder it became to
squeeze down into the tightening net of physical necessity that covered the
earth." does that remind anyone of Yashmeen's "they used to come all the
time" on p. 750 Booth goes on with humans in a fallen world, yet to a world
where numbers would set us free to build and measure, thanks to or because
of Lucifer and the beginning of wisdom (prudential and practical wisdom not
"good vs bad" kind-the necessary evil kind. Without this kind of wisdom we
wouldn't have sex.(i'm glossing hundreds of pages, sorry) I then get to a
page, page 149 where it says

"With the death of Krishna in the year 3102 BC, the Kali Yuga -- he Dark
Age-- began. A yuga is a division of a great year, there being eight yugas
in a complete processional cycle. In both Eastern and Western traditions,
this great cosmic shift began in 3102 and it ended in 1899.... Freemasons
commemorated the approaching end of the Kali Yuga by erecting gigantic
monuments in the centre of every great city in the western world..."
thus also later on p. 153
"The Egyptians initiated the great spiritual mission of the West, someties
called in alchemy, Sufism Freemasonry, and elsewhere in the secret
societies, _the Work_. The mission was to work on matter, to cut it, carve
it, to imbue it with intention ujntil every particle of matter in the
universe had been worked on and spiritualized." [then stuff about the great
Pyramids..]

In building it and measuring it we try to tempt the gods to live on the
earthly plane again. Dilemma?!

Seems like I'm either onto something or completely confused. I hope others
are too because it feels funny and I have a neck cramp.

Jill


Original Message:
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From: Ya Sam takoitov at hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:51:03 +0700
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: ATDTDA 750 (once more)



ATDTDA 750

The Work of the World
“to learn the Work, to transcend the World”  c.f.

“Bakhtin warns against confusing the ‘real’ and ‘represented’
worlds; however, we mustn’t see the boundary as absolute and impermeable.
The two worlds are in ‘continual mutual interaction….The work and the
world represented in it enter the real world and enrich it, and the real
world enters the work and its world as part of the process of its creation,
as well as part of its subsequent life, in a continual renewing of the work
through the creative perception of listeners and readers. Of course this
process of exchange itself is itself chronotopic: it occurs first and
foremost in the historically developing social world, but without ever
losing contact with changing historical space. We might even speak of a
special creative chronotope inside which this exchange between work and
life occurs, and which constitutes the distinctive life of the work.”

http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lt/lt204/bakhtin.htm


Rinpungpa 
“The most beautiful and moving description of the journey [to Shambhala]
appears, however, in Rigpa Dzinpai Phonya or The Knowledge-bearing
Messenger, a long poem composed in the form of a letter by a
sixteenth-century Tibetan prince named Rinpung Ngawang Jigdad.”
Edwin Bernbaum, The Way to Shambhala, p.182.

The recurring theme of doubling:
“Father, I have long known of a strange doubleness to my life”

Insh’allah  
is an Arabic term evoked by Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu speakers to indicate
hope for an aforementioned event to occur in the future. The Turks render
it "İnşallah". The phrase translates into English as "God willing" or "If
it is God's will".
The term is also related to another Arabic term, Mā šāʾ Allāh (Ù
ا
شاء الله), which means "God has willed it".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insha'Allah


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