AtDTDA (43) Born of Light 708, 953, 957, 959

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          . . . ..Soon you will enter a country none of you have known 
          and few can imagine---the realm of silence. Before crossing 
          that fateful frontier, each of you is to be allowed one question, 
          one only. Think closely, my children, and do not waste this 
          opportunity,"

          When it was Cyprian's turn, he knelt and whispered, 


          "What is it that is born of light?"
          958


You have to move ahead in order to look behind.

          But the condition was attached that he should walk in front of 
          her and not look back until he had reached the upper world. 
          In his anxiety, he broke his promise, and Eurydice vanished 
          again from his sight - this time forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurydice

Phosgene:

          The great majority of phosgene is used in the production of 
          isocyanates, the most important being toluene diisocyanate 
          (TDI) and methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI). These 
          isocyanates are precursors to polyurethanes. Significant 
          amounts are also used in the production of polycarbonates 
          via its reaction with bisphenol A.[1] Polycarbonates are an 
          important class of engineering thermoplastic found, for example, 
          in lenses in eye glasses. . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosgene

. . . ..and, of course, CDs, DVDs and other modes of storing data.

You can go back to pages 689/691 for more background on the 
"Macedonian Question", but for the moment let's talk about light.

          "Born of Light," said Cyprian, as if about to understand something.
          "It seems this isn't a gas weapon, after all," said the motoros. 
          "'Phosgene' is really code for light. We learned here it is light which 
          is really the destructive agent. . . .[snip]
          . . . .From military experience with searchlights, it was widely known 
          how effectively light at that candle-power could produce 
          helpnessness and fear. The next step was to find a way to project 
          it as a stream of destructive energy."

Enlightenment = Gnosis = Terror.

And note that this is all happening in the prescence of R.U.S.H.

Cyprian's  been "shadowed" by  R.U.S.H., this goes back to
page 708:

          "'Shadowing.'" Cyprian, somewhat embarrassed, had not 
          heard the term before.
          "Following a subject, keeping as close as his own shadow," 
          Theign explained.
          "Obliged  almost to be someone's . . . projection."
          "If you like."
          "So close in fact as to begin to lose oneself. . . ."

Some film buff out there: there's a Jean Cocteau telling of the Orpheus myth 
that involves Motorcycles, what is it? I've seen the movie, but is far back in 
the daze of Rep theaters, recycling the past to a well educated and usually 
stoned audience. Cyprian is pulling some sort of Eurydice number here. 

On Page  957 we find Cyprian entranced before an Ikon of Zalmoxis:

          . . . gazing into it as if into a cinema screen where pictures 
          moved and stories unfolded which he must attend to.

Zalmoxis points to a parallel Jesus figure, and this Convant appears to be a
pre-echo of the Woman's Spirituality movement at the same time as it's
the continuing existence of the cult/religion of Orpheus:

         According to Herodotus, at one point Zalmoxis traveled to Egypt and 
         brought the people mystic knowledge about the immortality of the soul, 
         teaching them that they would pass at death to a certain place where 
         they would enjoy all possible blessings for all eternity.

         Zalmoxis then had a subterranean chamber constructed (other 
         accounts say that it was a natural cave) on the holy mountain of 
         Kogaion, to which he withdrew for three years (some other 
         accounts considered he actually lived in Hades for these three years).

         After his disappearance, he was considered dead and mourned by 
         his people, but after three years he showed himself once more to 
         the Getae, who were thus convinced about his teachings: an episode 
         that some considered to be a resurrection (Thus he can be seen a 
         life-death-rebirth deity, parallel to Tammuz or Jesus.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmoxis

         Part of the discipline for a postulant was to remain acutely 
         conscious, at every moment of the day, of the nearly unbearable 
         conditions of cosmic struggle between darkness and light 
         proceeding, inescapably, behind the presented world.
         957

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras

More on Cyprian and Zalmoxis in a later post.