AtDtDA(34): The Baby Was Born During the Rose Harvest
Bekah
bekker2 at mac.com
Sat Jun 21 13:14:08 CDT 2008
I'm rather fond of Rebekah myself. I hadn't noticed the little
possible connection here, being too immersed in Ljubica and roses.
But I've thought of her often during the ATD reading and discussion.
Ghosts is a great theme.
Bekah
Yes, I retook the name because of M&D (it's what my dear dad called me)
On Jun 21, 2008, at 7:27 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
> Wondeful pick-up Dave, please allow me to just toss a
> couple of curve balls in your general direction.
>
> Violet: Again, the Spiritual/Amythest/High Holy Feast Days,
> Elect. So this Love child is the spiritual love child, the Child
> of the New Aeon---New Age, the announcement of the
> dawning of the New Age. The act that created this Love
> Child fused same sex love/sex with the creation of the
> child. I detect an element of the Quarternionic function
> in the sex act that created little Ljubica. But even more
> than that, I intuit* that Ljubica must be the child of sex
> magick of some sort, most probabally Crowley's:
>
> http://www.claasvommars.de/aeon.gif
>
> I love Rebekah, i'd guess from the context of the page that dear
> Rebekah is visible to Charles on account of her appearing in a
> dream.
>
> Laughter does not traverse easily the baffling of Death,
> ---yet he cannot harden his heart enought to miss the
> old Note within --- 172
>
> Further down:
>
> . . . .he returns to his bedcloths.
>
> Of course, she does show up on page 314 for Charles and Jeremiah,
> both awake and about to have at it when one of her potent wings puts
> a stop to all that, thank you very much. If your looking for a theme,
> sure---ghosts works fine for me.
>
>
> *I haven't read Crowley's sex magick stuff [kinda sheilding
> myself from the glare, kinda sensitive to the light if you
> gather my drift], so I can't say for sure. On the other hand,
> the YRC triangle in AtD echos [in a much more positive way]
> the Brigidier Pudding episode in GR. I know that Pudding's
> scene is [apperantly inverted, go figure] sex magick, as
> Geli's finger on the pulse of what's happening most certainly
> is as well [and probabally a lot more fun, to boot.]
>
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