On Being Certain/In Two Places At Once

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

          Jill: I like this hypothesis too, Hassan being the one. . . .

Me three.

          Hassan's gaze was open but unreadable. 
          "We have nearly completed the journey."
          "And the Prophet? The Doorsa's master? Shall
          I speak to him?"
          "You spoke to him," said Hassan.
          "When---" Kit began, and in the instant, there was Baikal
          AtD 768

Hassan, of course, was no longer there. And who is the Doorsa's master?
The Magyakan invokes 'Agdy', the local variation of Angi. So the Doorsa
is really a front for Hassan who must be Magyakan, a shaman who can 
call down thunder and fire. He must have needed Kit to complete his own
work, maybe something to do with the boy's weird karma around 
explosives and justice:

          Agni was one of three great gods in the Rig Veda and was also 
          worshiped by the Persians until the time of Zoroaster. His 
          personification of fire made him the center of the ancient Vedic 
          worship. Agni took three forms: celestial as the sun, atmospheric 
          as lightening, and terrestrial as fire. He is all that burns: sun, heat, 
          stomach, lust, and passion. His three spheres are the Earth, Sky, 
          and Space, the worlds respective of men, spirits, and deities. He 
          is priest of the gods and the god of priests, and serves as liaison 
          between gods and men. His fire altar was oriented toward the East, 
          the direction of the sunrise, the ever-new beginning.

http://lightdancing.gaia.com/blog/2007/4/angi_god_of_fire

http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/bodhidharma/mountain.html

http://gunn.co.nz/anand/hinduism/diction.html

          Jill:
          And for me, at the outset of the other fork of this thread, 
          thought the missing word was "grace." Alas, the simple notion 
          of grace I gathered as a child in Lutheran Sunday school, has 
          been all but ruined by too much analysis via western religious 
          philosophers.

          But I think I know what grace means, and to me it's a highly 
          personal aspect of standing before God who emits grace 
          liberally in every direction --you place yourself in the world to 
          attain it. Enlightenment, which Robin might have nailed, goes 
          nicely with the light and dark themes too. Both must be sought. 
          I think grace presents in a moment in time and then just as 
          capriciously, goes unseen. I feel that dreams in general, and 
          Kits dreams, with voices he seems he "should" know, are 
          moments like this. Enlightenment, Grace, whatever.

I agree, save for that "whatever." I see Enlightment and Grace
being tied to Compassion. In a way, this is a trek towards the 
sacred, looking for the light in the east. But the places that
the Theosophists were seeking and the Golden Dawn were
seeking were the places where Christianity and Hinduism
and Buddhism met up and connected, the source for the
power for the big three. And Pynchon's Conception of
Grace strikes me as the unexpected but richly deserved
payoff for keeping up with one's karma.