AtDtDA(28): Invisible Functionaries

[Monte Davis]

Dave Monroe sez:

>> [McLaughlin]  This interpretation implies that the 
>> supernatural Other side is not a 
> > holistically unified realm free of the divisions and 
> > distinctions made 
> > and enforced by earthly controllers ... but rather the originary 
> > system of control... 

> "Why shouldn't the IG go to séances? They ought to be quite 
> at home with the bureaucracies of the other side."  (GR, Pt. 
> III, pp. 410-11)

I can't think of any grimmer, more Gnostic hint that OBA drops -- and
there's an equivalent to this somewhere in each of his books: Don't even
*think* of transcendence, because it's systems of control all the way up (or
down).

Maybe we'll all go fishing
 or maybe we're all on the hook for good.. 
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