atdtda:31 pg 891 - transcendence / ascension

Bekah Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 4 23:03:43 CDT 2008


On May 4, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> First impression.....(with much detail you have provided to think  
> thu, think about, speculate
> on..)
>
> --Mark gets on his hobby horse again-----maybe, definitely,  
> transcendence is a huge,
> multivalent theme......................
>
> BUT, I think part of the meaning here is that Yashmeen 'goes  
> beyond" the crazy Reimann math of 'a point at infinity'...........
>
> for the life in time of birth....
>
> I want to think, sometimes, that TRP in AtD is taking the infinity  
> out of "religious transcendance".......


I was thinking of transcendence in many ways - certainly not limited  
to religious transcendence.   We have many folks in this book  
transcending all sorts of things from sexual limitations to time and  
space.  I think some may even transcend religion.

Does ascension,  if it keeps on going,  eventually go in an arc (like  
following the curve of the/a universe)?   How about transcendence?    
What is the difference?  Ascendence goes up and transcendence goes  
through?   If the universe is a sphere(s) does transcendence  
eventually go in a horizontal arc?    Descendence goes down,   
obviously - and there is some of that, too.  I don't think there's  
any arc involved there - except perhaps the reversal of the ascension  
arc.    Are there any other ways one can "scend"?

Bekah
wondering where the moon or mars are tonight




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