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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