atdtda:31 pg 891 - transcendence / ascension...BEKAH NAILS IT!

[Mark Kohut]

Bekah!
   
  YES!.....remember that line from the first Chapter:    page 9.
   
  "So, if you went up high enough, you'd be going 'down' again?"----Chick Counterfly
   
  "Approaching the surface of 'another planet', maybe?" Chick persisted.
   
  "Not exactly. No. Another 'surface' but an earthlyt one. Often to our regret, all too earthly, 
   
  Then:
  "these are mysteries of the profession," Chick supposed. [he's the 'human' just picked up, remember]
   
  "You'll see, In time, of course"      
   
  IN TIME...IN TIME!

Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  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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