AtD, naming

Wed May 14 12:14:27 CDT 2008

> I took out a tape from the library about some castle in the
> Languedoc region of France (had a history teaching fellow
> who said that word "Languedoc" so sensuously I can hear it
> still) apparently they were all gnostic-type heretics there
> and the Church came in and slaughtered them by the thousands.

 Oh, yes, Languedoc... Cathars... the Beguines (female) and
 Beghards (male) (from which word we get the word beggars)...

 I have encountered several of their female mystic sisters
 in my search for auto-erotics. Like Emily Dickinson, they
 are often mislabeled Lesbian. Chastity (in AC) and Charity.

 http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/beguines.htm

 http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1995/beguine.html

The diocese of Liège in the Low Countries, the home of the Premonstratensian 
order and the site of much reform activity, was also the birthplace of the 
Beguine movement.[22] The first woman to be recognized as a Beguine was Mary 
d'Oignies (1177-1213),
  -- http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1995/beguine.html
  Sisters Between: Beguines

Mary showed that she had assumed the imitatio Christi to be a gender-neutral, 
or, at least, gender-ambiguous way of life.
  -- http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1995/beguine.html
  Sisters Between: Beguines

The conceptual strategy Jacques employed to differentiate Mary from the 
"slippery sex" was the key to his support of the Beguines. His emphasis on her 
extreme piety and abhorrence of the flesh indicate that he had opened up a third 
gender distinction to contain her and her spiritual sisters: "Holy Female."
  -- http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1995/beguine.html
  Sisters Between: Beguines

The height of the Beguine movement produced two of the greatest mystics of the 
Middle Ages: Hadewijch of Antwerp (ca. early to mid-thirteenth century) and 
Mechthild of Magdeburg (1212-1281/1301). These women enlarged the sphere of 
Beguine piety to include profound experiences of divine union, and the 
composition of original and theologically complex works of literature.
  -- http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1995/beguine.html
  Sisters Between: Beguines

For the mystics, the spiritually sexual, yet physically asexual role of sponsa 
Christi--or bride of Christ--offered a sense of selfhood which incorporated both 
gendered and androgynous attributes. By assuming the identity of neither wife 
nor nun, the Beguines were able to assimilate the most desirable characteristics 
of both.
  -- http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1995/beguine.html
  Sisters Between: Beguines

Perhaps the most outspoken of these was Marguerite Porete, a French mystic who 
was burned as a heretic in 1310. In her 60,000-word treatise Mirror of Simple 
Souls Who Are Annihilated and Who Only Remain in the Will and Desire for Love, 
Marguerite employed imagery similar to that of Hadewijch and Mechthild to 
describe seven stages in the soul's ascent to complete union with God.[46]
  -- http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1995/beguine.html
  Sisters Between: Beguines

Marguerite was called before the inquisitors on suspicion of promoting the 
heresy of the Free Spirit.[50] This was the belief that it is possible for a 
human being to attain spiritual perfection in the present life, and that once an 
individual has attained such a state, he or she may then commit any sin with 
impunity. Also known as libertinism or antinomianism, the heresy of the Free 
Spirit frightened the inquisitors because of its perceived threat to the Church 
structure.
  -- http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1995/beguine.html
  Sisters Between: Beguines

What is interesting about them, they show that embracing the
full-fledged metanoi of immanance can be taught, making Jesus'
salvific role didactic. (He gave "power to become" sons of God).
They found the Essene's soma and re-generated gnosticism afresh.

Cross-threading my lists a bit here, they destroy phallogocentricm!

> But your main focus is mitigating phallocentrism and misogyny.
> Me too! Viva la revolu.... Oh, but you lack an essential clue:
> 
> Why is the phallocentric mindset so pervasive? What is the ethiology of this 
> malignancy?
>   -- http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisust02.html
>   Solidarity ~ Sustainability ~ Patriarchy ~ Gender Equity ~ Religious Patriarchy ~ Sustainable Development
> 
> And yet, patriarchal bias is pervasive in most of them. Religion scholars have 
> yet to elucidate why this is so.
>   -- http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv02n08.html
>   SOLIDARITY & SUSTAINABILITY V2 N8 ~ Solidarity, Sustainability, Subsidiarity, Sustainable Development, Religion, Patriarchy, Gender Equity
> 
> 
> Let me just say two words openly: autofellatio and autocunnilingus.
> (Henceforth always AF and AC.)
> 
> These signs are not the word, and if I voice either sign, it is still not
> The Word. For the performative visceral speech acts are self-referential,
> and not semiotic signs, are incommunicable, ineffable, monadic. They can
> neither be given nor taken; Hence they are not subject to mimetic rivalry.
> 
> 
> 1. If all sexuality is under interdiction;
> 
> 2. And if the qadesh (holy/sodomite) is anathema (dedicated/cursed);
> 
> 3. What can we say of a topic that is NOWHERE mentioned in the bible,
> yet fills all of it's metaphors?--The excluded center. Boo: taboo!
> 
> 
> Also found on Luis' site:  "Anatomy is destiny."--Freud.
> 
> "The male has a six-inch head start to the table of the soul."--Glenn.
> 
> 4. Hence any female divinity is rare to a fourth order of rarity.
> 
> I found few seraphs (six labia, go figure), but especially, Emily Dickinson,
> who is prolific, clear, and in "good faith": (from her collected poems):
> 
> 
> Find Words: table
> 
> he Lightning is a yellow Fork From Tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dro
> 
> s bestows On plainer Days, whose Table far As Certainty can see Is laden wit
> 
> nence is there -- His is the Halcyon Table -- That never seats but One -- And w
> 
> s estimate A Saucer hold a Loaf. A Table of a Tree Demands the little King An
> 
> anksgiving Day. Celebrated part at Table Part in Memory. Neither Patriarch no
> 
> me -- to dine -- I trembling drew the Table near -- And touched the Curious Win
> 
> ay that I shall go -- Nor lisp it at the table -- Nor heedless by the way Hint 
> 
> Pilgrim, He and I -- A Berry from our table Reserve -- for charity -- 774 It is 
> 
> Or find the Banquet mean -- The Table is not laid without Till it is laid within.
> 
> op -- Was God so economical? His Table's spread too high for Us -- Unless W
> 
> e food Upon a shifting plate Whose table once a Guest but not The second tim
> 
>  the Curious Wine -- 'Twas this on Tables I had seen -- When turning, hungry
> 
> hat Ultimate for that? It is not fit for Table For Beggar or for Cat. A Bone has 
> 
> een the Rose -- How gay upon your table My velvet life to close -- Since I am o
> 
> 
> 
> This is one of my favorites:
> 
> 579
> 
> I had been hungry, all the Years --
> My Noon had Come -- to dine --
> I trembling drew the Table near --
> And touched the Curious Wine --
> 
> 'Twas this on Tables I had seen --
> When turning, hungry, Home
> I looked in Windows, for the Wealth
> I could not hope -- for Mine --
> 
> I did not know the ample Bread --
> 'Twas so unlike the Crumb
> The Birds and I, had often shared
> In Nature's -- Dining Room --
> 
> The Plenty hurt me -- 'twas so new --
> Myself felt ill -- and odd --
> As Berry -- of a Mountain Bush --
> Transplanted -- to a Road --
> 
> Nor was I hungry -- so I found
> That Hunger -- was a way
> Of Persons outside Windows --
> The Entering -- takes away --
>   -- file://C:\i\t\big\r_emily.txt
> 
> 
> 
> This is the same as the Shekinah that overshadowed Mary, or the Dove that
> descended upon Jesus, or the Key-stone in the arcane arch, Or Jonah's
> whale, gourd, and worm. It is Atlas that shoulders the world, and the
> God of Isaiah, whose throne is the sky, and Moses given to see the
> backside of God. It is the name, word, work, blood, body, water,
> confession, baptism, sacrifice, death, prayer, everything that is needful
> in a convenient timeless non-technological package. It is Dante's Beatrice
> (blessed), Shakespeare's Hamlet (self-father, ego dissolution), Kafka's
> Metamorphosis, Le Petit Prince, all the bird poets, The Rhyme, Kubla Khan,
> .... some like Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Poe, Millay in "bad faith"....
> Oh! Goggle and read Baudelaire's poem Carrion, an excellent characature.
> 
> Anyway, I tend to go on and on.... I'm practiced in loose associations.
> 

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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