Grace (and Beyond) before Thanksgiving from IV

[Mark Kohut]

Here's a fragment from Inherent Vice, Chap 13, that I was 
gonna send 'round that circle of aforementioned geniuses
'cause it resurrects a key Pynchon word AND also, now, it
may lead us into more discussion of the "occult' on the surface.

Page 224, we have Sortilege, described as a [totally?] sympathetic character within IV, by some plister, which seemed not to be overtly challenged [until now?] has a thought about grace....

"I don't know why I am telling you all this."

"Doc didn't either, though he wished he had a small aggravation
fee for each time somebody had spilled more than they meant to and
then said they didn't know why. Sortilege, who liked finding new uses for the term "Beyond," thought this was a form of grace and that he should just accept it, because it could go away as easily as it came."

Cf. Grace and Lew Basnight. Discuss. 

A...and "beyond".....??? what's that mean from a totally sympathetic [is she?] character?