V-2nd - Chapter 8 - Section IV - Stencil's soliloquy

[Joe Allonby]

*ROBIN? ARE YOU MAD AT US?*

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Robin Landseadel <
robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> I believe the Angel is supposed to represent the Archangel Michael, least
> that's what I've read and others told me. Michael's supposed to be:
> . . .an archangel in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition. He is
viewed
> as the field commander of the Army of God. He is mentioned by name
> in the Book of Daniel, the Book of Jude, and the Book of
> Revelation, in which he leads God's armies against Satan's forces
> during his uprising. In the book of Daniel, Michael appears as "one of
> the chief princes" who in Daniel's vision comes to Gabriel's aid in his
> contest with the angel of Persia (Dobiel). Michael is also described
> there as the advocate of the Children of Israel and as a "great prince
> who stands up for the children of your [Daniel's] people".
> In Hebrew, the name Michael means "who is like God"(mi-who, ke-as or
> like, El-deity), which in Talmudic tradition is interpreted as a
rhetorical
> question: "Who is like God?" (which expects an answer in the negative)
> to imply that no one is like God. In this way, Michael is seen as a
> symbol of humility before God.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(archangel)
> Make of that what you will, I don't know much about Michael, know plenty
> about Robin. But the Angel ain't in charge of these forces that surround.
> This fluidly gendered upwardly mirrored expression of the higher self is
> more like a conduit or passageway for those forces, an entity with the Art
> to fuse seemingly opposed forces. It's your better Angel. It's the
> Temperance of tempering steel with fire and water, it is the place where
> opposites have to meet anyway, might as well make the most of it.
Temperance
> hangs out around the center of the Tree of Life . . .
> http://www.songspell.net/tarot.html
> . . . and is the best single observation post in the deck, the P.O.V. of
the
> Artist's eye, which is one of many good reasons Aleister Crowley -- Mr.
> T.W.I.T. hisself—renames the card "Art" in his Thoth Tarot.
>
> On Oct 11, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
> like you said, another week or even a couple of weeks on just the
>
> implications of that question might allow proper consideration.
>
> I suppose one of the things that always turned me off about "V." were
these
> negative images of the strange female, a negative cast to witchy-ness that
> later gets blown away by Geli Tripping and pretty much stays away for good
> after that.
>
> fortunately, Robin's nature spiritualism and his bringing up the
> Temperance card at this juncture indicate that he is more than aware
> of the issue.
>
> http://sourceryforge.org/index.php/Paul_Case
> very brief article; apparently Mr Case, before founding Builders of
> the Adytum, was a member of the New York chapter of the Golden Dawn;
> of the existence of which chapter aware this for the first time has
> made me...
>
> the Twits spreading their wings in NYC...building apartment buildings
> with girders having solid cores of selenium...
> "They just don't build them like they used to..."
> "You never studied, Peter!  They never made buildings like this!"
>
> is V. the Gatekeeper?  is Stencil the Keymaster?
>
> but, the Temperance card: http://tinyurl.com/27ufe9s
>
> is that right?  This would represent a woman with control over some of
> the most important primal forces of Nature...
>
>
> --
> - But you can wade in the water
> and never get wet
> if you keep on doin' that rag (Grateful Dead, "Doin' That Rag")
>
>
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