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Ian "Marvin" Graye
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Some preliminary impressions:
There is a humorous religious and political scepticism at work in the novel. Plans feature in both religious and political contexts. They seem to be equally capable of fabrication. They are not necessarily to be believed. They are something that observers indulge in, rather than protagonists. Perhaps, protagonists just [get on and] do it. If something is secret, it must be valuable.
— Nov 25, 2013 07:24PM
There is a humorous religious and political scepticism at work in the novel. Plans feature in both religious and political contexts. They seem to be equally capable of fabrication. They are not necessarily to be believed. They are something that observers indulge in, rather than protagonists. Perhaps, protagonists just [get on and] do it. If something is secret, it must be valuable.
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Ian "Marvin" Graye
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You can read this novel with either a grin or a frown.
— Nov 28, 2013 10:36AM
Ian "Marvin" Graye
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They were settled in the Temple, making friends with the Moslems instead of killing them. They communicated with Moslem mystics...[and were] in contact with Arab and Jewish secret sects.
124 Casaubon: "Chairman Mao says that revolutionaries must live among the people like fish in water."
124 pigtailed communists
124 Provins
— Nov 25, 2013 06:21PM
124 Casaubon: "Chairman Mao says that revolutionaries must live among the people like fish in water."
124 pigtailed communists
124 Provins
Ian "Marvin" Graye
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BINAH
49 1968
49 "To enter a university a year or two after 1968 was like being admitted to the Academie de St Cyr in 1793."
Born out of time, at the wrong time, born under a bad sign
49 Belbo 15 years older than Casaubon
— Nov 24, 2013 11:04AM
49 1968
49 "To enter a university a year or two after 1968 was like being admitted to the Academie de St Cyr in 1793."
Born out of time, at the wrong time, born under a bad sign
49 Belbo 15 years older than Casaubon
Ian "Marvin" Graye
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19 HOKHMAH
21 narrator = Casaubon
"The Plan. The Plan is real...They're after me."
22 "The Templars."
22 key to Milan apartment
22 The Plan real? Absurd. We had invented it ourselves.
22 Lorenza Pellegrini, photo
23 Abulafia
— Nov 23, 2013 11:09PM
21 narrator = Casaubon
"The Plan. The Plan is real...They're after me."
22 "The Templars."
22 key to Milan apartment
22 The Plan real? Absurd. We had invented it ourselves.
22 Lorenza Pellegrini, photo
23 Abulafia
Ian "Marvin" Graye
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12 Sam Spade
13 mirrors
15 the Demiurge, Yaldabaoth, the first Archon, odious creation of Sophia, who was responsible for the world and its fatal flaw
— Nov 23, 2013 11:08PM
13 mirrors
15 the Demiurge, Yaldabaoth, the first Archon, odious creation of Sophia, who was responsible for the world and its fatal flaw
Ian "Marvin" Graye
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Keter is the highest of the Sephirot of the Tree of Life in Kabbalah.
Sephirot, meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein Sof (The Infinite) reveals himself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain of higher metaphysical realms.
— Nov 23, 2013 03:32PM
Sephirot, meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein Sof (The Infinite) reveals himself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain of higher metaphysical realms.
Ian "Marvin" Graye
is on page 3 of 641
When the Light of the Endless was drawn in the form of a straight line in the Void... it was not drawn and extended immediately downwards, indeed it extended slowly � that is to say, at first the Line of Light began to extend and at the very start of its extension in the secret of the Line it was drawn and shaped into a wheel, perfectly circular all around. (translation of the Hebrew)
— Nov 23, 2013 03:30PM
