| Subject: fdf |
| From: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 1/6/09, 13:37 |
There is always a tendency to
extrapolate apropos of nothing, to bring together unrelated
mythological factors without regard to reason, and, of course, to
harp on the similarities of numbers. But Page takes this to new and
wonderful heights. For instance, whereas many mystics are content to
compare sets of threes to other sets of threes the Holy Trinity
of Christianity being some manifestation of the Triple Bodhi of
Buddhism or the Triple Goddess of whatever it is that the Triple
Goddess comes from, for instance Page goes on to associate such
threesomes with duality to boot; the Trinity, one learns, is "the
duality represented by the Father and Son with the central beam of
the Holy Spirit or Mother." One has to admit that the whole "Hey,
three is also two plus one!" concept is very helpful in the
mystic's eternal quest to relate all things to all other things,
although I myself was confused to read immediately after this that
"there is one animal that epitomizes the essential qualities
described above: the whale." The whale, it is quickly explained,