Well, since someone replied with 'tell me more': http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/thoughts/gnostic_gospels_and_the_new_age.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Wakely" <cow@compsoc.man.ac.uk> To: "jai nelson" <jai@illitrate.co.uk> Cc: <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [KLF] To reintroduce myself: Martijn
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:02:35PM +0000, jai nelson wrote:
On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 07:52 pm, Martijn Melenhorst wrote:
Ofcourse I have read the Illuminatus Trilogy. Which was quite a bore, actually, since a conspiracy theory like that already exists for years longer than the book, known as the Egyptian/Gnostic religion being suppressed by the Christian religion. Ofcourse THAT really explains the pyramids etc. Wait! I'm drifting off...
does the Gnostic religion also believe in the power of 5??
No, not as far as I know. To say Illuminatus! was nothing new, or is just a re-hash of another theory is missing the point entirely; the whole book was a mish-mash of other ideas, religions, conspiracy theories, historical facts, urban myths, tall tales and jokes, some recalled more accurately than others, some deliberately misinterpreted or obscured. Kinda like your friends and mine, the KLF. Sampled music, borrowed monikers, dubious stories, obscure references and jokes.
because there hasn't been a single person so far i've made read that book that hasn't instantly started seeing the numerology coincidences.
:) I think it was Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst who exclaimed "The more I look for the Law of Fives the truer it becomes!" (or something like that)
and then within months it gets a bit more intense. more me, that was the cool thing about the book. it's more of a virus than literature :) :)
it's a pretty powerful meme, that's for sure
..jai... to whom the words off-topic just mean a chocolate bar past its sell by date (probably a comment that'll only work with UK people)
off-topic? If you can't talk about Illuminatus! on the JAMs list then, er, I guess you shouldn't.
Hail Eris!
-- "You should know that so far as Buddha-nature is concerned, there is no difference beteween an enlightened man and an ignorant one. What makes the difference is that one realizes it, while the other is ignorant of it." - Sutra of Wei-Lang