"And the real symbolism of the pyramid
is
alchemical, of course. The traditional code represents the three kinds
of sex by a cube, a pyramid, and a sphere. The cube is that travesty we
call 'normal sex, in which the two nervous systems never actually merge
at the orgasm, like the two parallel sides of the cube. The pyramid is
the two coming together and joining, the magical-telepathic orgasm. The
sphere is the Tantric ritual, endlessly prolonged, with no orgasm at
all. The alchemists used that code for over two thousand years. The
Rosicrucians among the founding fathers used the pyramid as a symbol of
their kind of sex magic. Aleister Crowley used that symbol the same way,
more recently. The eye on the pyramid is the two minds meeting.
Neurological interlock. The opening of the Eye of Shiva. Ewige
Schlangekraft—the eternal serpent power. The joining of the Rose and
Cross, vagina and penis, into Rose-Cross. The astral leap. Mind escaping
from physiology."
You silly sons-of-bitches!
You silly sons-of-bitches!
You silly sons-of-bitches!
23. Two and Three. Duality and trinity. Every unity is a duality and a trinity.
Dillinger made contact with the mind of Richard Belz, forty-three-year-old professor of physics at Queens College, as Belz was being loaded into an ambulance to be taken to Bellevue Hospital where X rays would reveal severe skull fractures. Shit, Dillinger thought, why does somebody have to be half dead before I can reach him? Then he concentrated on his message: Two universes flowing in opposite directions. Two together form a third entity which is synergetically more than the sum of its two parts. Thus two always leads to three. Two and Three. Duality and trinity. Every unity is a duality and a trinity. A pentagon. Sheer energy, no matter involved. From the pentagon depend five more pentagons, like the petals of a flower. A white rose. Five petals and a center: six. Two times three. The flower interlocks with another flower just like it, forming a polyhedron made of pentagons. Each such polyhedron could have common surfaces with other polyhedrons, forming infinite latticework based on the pentagonal unit. They would be immortal. Self-sustaining. Not computers. Beyond computers. Gods. All space for their habitation. Infinitely complex.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
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