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There has been considerable interest in apocrypha and interpretive religion in modern times, and maybe that's because we're much more curious about colloquial communications about 'shared religious space.' That makes sense, since we're much more involved in networking, as networks have developed greatly (and hence contact between many peoples) since the days of European colonialization and the New World.
Imagine then that an eager apocrypha detective named Stan is investigating the heresy and censorship parameters of the apocrypha-oriented Roman Polanski film The Ninth Gate, which looks at a corrupt book-dealer's suspicious quest for a mysterious Satanic book, a quest which takes him to the limits of 'permissible sanctity.'
Our hypothetical detective (Stan) decides to travel to Portugal where he is amazed by the Carmo Convent in Lisbon and decides it's a symbolic site for some great metaphysical intrigue. Stan decides that this unusual church, founded by Nuno Alvares Pereira (a man with unusual political and religious ties in the time of Leonor Teles, queen of Portugal), is the site where some deep meditations were made regarding the boundaries of permissible apocrypha and further concludes that there are dark Occult forces surrounding (but not entering!) the sacred Lisbon church where Pereira himself died on Easter Sunday in 1431.
Stan (our curious detective) decides that Pereira had some ruminations with the Occult during a time of great change and calamity in Portugal. Stan believes Pereira must have meditated on the tangibility of Christian euphoria during times of darkness. Stan is curious about the impact of the Delomelanicon and the relevant metaphysical symbolism Polanski seemed to be investigating!
It is interesting to note that apocrypha works represent a general curiosity about 'translated purgatory.'
Isn't that what the modern age of media and networking is all about --- speculative tourism? Perhaps such 'intellectual curiosity' will finally drown out the anathema of terrorism which devastates the tourism industry...
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"Stan enjoyed a delicious Indian lunch at a majestic Indian restaurant in Portugal before continuing on his rather ambitious quest to understand the significance of the Satanic book the Delomelanicon. Stan decided he'd go to Lisbon and look at the atmosphere of the Carmo Convent."
"Stan was a modern-man, but he was also a great fan of Sherlock Holmes and Roman Polanski. Stan decided that his investigations about the hidden metaphysics in great global traffic and tourism made Portugal an ideal place for his detective-quest (since Portugal was such an offbeat but historically-flowery European country)!"
"When Stan enters the Carmo Convent, he is immediately taken by the breath-taking architecture and the way the sun enters through a destroyed roof (crumbled by a great earthquake). Stan realizes that the 'great man' linked to this church (Nuno Alvares Pereira) was surely involved in some great and troubling meditation about the creeping influence of 'worldly-politics' and Occultism-oriented rebelliousness during a great time of crisis in Portugal(!)."
"Stan concludes that the Carmo Convent was some kind of haven for those seeking to detangle and demystify Christian rhetoric in a time of change in Portugal and was therefore a church were Pereira could ideally meditate on the dangerous face of darkness in times of intrigue and how it would transform world spiritualism. Stan hypothesizes that the Carmo Convent and Pereira were part of some of the metaphysics eccentricity alluded to in Polanski's Satanism-controversy film The Ninth Gate."
"Stan decides to go to a Xerox office-building (outside Portugal) and makes dozens of copies of the engravings found in the Delomelanicon translation he picked up in Portugal as well as general engravings of riddling mystery found in the works of Aristidem Torchia. Stan thanks God for the modern marvel of Xerox and tells the executives at the Xerox office-building that their help in his work would not be forgotten by archaeologists..."
"When Stan returns to America, to his apartment in Manhattan, he finds that someone anonymous has placed in his mailbox numerous home-made paintings of the fictional American comic book anti-heroine Poison Ivy (DC Comics), a beautiful and dangerous eco-terrorist. Stan wonders why someone would want to place Poison Ivy paintings in his mailbox. He then reads the news-headline of a terrible eco-terrorist attack carried out by a mysterious group in Portugal(!). Stan realizes that he's being warned by this same group not to investigate the Delomelanicon any further. He wonders if Poison Ivy's eco-terrorism symbolism is somehow 'connected' to the apocrypha-stimulation 'surrounding' the Carmo Convent."
"Stan decides the Poison Ivy paintings are an omen for him to cease his detective-quest. He goes to a NYU library and begins learning about the history of monasteries in North America and how their development is surely connected to the development of metaphysical flowery in the New World since the days of the British Empire. Stan has come a long way now since his days investigating Pereira, the Carmo Convent, and the Delomelanicon! He still wonders, however, if all this academic work in Portugal actually led him to glimpse something...evil...about politically-loaded spiritual art/aesthetics (e.g., Poison Ivy!)."
GOD: Stan has learned a great deal...
SATAN: It seems he really began 'understanding' apocrypha-imagination.
GOD: I'm sure you're a fan of Polanski...
SATAN: Well, I liked The Ninth Gate, and I appreciated Stan's fascination!
GOD: So who sent him those Poison Ivy painting omens?
SATAN: The same group responsible for the eco-terrorism in Portugal (of course).
GOD: Do you know that for certain?
SATAN: Does it matter?
GOD: I suppose it does not; terrorism is still simply terrorism.
SATAN: Correct; there's no real reason to make all kinds of speculations!
GOD: Why then is Stan so darn curious about the 'role' of apocrypha?
SATAN: For the same reason Polanski made The Ninth Gate --- networks.
GOD: So, all kinds of apocrypha and Occultism are now 'fascinating'(?).
SATAN: That's the real impact of modern globalization.
GOD: I suppose America elected a celebrity-president (Trump) to embrace this 'media age.'
SATAN: Yes; nothing should be considered censorship-worthy in times of communication.
GOD: This is the greatest age of communication and networking.
SATAN: Isn't that why the new horror-film Ouija is appealing?
GOD: Yes, everyone's an 'amateur knight' these days it seems...
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Imagine then that an eager apocrypha detective named Stan is investigating the heresy and censorship parameters of the apocrypha-oriented Roman Polanski film The Ninth Gate, which looks at a corrupt book-dealer's suspicious quest for a mysterious Satanic book, a quest which takes him to the limits of 'permissible sanctity.'
Our hypothetical detective (Stan) decides to travel to Portugal where he is amazed by the Carmo Convent in Lisbon and decides it's a symbolic site for some great metaphysical intrigue. Stan decides that this unusual church, founded by Nuno Alvares Pereira (a man with unusual political and religious ties in the time of Leonor Teles, queen of Portugal), is the site where some deep meditations were made regarding the boundaries of permissible apocrypha and further concludes that there are dark Occult forces surrounding (but not entering!) the sacred Lisbon church where Pereira himself died on Easter Sunday in 1431.
Stan (our curious detective) decides that Pereira had some ruminations with the Occult during a time of great change and calamity in Portugal. Stan believes Pereira must have meditated on the tangibility of Christian euphoria during times of darkness. Stan is curious about the impact of the Delomelanicon and the relevant metaphysical symbolism Polanski seemed to be investigating!
It is interesting to note that apocrypha works represent a general curiosity about 'translated purgatory.'
Isn't that what the modern age of media and networking is all about --- speculative tourism? Perhaps such 'intellectual curiosity' will finally drown out the anathema of terrorism which devastates the tourism industry...
====
"Stan enjoyed a delicious Indian lunch at a majestic Indian restaurant in Portugal before continuing on his rather ambitious quest to understand the significance of the Satanic book the Delomelanicon. Stan decided he'd go to Lisbon and look at the atmosphere of the Carmo Convent."
"Stan was a modern-man, but he was also a great fan of Sherlock Holmes and Roman Polanski. Stan decided that his investigations about the hidden metaphysics in great global traffic and tourism made Portugal an ideal place for his detective-quest (since Portugal was such an offbeat but historically-flowery European country)!"
"When Stan enters the Carmo Convent, he is immediately taken by the breath-taking architecture and the way the sun enters through a destroyed roof (crumbled by a great earthquake). Stan realizes that the 'great man' linked to this church (Nuno Alvares Pereira) was surely involved in some great and troubling meditation about the creeping influence of 'worldly-politics' and Occultism-oriented rebelliousness during a great time of crisis in Portugal(!)."
"Stan concludes that the Carmo Convent was some kind of haven for those seeking to detangle and demystify Christian rhetoric in a time of change in Portugal and was therefore a church were Pereira could ideally meditate on the dangerous face of darkness in times of intrigue and how it would transform world spiritualism. Stan hypothesizes that the Carmo Convent and Pereira were part of some of the metaphysics eccentricity alluded to in Polanski's Satanism-controversy film The Ninth Gate."
"Stan decides to go to a Xerox office-building (outside Portugal) and makes dozens of copies of the engravings found in the Delomelanicon translation he picked up in Portugal as well as general engravings of riddling mystery found in the works of Aristidem Torchia. Stan thanks God for the modern marvel of Xerox and tells the executives at the Xerox office-building that their help in his work would not be forgotten by archaeologists..."
"When Stan returns to America, to his apartment in Manhattan, he finds that someone anonymous has placed in his mailbox numerous home-made paintings of the fictional American comic book anti-heroine Poison Ivy (DC Comics), a beautiful and dangerous eco-terrorist. Stan wonders why someone would want to place Poison Ivy paintings in his mailbox. He then reads the news-headline of a terrible eco-terrorist attack carried out by a mysterious group in Portugal(!). Stan realizes that he's being warned by this same group not to investigate the Delomelanicon any further. He wonders if Poison Ivy's eco-terrorism symbolism is somehow 'connected' to the apocrypha-stimulation 'surrounding' the Carmo Convent."
"Stan decides the Poison Ivy paintings are an omen for him to cease his detective-quest. He goes to a NYU library and begins learning about the history of monasteries in North America and how their development is surely connected to the development of metaphysical flowery in the New World since the days of the British Empire. Stan has come a long way now since his days investigating Pereira, the Carmo Convent, and the Delomelanicon! He still wonders, however, if all this academic work in Portugal actually led him to glimpse something...evil...about politically-loaded spiritual art/aesthetics (e.g., Poison Ivy!)."
GOD: Stan has learned a great deal...
SATAN: It seems he really began 'understanding' apocrypha-imagination.
GOD: I'm sure you're a fan of Polanski...
SATAN: Well, I liked The Ninth Gate, and I appreciated Stan's fascination!
GOD: So who sent him those Poison Ivy painting omens?
SATAN: The same group responsible for the eco-terrorism in Portugal (of course).
GOD: Do you know that for certain?
SATAN: Does it matter?
GOD: I suppose it does not; terrorism is still simply terrorism.
SATAN: Correct; there's no real reason to make all kinds of speculations!
GOD: Why then is Stan so darn curious about the 'role' of apocrypha?
SATAN: For the same reason Polanski made The Ninth Gate --- networks.
GOD: So, all kinds of apocrypha and Occultism are now 'fascinating'(?).
SATAN: That's the real impact of modern globalization.
GOD: I suppose America elected a celebrity-president (Trump) to embrace this 'media age.'
SATAN: Yes; nothing should be considered censorship-worthy in times of communication.
GOD: This is the greatest age of communication and networking.
SATAN: Isn't that why the new horror-film Ouija is appealing?
GOD: Yes, everyone's an 'amateur knight' these days it seems...
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