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:. . . .[http://tinyurl.com/26788e '''She'''] [http://tinyurl.com/yw3xy8 '''knew'''] that the [http://www.bookpalace.com/acatalog/ParkerSailor.jpg '''sailor'''] had [http://www.pixelslide.com/hv319.jpg '''seen worlds'''] no other man had [http://www.adcawards.org/images/ADC86CFE.jpg '''seen'''] if only because there was that [http://www.meta-religion.com/Esoterism/images/circleeng.gif '''high magic'''] to [http://tinyurl.com/32wvoh '''low puns'''], because [http://tinyurl.com/e7hk2 '''DT's'''] must give access to [http://tf.nist.gov/phase/Properties/Properties_images/Image5.gif '''dt's'''] of [http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/img/20/stellar_spectra_3.jpg '''spectra'''] [http://www.arc.cmu.edu/cmu/images/student_work/featured/beyond_6lg.jpg '''beyond'''] the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3999 '''known'''] [http://www.plotinus.com/gnostic_jesus.htm '''sun'''], [http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=25641 '''music'''] made [http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/resources/Rego/PurificationAtTheTemple.jpg '''purely'''] of [http://www.galleryone.com/images/bateman/bateman-antarctic-evening-humpback-whales.jpg '''Antarctic loneliness'''] and [http://www.phobos-deimos.com/Cthulhu/cthulhu.jpg '''fright''' ]. . . .

I suppose the first reasonable question is "'''What is High Magic?'''", [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_magic '''''High Magic'''''] being one of those terms we generally assume we already know, the bulk of the readers skimming right past that phrase even though they've never really had the acquaintance of a practioneer, much less participate in a Magick ritual, either high or low. [https://westervillelibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13432572 '''''High Magic'''''] is magic that seeks contact with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinity '''''Divine'''''], one could also look at it as a form of [http://www.gnosis.org/ '''''Gnosis''''']. "High Magic" is one of the biggest themes in all of Pynchon's books, all aspects of Magic high and low are explored. The number and density of references to magic increase in his output, culminating in the constantly shifting magical realism of [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''''Against the Day'''''].  But, quite frequently in Thomas Pynchon's output, there's a [http://www.markforrester.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/the_latest_on_my_mothers_weed.jpg '''''Home-Grown'''''] word [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca '''''Wicca'''''] that can be [http://www.paralumun.com/crystalscry.htm '''''Scryed'''''] in the [http://www.spellsandmagic.com/spells.html '''''Spells'''''] and [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/twisted '''''Twisted'''''] [http://www.shamanschool.com/resources/courses/howtostudy.html '''''Spelllings'''''] of the [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=g&p=6 '''''Gnarly'''''] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology '''''Etymological'''''] roots he digs up like some [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06052b.htm '''''Witch Doctor'''''] and re-twists into his novels.

The [http://tinyurl.com/2snsm6 '''High Magic'''] of [http://tinyurl.com/2xpet7 '''Angelic Language'''] must be declaimed---[http://www.esotericarchives.com/dee/tfr/tfr2.htm '''Cried'''] is one way to put it---very carefully, with a great and awful [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/locution '''locution]. . . .

From an [http://tinyurl.com/2qtx5f '''Unsigned'''] article on [http://www.maybelogic.org/maybequarterly/06/images/Figure5.jpg '''Enochian'''] calls:

:". . . .Pronunciation proves a problem for the scholar of Enochian. Since the language was only ever really used by Dee and Kelley in its true and correct form, we have only a vague idea of how it was actually spoken. Aleister Crowley of the Golden Dawn fame, proposed a system of pronunciation which took each individual letter as a single sound. This is explained by Sapere Aude (William Wynn Wescott- also of the Golden dawn):

::''In pronouncing the Names, take each letter separately. M is pronounced Em; N is pronounced En (also Nu, since in Hebrew the vowel following the equivalent letter Nun is 'u'); A is Ah; P is Peh; S is Ess; D is Deh.''
::

::''NRFM is pronounced En-Ra-Ef-Em or En-Ar-Ef-Em. ZIZA is pronounced Zod-ee-zod-ah. ADRE is Ah-deh-reh or Ah-deh-er-reh. TAAASD is Teh-ah-ah-ah-ess-deh. AIAOAI is Ah-ee-ah-oh-ah-ee. BDOPA is Beh-deh-oh-peh-ah. BANAA is Beh-ah-en-ah-ah. BITOM is Beh-ee-to-em or Beh-ee-teh-oo-em. NANTA is En-ah-en-tah. HCOMA is Heh-co-em-ah. EXARP is Eh-ex-ar-peh.''


The [http://tinyurl.com/2g683a '''Word'''] must be spoken with the greatest imaginable specificity:

::. . . .The second section is my attempt to rewrite the Calls into some sort of standardized, readable phonetic system. One thing became evident in this process: the pronunciation guide given by Donald Laycock in his Complete Enochian Dictionary is the closest thing to Dee's notes I've seen so far. . . .

::. . . .The angels themselves are no help here:

::Dee: '''''I pray you, is Mozod a word of three letters, or of five?'''''

::Nalvage: '''''In wrote three, it is larger extended.''''' [Dee- Z extended is Zod.]

::Dee: '''''Will you pardon me if I ask you another question of this extension?'''''

::Nal.: '''''Say on: Moz in itself signifieth Joy; but Mozod extended, signifieth the Joy of God'''''

::(Causabon, A True and Faithful Relation..., p. 75). . . .


Of course, taking these concepts a touch closer to [http://www.answers.com/topic/terra-firma '''''Terra Firma'''''], or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malkhuth_(Kabbalah) '''''Malkuth'''''] if we want to get [http://www.answers.com/topic/technical '''''Technical'''''] about it,  we note that a glossary for '''''The Crying of Lot 49''''' should also fold in a pronounciation guide that points out homonyms or ''sound-alikes'' in the novella, as this little story is overstuffed with puns, homonyms, mondegreens, acronyms,  and near misses of famous or useful names. Take [http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/sherman24.htm '''Jesus Arrabal'''] as a fine upstanding example of the word games that Thomas Ruggles Pynchon obsessively plays. We all know the name  Jesus,  in addition to being our [http://www.velocity.net/~edju/ '''''Lord and Savior'''''] [http://elitemrp.net/iat/examples/buddychrist.jpg '''''And All That'''''], is also quite a common [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10673c.htm '''Christian Name'''] in predominantly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic '''Catholic'''] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America '''Latin American'''] countries, such as [http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/agordon/pynchon.htm '''Mexico'''], though, as in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes '''''The Big Lebowski'''''] there is a [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/frisson '''frisson'''] of heresy in recontextualizing the religious figure of [http://www.coptic.net/pictures/Tableau.AlphaAndOmega.gif '''Jesus Christ'''] as a [http://www.bowlings-toulouse.com/Ligue/icones/jesus.bmp '''low'''] and [http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ATHEISM/puritans.jpg '''excluded'''] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preterite '''preterite''']. Pynchon's family history again applies here. William Pynchon, founder of Springfield and a source of a lot that goes on in Pynchon the younger's books, spoke of Jesus Christ as closer to man, closer to those that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_(Calvinism) '''Calvinist Elect'''] saw as excluded from Christ's kingdom. I can't tell you why Our Beloved Author takes up this theme so many times, but it is made explicit in the form of William Slothrop's banned and burned book [http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3928/pns554.html '''''On Preterition'''''], a fictional book folded into [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=William_Slothrop '''''Gravity's Rainbow''''']. [http://www.drbilllong.com/Words/Preterition.html '''''Preterition'''''] is, of course, one of the most frequently used terms in Pynchon's writing, displaying the author's great depth of knowledge on spiritual topicks including the history of the Calvinists and their impact on [http://reformed-theology.org/html/issue06/calvin.htm '''''America'''''], it is a historical thread that the author will return to again and again.

But the [http://tinyurl.com/22ttb4 '''Arrabal'''] part, where did Our Beloved Author find that one and what does it mean? Charles Hollander, in [http://www.vheissu.info/art/art_eng_49_hollander.htm '''''Pynchon, JFK and the CIA: Magic Eye Views of The Crying of Lot 49'''''], points out that [http://www.genarin.org/imagenes/arrabal.jpg '''''Arrabal'''''] translates from Spanish into [http://www.glaucus.org.uk/suburb.JPG '''Suburb''']. Alternatively, it can mean the  [http://www.alanarnette.com/images/guanaco.jpg '''Outlands'''], in the dance of the tango, it's the [http://www.cyber-tango.com/art/t_term.html '''Slums'''], so Jesus Arrabal can also be [http://www.mgilleland.com/images/christ-breadlines.jpg '''''Jesus of the Slums''']. If you say it out loud, it sounds like '''Jesus 'orrible'''. This is not your run-of-the-mill Jesus here.

Then there's Fernando Arrabal, a figure on view but partially obscured in ''The Crying of Lot 49'' much as the satrist [http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/inferno.htm '''Varo'''] reflects on the visual artist  [http://tinyurl.com/29tdf9 '''Remedios  Varo'''].  According to the Wikipedia article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Arrabal '''Fernando Arrabal''']

::Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932 in Melilla, Spain) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet of Spanish origin. He settled in France in 1955. . . .

::. . . .‘’Arrabal’s theatre is a wild, brutal, cacophonous, and joyously provocative world. It is a dramatic carnival in which the carcass of our “advanced” civilizations is barbecued over the spits of a permanent revolution. He is the artistic heir of Kafka’s lucidity and Jarry’s humor; in his violence, Arrabal is related to Sade and Artaud. Yet he is doubtless the only writer to have pushed derision as far as he did. Deeply political and merrily playful, both revolutionary and bohemian, his work is the syndrome of our century of barbed wire and Gulags, a manner of finding a reprieve. . . .’’

This is Jesus the Anarchist, Jesus the Sadist, Jesus of the Preterite,  Jesus of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA '''''C.I.A.'''''] [yet another pun, see a: 119, b: 96 - '''Conjuración de los Insurgentes Anarquistas''' above].  He still recieves his copies of the ancient anarcho-syndicalist paper [http://www.afed.org.uk/org/issue66/reviews.html '''''Regeneración'''''] [http://www.mayoph.com/images2/02c582.jpg '''''Postmarked'''''] with a [http://www.rahoorkhuit.net/library/ceremonial/classics/plancy/g4.gif '''''Muted Posthorn.''''']. This is the Jesus of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Absurd '''''Theater of the Absurd''''']
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