The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick

Author:Philip K. Dick
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

[13:46] Pythagoras had a strange cosmogonical belief: a seed (male) inserted into the boundless (female) which then progressively grows by incorporating more and more of the atelos (incomplete or unbounded) into its carefully limited (telos) structure—a process “like inspiration with the boundless called ‘breath.’” This view of careful limitation (boundaries) being the essential basis of kosmos sounds like the linking and arranging I saw Valis doing, and this “seed” sounds like the rational Valis invading the greater (boundless) irrational or non-kosmos. Also the term “kosmos” is used by him to mean an ultimate beauty, more so than order. [...]

I’d say at this point that 3-74 was very Pythagorean.

“... The principle that like is known by like; hence, an understanding of the divine universe would bring man’s nature closer to its own.” “An organic whole, particularly one that like the universe lives forever, must of necessity exhibit limit and order in the highest degree.”

Empedocles: “... for these teachings grow of themselves to be part of the individual character... but if you go after other things, wretched things that blunt the concern for thought, then after some time these teachings will all at once desert you, in their desire to regain their own kindred. For you must know that everything has thought, and a share of intelligence. You shall learn all the medicines that keep all illness and old age—,” etc.

He makes it clear that the revealed Gnosis of Pythagoras is alive. We are dealing with thoughts (e.g., wisdom, knowledge, concepts and ideas) which have thoughts or life of their own, and which decide on their own whom to come to and whom—and when—to depart.

A thought-entity, like Ubik. Has it ever occurred to me that the info—especially the great written pages—which I saw had life and volition of their own, and that they themselves decided to come to me—“like to like”? Decide to come and decide to depart.

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