A Map of the Runner's Route

<p>In <em>A Map of the Runner's Route</em> the NASA astronaut becomes like Christ both the goal of the poet's hermetic opus and a solar symbol of the Self. As Andrew Murray emphasizes in <em>The Spirit of Christ</em> each believer must learn to know that there is a holiest of all in that temple which he himself is; the secret place of the most high within us must become the central truth in our temple worship (160). Thus the spiritual inner and complete man-the long-sought or sought-after believer-priest of Isaiah 62.12-is not only Christ but also the bride of Christ the shaman that wives (Posthuman l. 24). In truth New Heaven's hierophant is none other than the indescribable and super-empirical totality that is partly empirical partly transcendental (C. G. Jung<em> Mysterium Coniunctionis</em> 536). Still for many readers the link to New Heaven-Both male and female Christ without remorse (Link l. 23)-may seem as elusive as a wordless thought (The Location of Earth l. 16). Nevertheless as the NASA astronaut attests through the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit I hold Transcendence captive in my hand (Self-Recollection l. 8). </p><p></p>