John the Baptist, Nathan of Gaza, 14
Croix mystique, 16, 484
"Methodist versions of Christ's kingdom" 82
"Salome with the head of John" 82
"Brought up in a Christian ambience" 99
"long tormented by missionaries into a fear of Christian sins" 99
"ancient sun-wheel [of] the early Christians" 100
"Conversion of the Dodoes" 110-11
"[Dodoes] are all brothers now, they and the humans who used to hunt them, brothers in Christ" 111
"in Christ's kingdom, our salvations must be [...] inextricable" 111
"seventh Christmas of the War" 126
Advent, 128, 131
baby Jesus, 131
"New Baby" 133
"only another Messiah" 135
Palm Sunday, 151
"he's been brought up a Christian, a Western European" 153
"Christian love" 155
bugs in the manger, 173-74
"Slothrops packing Bibles around the blue hilltops [...] memorizing chapter and verse the structures of Arks, Temples, Visionary Thrones" 241
"the stain of Original Sin" 263
"items like the 'S-Gerät' Slothrop thinks he's chasing like a grail" 275
"St. Pancratius, St. Servatius, St. Bonifacius, die kalte Sophie" 281
"Christian Europe was always death [...] death and repression" 317
"Baby Jesus Con Game" 318
"an image of a grail slipping through the room, radiant [...] under the very descending arse of the grailseeker" 321
"self-conned as any Christian" 321
"one of the last pockets of Pre-Christian Oneness left on the planet" 321
"Herod myth" 323
"Ndjambi Karunga and the Christian God were too far away" 323
"pierced Jesus" 324
"Did you ever [...] see a man that [...] must be Jesus Christ?" 325
Martin Fierro's return to Christian society, 387
Tower of Babel, 388
"everyone had two shadows: Cain's and Abel's" 394
"In the name of the cathode, the anode, and the holy grid" 404
"Lot's wife" 405
"two shadows, Cain's and Abels" 429
the Archangels, 464
"I think of the A4 [...] as a baby Jesus, with endless committees of Herods out to destroy it in infancy" 464
"the pre Christian earth we fled across" 465
"You and I perhaps have become over the generations so Christianized" 465
"underneath that cheerful mask is the face of a Jonah" 480
"paler than dim commercial Jesus" 490
"these creatures must have held in their time half the Jonahs of falling Europe" 501-02
"the test stands, the stations of the cross" 502
"carried as they must have once packed far overland at night the Grail" 517
"'That's what Jesus meant [...] venturing out on the Sea of Galilee. He saw it from the lemming point of view. Without the millions who had plunged and drowned, there could have been no miracle. The successful loner was only the other part of it: the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle whose shape had already been created by the Preterite, like the last blank space on the table.'" 554
"Jesus was for the elect, Judas Iscariot was for the Preterite. Everything in the Creation has its equal and opposite counterpart. How can Jesus be an exception? Could we feel for him anything but horror in the face of the unnatural, the extracreational? Well, if he is the son of man, and if what we feel is not horror but love, then we have to love Judas too." 555
antinomians, 556
"Might there have been fewer crimes in the name of Jesus, and more mercy in the name of Judas Iscariot?" 556
"prevailing Catholic odor--incense, wax, centuries of mild bleating from the lips of the flock" 558
"Holy Circle and the Rocketfin Cross" 563
"sovereign as the [...] Church of Rome" 566
"Donar hadn't quite been tamed into Saint Peter" 568
"lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic" 587
"'wind' was a middle term, a convention to express what really moved the cross" 620-21
churchtops as rockets, 624
"the mark of consecration, a cross in a circle" 625
"blithering odd bits of Gospel" 639
"Cherrycoke in a Jesus Christ getup" 639
"transsectite" Lutheran, 653
"the closest thing in the Zone to the early Christian" 681
"Garrison-churches echo with starlings" 693
"The white image has the same coherence, the hey-lookit-me smugness, as the Cross does" 694
"[Tchitcherine] takes a heavy bodyguard everywhere he goes. At least a dozen. Orientals mostly [...] fully equipped with Judas Iscariot no doubt" 719
Cathars, 732, 747
Templars, 737
Rosicrucians, 737
"Kabbalists, the Templars, the Rosicrucians" 737-38
"The sacrament of the Eucharist is really drinking the blood of the enemy. The Grail, the Sangraal, is the bloody vehicle" 739
"Gnostic or Cathar symbol for the Church of Rome [...] any System which cannot tolerate heresy [and] must sooner or later fall" 747
"an Aggadic tradition from around the 4th century that Isaac, at the moment Abraham was about to sacrifice him on Moriah, saw the antechambers of the Throne" 749
"The pyrotechnic Cross to light you off" 751
Zundkreuz ("Ignition-Cross"), 751
