O rapture, O rapture, O rapture!
I am food, I am food, I am food!
I am an eater of food, I am an eater of food, I am an eater of food!
I am a maker of verses, I am a maker of verses, I am a maker of verses!
I am the first-born of the universal order,
Earlier than the gods, in the navel of immortality!
Whoso gives me away, he, verily, has succoured me!
I who am food, eat the eater of the food!
I have overcome the whole world!
The question what is a body, is the question what is it to eat: Take, eat; this is my body.
Our body is an incorporated body; we are what we eat (man ist was er isst). We are father (mother) eaten. The species is cannibalistic. Erst kommt das Fressen. "I am Saturn who devoured his children because it was foretold that otherwise they would devour him. To eat or be eaten - that is the question." From the point of view of prana, breath, there exists nothing which is not food. "He who meditates on the Universal Self as the measure of the span from earth to heaven, and as identical with the self, eats food in all the world, in all beings, in all selves."
The transubstantiation is the unification; is in the eating; "Just as, in His days on earth, bread and wine taken by Him as food were metabolized into His flesh and blood at digestion." By eating we become his body; eating makes it so.
Transubstantiation - the whole problem of symbolism. Metaphor is really metamorphosis; and the primal form of the sentence is Tat tvam assi, Thou art That; or, of bread and wine, hoc est corpus meum, this is my body.
Communion. The individual (personal, historical) body; the eucharistic body; the corporate (mystical) body. To see these three as one body.
Communion. The unification is in the eating. We are one body because we are all partakers of that one bread. We become one body as we become his body, that is to say bread. We being many are one bread. "They are nourished by one another."
The true human sacrifice is unification: hoc est sacrificium Chistianorum, ut multi unum corpus sint in Christo. It is only as we are eaten that we are unifed by incorporation into his body.
To be human is to be eaten, to be sacrificed. "The Prajapati, in the beginning, created men together with the sacrifice, and said: 'By this shall you multiply. Let this be the Cow of Plenty and yield unto you the milk of your desires.'"
Theis world as sacrifice; this world as food; to be is to eat and to be eaten. The sacrifice is the eating, the crucifixion is the supper. "We are fed by the cross of the Lord, since we eat his body."
The real body. To be real, it must be bodily; and to be a body is to be eaten.
We become one as we become the (sacrificial) food. The sacrifice is the mystical body; which is not offered on behalf of martyrs, since they are themselves that sacrificial body. In the unified body there is no vicarious (representative) sacrifice. The unified body feeds on itself; ut solum corpus Christi ipsisus carene reficiatur. He gives us his body to eat, so that we might be assimilated into his body.
This world as food feeds on itself. The mystical body feeds on itself. Autophagy. The supper as self sacrifice: semetipsus in cena apostolorum immolavit. The supper as autophagy: se cibat ipse cibus; ut nos qui sumus corpus Christi sumamus corpus Christi.
Autophagy. The identity of the eater and what he eats; but in a reversal of the naturalistic view: the eater is changed into what he eats. We become his body, and his body is food. We become his body by becoming food. By being eaten we become food. Cum pascit pascitur, et cum pascitur pascit. The dualism overcome. When every action is sacrifice, then Brahman is the sacrifical act, and Brahman the thing sacrificed; and it is Brahman who does the sacrificing, in the fire which is Brahman.
The true sacrifice is in one's body. "The slave [captive] represents the master's [victor's] body offered to the god, the former being merely a symbol for the latter." The Place of Holy Sacrifice where Friends Die for each other will become the Place of Murder & Unforgiving, Never-awaking Sacrifice of Enemies. "Mahomet slew, Jesus Christ caused his own to be slain." But mostly Mahomet slays. Overcoming the dualism of self and other: the identity of the sacrificer, the victim, and the god. Ipse offerens, ipses et oblatio.
The identity of the sacrificer and the victim: the sacrfice of identity. The last cruel sacrifice is the sacrifice of the separateness or the self; self-sacrifice, self-slaughter, self-annihilation. The last cruel sacrifice is the crucifixion of the self.
Partial incorporation, or total incorporation, integration. "It is possible that we have in the relation between body-images two different types, the one completely integrating his own body-image with the body-image of others, and the other having the various parts of the body-image not integrated into a whole...Summation and integration." Participation (playing a part) or fusion. L'Apocalypse, c'est-a-dire la dissolution de la seir dans le groupe en fusion.