The Anathemata
Sherthursdaye and Venus day (continued)
Not every year is the salvage of so many inhabited places made legitimate loot. Not at every time are the cosmocrats as prodigal or the bleached bodies so many, as now, in this place.
In the wasted land
at jackal-meet
at the division of the spoils
with his hands stretched out
he continues.2
David Jones notes
2 See Extensis manibus prosequitur, the words of the rubric directing the posture of the celebrant at the prayer in the mass beginning Supra quae propitia.
additional notes
DJ note 2: ‘He continues with his hands stretched out’.
see also
Sejanus was described as a cosmocrat on page 187.
comments
Again the relationship between the crucifixion and the mass is brought out. The division of the spoils is the post mortem division of Christ’s clothes. The theme of war continues.