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    Omens of Millennium

    The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection

    Author Harold Bloom
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    $24.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Riverhead Books
    On sale Oct 01, 1997 | 272 Pages | 9781573226295
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    In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of Millennium traces these cultural phenomena from their ancient and traditional origins to their present-day, millennial manifestations. In addition, it is a personal account of Bloom's Gnosticism. Certain to educate, challenge, and entertain, Omens of Millennium is as fascinating as it is timely.
    Introduction
    Prelude: Self-Reliance or Mere Gnosticism

    I. Angels
    Visions of Angels
    Their Current Debasement
    Metatron, Who Was Enoch
    The Catholic Angels Hierarchy
    The Fallen Angels
    Angels, Miracles, and America

    II. Dreams
    The Answering Angel
    The Nature of Dreams
    Sigmund Freud's Dream Book
    Prophecy and Dreams

    III. Not Dying
    The "Near-Death Experience"
    Shamanism: Otherworldly Journeys
    The Astral Body: The Zelem
    Immortality and Resurrection
    The Resurrection Body

    IV. Gnosis
    The Hermetic Corpus: Divine Man
    Christian Gnosticism: Valentinus and Resurrection
    Sufism: Angel of Earth and Garment of Light
    The Kabbalah: Metatron, the Lesser Yahweh
    The Kabbalah: Luria's Transmigration of Souls

    V. Millennium
    American Centuries
    Gnosis of the World to Come

    Coda: Not by Faith, Nor by the Angels: A Gnostic Sermon

    Acknowledgments

    © Gregory Botts
    HAROLD BLOOM lived in New Haven and was a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Before that, he was Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include Possessed by Memory, The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The American Religion, and The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime. He was a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, and Mexico's Alfonso Reyes International Prize. He lived in New Haven until his death on October 14, 2019, at the age of eighty-nine. View titles by Harold Bloom

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    In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of Millennium traces these cultural phenomena from their ancient and traditional origins to their present-day, millennial manifestations. In addition, it is a personal account of Bloom's Gnosticism. Certain to educate, challenge, and entertain, Omens of Millennium is as fascinating as it is timely.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Prelude: Self-Reliance or Mere Gnosticism

    I. Angels
    Visions of Angels
    Their Current Debasement
    Metatron, Who Was Enoch
    The Catholic Angels Hierarchy
    The Fallen Angels
    Angels, Miracles, and America

    II. Dreams
    The Answering Angel
    The Nature of Dreams
    Sigmund Freud's Dream Book
    Prophecy and Dreams

    III. Not Dying
    The "Near-Death Experience"
    Shamanism: Otherworldly Journeys
    The Astral Body: The Zelem
    Immortality and Resurrection
    The Resurrection Body

    IV. Gnosis
    The Hermetic Corpus: Divine Man
    Christian Gnosticism: Valentinus and Resurrection
    Sufism: Angel of Earth and Garment of Light
    The Kabbalah: Metatron, the Lesser Yahweh
    The Kabbalah: Luria's Transmigration of Souls

    V. Millennium
    American Centuries
    Gnosis of the World to Come

    Coda: Not by Faith, Nor by the Angels: A Gnostic Sermon

    Acknowledgments

    Author

    © Gregory Botts
    HAROLD BLOOM lived in New Haven and was a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Before that, he was Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include Possessed by Memory, The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The American Religion, and The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime. He was a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, and Mexico's Alfonso Reyes International Prize. He lived in New Haven until his death on October 14, 2019, at the age of eighty-nine. View titles by Harold Bloom

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