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Omens of Millennium

The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection

Author Harold Bloom
Paperback
$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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