The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and BlakeWhat is the creator of the world were evil? What if Christ, the Son, were the antagonist rather than the ally of the Father? Nuttall tracks this subversive theology from the Gnostics of the second century, through its flickering reappearance in Marlowe and Milton, to its full development in Blake. |
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Page 79
... fallen . ' How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , son of the morn- ing ! ' ( Isaiah 14 : 12 ) . Lucifer is one of the names of Satan , but ' Lucifer ' also meant ' light - bearer ' . This is a poem about falling , first the fall ...
... fallen . ' How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , son of the morn- ing ! ' ( Isaiah 14 : 12 ) . Lucifer is one of the names of Satan , but ' Lucifer ' also meant ' light - bearer ' . This is a poem about falling , first the fall ...
Page 83
... fallen Galileo , was looking at his own future . We are reaching the point of deep homologation , and as we do so my own seeming digression from direct engagement with Gnostic heresy is brought home , is subjected in its turn to a ...
... fallen Galileo , was looking at his own future . We are reaching the point of deep homologation , and as we do so my own seeming digression from direct engagement with Gnostic heresy is brought home , is subjected in its turn to a ...
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... fallen will come only from that which is , in some way , already fallen . One is reminded of the time- travel story of the artist who painted boring pictures when young and brilliant pictures when old ; all is explained when we learn ...
... fallen will come only from that which is , in some way , already fallen . One is reminded of the time- travel story of the artist who painted boring pictures when young and brilliant pictures when old ; all is explained when we learn ...
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