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The Alternative Trinity - Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake (Hardcover, New)
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The Alternative Trinity - Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake (Hardcover, New)
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The Trinity of orthodox Christianity is harmonious. The Trinity for
Blake is, conspicuously, not a happy family: the Father and the Son
do not get on. It might be thought that so cumbersome a notion is
inconceivable before the rise of Romanticism but the Ophite
Gnostics of the second century AD appear to have thought that God
the Father was a jealous tyrant because he forbade Adam and Eve to
eat from the Tree of Knowledge and that the serpent, who led the
way to the Tree of Knowledge, was really Christ. This book explores
the possibility of an underground `perennial heresy', linking the
Ophites to Blake. The `alternative Trinity' is intermittently
visible in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and even in Milton's Paradise
Lost. Blake's notorious detection of a pro-Satan anti-poem, latent
in this `theologically patriarchal' epic is less capricious, better
grounded historically and philosophically, than is commonly
realised.
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