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[novapsyche]

"Between the sensory and the intellectual world, sages always have experienced an intermediate realm, one akin to what we call the imaginings of poets. If you are a religious believer, whether normative or heterodox, this middle world is experienced as the presence of the divine in our everyday world. If you are more skeptical, such presence is primarily aesthetic or perhaps a kind of perspectivism. In this book the sphere between literal and intellectual realities takes its traditional name of the angelic realm, and is described and analyzed as such."
--Harold Bloom, Omens of Millenium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection

(I'm only into the introduction. More quotes to come, I'm sure.)

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[sannion.livejournal.com]

It's an excellent book, that shows how pervasive gnostic thought is in our modern world.