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Omens of Millennium
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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

About the Author

Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare- The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, and The American Religion. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, and the Alfonso Reyes International Prize of Mexico. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and in New York City.

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