Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection [Paperback]

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

Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanilã<