10-21-2023, 07:12 AM
Harold Bloom is a Romantic Critic, he is a Myth-Maker of his own Myth, influenced by Frye. He is bombastic and agonistic, like Nietzsche. He is straightforward with his views, in an Emersonian sense. He's a neurotic Jew, haunted by the Godhead of his Familial and Cultural Tradition, and plays the game of Freud.
A Realist in the Freud contra Jung sense. He is for Poetry what A. Crowley is for Magick. They are synthesizers and myth-makers. Both base their Filing Cabinet-like Imagination on the Tree of Life.
What Bloom describes as Genius in his book by that name is what Crowley refers to as the Holy Guardian Angel.
This idea of the Word as Generative, the Creative, is the same thing as the True Will in Magick. This Word of God that is mentioned in Genesis and the Gospel of John is the Emergence of a Symbolic Cultural-Social Reality from Silence. The Tradition of Judaism took YHVH as Genius for a whole People. Even Jesus took YHVH as his Genius. Bloom did, too, in the Jacobian Agonistic Way. Nietzsche also, playing the Antichrist. And Crowley subverted this, claiming each his/her own Holy Guardian Angel/God.
This Word/Will is Genius. This is Emerson's Self-Reliance. This is what U. G. Krishnamurti means by "singing his song". Speaking his Word.
This is still within the framework of the Genesis Myth.
And this "psychic violence" that Bloom mentions is what is referred to by Crowley as Choronzon.
This is all Romantic stuff.
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Bloom is Gnostic and Crowley is Hermetic. Bloom seeks Wisdom through Knowledge: Gnana Yoga. Crowley seeks Wisdom beyond Knowledge: Raja Yoga.
For me, Fire is Magic, Poetry is Water, Air is Humor and Healing, Earth is doing things: I Perform a Ritual, Write a Poem, Tell a Joke, Have an Adventure.
Bloom wrote Essays and Crowley wrote Sacred Texts in the Way that Blake wrote Prophetic Books.
I read these things the way I watch Ingmar Bergman movies and Twin Peaks episodes and read H. P. Lovecraft stories. They are literal grimoires.
Here, I've been healing my Antrum, Transfiguring the Tendencies, like Genet writing in prison and Artaud in the insane asylum.
Though I have roads and woods and nearby towns, and the folklore that pervades, if I don't get back to my far and wide travels. all is for naught.
Somebody needs to find me a booking agent.
Every time I want to burn the Bible, I'm grabbed, like the Angel of the Lord grabbed Abraham, when I see how aesthetically pleasing my Bible looks in my Exorcism/Vampire Hunting kit.
A Realist in the Freud contra Jung sense. He is for Poetry what A. Crowley is for Magick. They are synthesizers and myth-makers. Both base their Filing Cabinet-like Imagination on the Tree of Life.
What Bloom describes as Genius in his book by that name is what Crowley refers to as the Holy Guardian Angel.
This idea of the Word as Generative, the Creative, is the same thing as the True Will in Magick. This Word of God that is mentioned in Genesis and the Gospel of John is the Emergence of a Symbolic Cultural-Social Reality from Silence. The Tradition of Judaism took YHVH as Genius for a whole People. Even Jesus took YHVH as his Genius. Bloom did, too, in the Jacobian Agonistic Way. Nietzsche also, playing the Antichrist. And Crowley subverted this, claiming each his/her own Holy Guardian Angel/God.
This Word/Will is Genius. This is Emerson's Self-Reliance. This is what U. G. Krishnamurti means by "singing his song". Speaking his Word.
This is still within the framework of the Genesis Myth.
And this "psychic violence" that Bloom mentions is what is referred to by Crowley as Choronzon.
This is all Romantic stuff.
..............................................................................
Bloom is Gnostic and Crowley is Hermetic. Bloom seeks Wisdom through Knowledge: Gnana Yoga. Crowley seeks Wisdom beyond Knowledge: Raja Yoga.
For me, Fire is Magic, Poetry is Water, Air is Humor and Healing, Earth is doing things: I Perform a Ritual, Write a Poem, Tell a Joke, Have an Adventure.
Bloom wrote Essays and Crowley wrote Sacred Texts in the Way that Blake wrote Prophetic Books.
I read these things the way I watch Ingmar Bergman movies and Twin Peaks episodes and read H. P. Lovecraft stories. They are literal grimoires.
Here, I've been healing my Antrum, Transfiguring the Tendencies, like Genet writing in prison and Artaud in the insane asylum.
Though I have roads and woods and nearby towns, and the folklore that pervades, if I don't get back to my far and wide travels. all is for naught.
Somebody needs to find me a booking agent.
Every time I want to burn the Bible, I'm grabbed, like the Angel of the Lord grabbed Abraham, when I see how aesthetically pleasing my Bible looks in my Exorcism/Vampire Hunting kit.