SLSL "TSR" Love and Sleep

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>From Harold Bloom. "Genius, A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary 
Creative Minds," Warner Books, Inc., New York, N.Y. 2002.

Gnosticism: The Religion of Literature: (quote from the "Poimandres"
Hermetist first tract)

    When the man saw in the water the form like himself as
    it was in nature, he loved it and wished to inhabit it; wish
    and action came in the same moment... Even though he is
    immortal... mankind is affected by mortality... although...
    above the cosmic framework, he became a slave within it.
    He is androgyne because he comes from an androgyne
    father, and he never sleeps because he comes from one
    who is sleepless. Yet love and sleep are his masters.[his
    snips]


"This is a Narcissistic rather than an Oedipal Creation-Fall,
Platonic rather Judeo-Christian, and is akin to Emerson's
'Self-Reliance,' where the oldest and best aspects of the self
are seen as not being part of nature. Ancient Gnosticism
named these elements in the self as the 'pneuma,' authentic
spirit or breath, the true person." (xvii-xviii)

respecfully