Fw: Pynchon, Dante and Divine Light

[Dave Monroe]

On 1/4/08, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 4, 2008 11:25 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > We know TRPjr. has read Dante.
> > God as light is an old metaphor---which may go back to Dante.!
>
> It goes back a little further...
>
> 1 John 1:5 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and
> declare unto you, that GOD IS LIGHT, and in him is no darkness at all.

"... Judaism, Christianity, and Islam retain the peculiar stamp of
Zoroastrian messianism upon them.  Zoroaster's god, Ahura Mazda, Lord
of Light and Wisdom ...." --Harold Bloom, Omens of Millenium