TRTR the Ape of God

[Mark Kohut]

Furthr Google Book Search searching shows that the concept -phrase is used a lotto
describe a relevant TR theme....in Spenser, Artifice vs. Nature in The Garden and Bower of bliss


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The Apocalypse in English Renaissance thought and literature: ... - Google Books Result
C. A. Patrides, Joseph Anthony Wittreich- 1984 - 452 pages
Diabolus simius Dei is no less an elemental aspect of the conception of Satan in 
Paradise Lost than it is of the vision of Antichrist in the Book of Revelation. ...


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Seems the more popular Lewis, C.S. used the concept and phrase also: From Tertullian
 
Same, footnote, explains Lewis's Latin phrase, Diabolus simius Dei, as a quotation from Tertullian, "the devil is the ape of God." Lewis made the antichrist figure ...

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In an earlier post I alluded to a satirist similar to Gaddis, Wyndham Lewis, whose
most famous book may be The Ape of God.
 
There is an ape in the God-fearing family in The Recognitions. 
 
Seems the concept-phrase was quite popular once, with Tillyard [Elizabethan World-
Picture, orig 1942] writing of Milton's Comus "He is the ape of God, repeating but distorting
the cosmic ecstasies of the theologians" quoting these lines as emblematic:
'But all to please and sate the curious taste" [after a quatrain about God's bounty] 
 
And, mike bailey's recent fave, Chesterton wrote" Magic was the abuse of preternatural powers 
by lower agents whose work was preternatural but not supernatural; it was founded on the profound
maxim of 'diabolus simius Dei; the Devil is the apr of God.....[later] 'the acts of saints and heroes,
are always acts of restora tion.".............................
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