"A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor …
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: "A Direct Apprehension of Reality": Cormac McCarthy and the Perennial Philosophy -- 1: "Terra Damnata": The Anticosmic Mysticism of Blood Meridian -- 2: "Suzerain of the Earth": Unravelling the Mystery of the Ju…
This book looks at the esoteric philosophical influences on six of Cormac McCarthy's novels. The author offers a fresh approach, investigating the relationship between Gnosticism, a system of thought that sees the cosmos as evil and holds that the human spirit must strive for li…
"A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor …