![]() ![]() On this basis, the connecting link between the pre-modern Gnostics and the contemporary Pullman seems to be the heretical William Blake (1757-1827), the successful (pre) Romantic transmitter of Gnosticism in English literature. In this paper I will rely on Renate Lachmann’s hypothesis according to which Romantic literature of the fantastic served to preserve unofficial or forbidden philosophical-theological knowledge. ![]() ![]() Philip Pullman (1946- ) incorporated the alternative memories of the formerly repressed Gnostic traditions into the mythopoesis of His Dark Materials (1995-2000) fantasy trilogy so as to express his antipathy for dogmatized and organized Christianity. In Western culture Judeo-Christianity as the mainstream and Gnosticism with Hellenistic-Jewish roots as its rivalling counter-religion have had different approaches to the Tempter, the Temptation and the Fall of Man. ![]()
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