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Lilith enters Jewish and Christian mythology as a bit of a rounding error. Because the Bible offers two clashing tales of creation--Adam and his partner are first having been described as simultaneously generated from the earth and only later is the more famous story about Eve drawn from Ada's rib recounted--Lilith was introduced as a means of correcting such an obvious disjuncture.
— Mar 15, 2026 11:29AM
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Bacon has been the victor over Dee, for while the latter may have concurred with Marlowe's Faustus that "necromantic books, are heavenly," the former had the benefit of results. Wizards like Dee held to a faith that from their scrying mirror they were speaking to angels, that Enochian truths were imparted through arcane rituals, but Baconian empiricism led to the entire technological revolution.
— Mar 20, 2026 02:43PM
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Paradise Regained is an epic which reads as if it were written by a Puritan, a triumph not of the purple but of the plain. Milton's second great epic sings "not of arms/But to vanquish by wisdom hellish wiles." Any attempt at temptation which Satan makes to Christ--neither appeals to pride, power, or knowledge are capable of swaying Jesus from his mission--fails.
— Mar 14, 2026 04:13PM
