Gnostic Apocalypse: Jacob Boehme's Haunted Narrative

Index

Abel, 48, 49, 134 Abraham, 45, 149, 242 n. 48 Adam, 44, 45, 66, 77, 94, 95, 96, 115, 132, 136, 138, 185, 235 n. 5 (and) Christ, 94, 95, 96 fall, 44, 45–6, 66, 94, 95, 132, 136, 167 historical, 45 microcosm, 44 sexual differentiation, 45, 94, 115 Adam Kadmon, 199 adamic language, 4, 44 aesthetics, 18, 19, 180, 182 apocalyptic, 20 Balthasar, 138, 181 Boehme, 34, 180, 182, 184 iconic, 18, 19 metaesthetics, 69 Neoplatonism, 180, 182, 184 Romanticism, 19, 69 agape, 74, 136, 206, 250 n. 59, n. 61 (see eros) agapaic divine, 74, 75, 77, 78, 119, 132, 180, 181, 188, 206 Kabbalah, 202, 206 Neoplatonism, 180–81, 188, 189, 190, 206 agonistics, 80, 85, 113, 116, 121, 146, 183 (see narrative) Agrippa von Nettesheim, 246 n. 29, n. 34 alchemy, 22–3, 58–69, 114–15, 158, 206, 242–43 n. 2, 244 n. 12, 247 n. 39 (see enantidromia, mysterium magnum) archeus, 62, 244–45 n. 21 astrum, 43, 63, 64, 244 n. 15, n. 20 Boehme, 22–3, 24, 29–30, 43, 57, 62, 63, 112, 122, 141, 158 Christ, 64, 76, 122 Christian, 58 cross, 122 Foucault, 22, 29, 59, 244 n. 10 image, 59–60 Jung, 240 n. 27 (and) Kabbalah, 113 medicine, 58, 59 Naturphilosophie, 29 Paracelsus, 21–3, 24, 29, 30, 57, 58–69, 62, 63, 81, 112, 158, 193, 203, 247 n. 39 philosophical, 23, 30 principles, 61, 63, 112 salitter, 114, 240 n. 33, 245 n. 26 signature, 30, 59–60 turba, 64, 241 n. 35 Weigel, 61, 63, 112, 118, 158, 193 yliaster, 62, 63, 64, 66, 94, 245 n. 21 Alexandrian Christianity, 87, 88, 89, 96, 165 allegory, 87, 88, 89, 165, 171, 177 Boehme, 90–92, 104, 107, 165, 171, 177 Althusser, Louis, 274 n. 25 Index Altizer, Thomas, 2, 19, 117, 122, 144, 174 apocalyptic, 12, 174 Bible, 117 Blake, 79, 122 Boehme, 122, 174 Genesis and Apocalypse, 232 n. 42, 251 n. 69 The Genesis of God, 232 n. 42, 251 n. 69 (as) Gnostic, 16, 105 God, 79, 117 Hegel, 122 kenosis, 12, 79 narrative, 18 The New Apocalypse:The Radical Vision of William Blake, 276 n. 13 ontotheology, 18 anaclasis, 123 anagogy, 87, 88 analepsis, 72, 123, 134, 154 (see prolepsis) ananke, 111 andogeny, 44, 45, 115, 149, 152 Anselm, Saint, 42, 261–62 n. 41 ontological argument, 261–62 n. 40 anthropological displacement, 216, 218, 219 apocalypse, 20, 131, 169, 170, 172, 214 Boehme, 170, 171, 172, 212 genres of, 131 Gnostic, 19, 21 Valentinian, 21, 131, 169, 214 apocalyptic, 12, 19, 88, 131, 144–45, 161–75, 178, 187, 191, 208, 211, 222, 252–53 n. 7, 253 n. 8, 266 n. 2, 272 n. 26 aesthetics, 20, 172, 173 Altizer, 12, 174 Aurora, 90, 163 biblical, 20, 88, 169, 171 Boehme, 49, 122, 131, 135, 144, 161–75, 187, 208, 266 n. 2 Christ, 47, 135, 162, 163, 170 Church, 163 distention, 20, 169–75, 212, 233 n. 53 Elias, 90 Enoch, 104, 164, 252–53 n. 7, 266 n. 3, n. 7 eschatology, 162–63 evil, 162, 170 Ezekiel, 161 Ezra, 104, 252 –53 n. 7 first order, 165, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173 genealogy, 161 hermeneutics, 20 iconism, 162, 164, 172 Idealism, 12 inscription, 20, 169–75, 212 Joachim of Fiore, 12, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167–68, 171–73, 266 n. 4, n. 7 literary genre, 162–63 de Lubac, 144–45, 174 Luther, 90, 91, 174 Lutheranism, 90, 91 Melanchthon, 91, 162 modernity, 19 Mysterium Magnum, 163 narrative, 12, 19, 20, 145, 172, 193, 207 New Jerusalem, 42, 162, 163, 170, 171 Reformation, 162 Revelation, 47, 88, 90, 91, 104, 161, 162, 163, 165, 170 Romanticism, 12, 206 second order, 163, 165, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173 Spirit, 163, 164 symbols, 88, 162 taxonomic supplement, 173, 193, 209 (and) Valentinianism, 161–75 enlisting of apocalyptic, 19, 161–75 vision, 88, 161 Weigel, 90, 162 Apollinaris, 96, 97 apophasis, 95, 105, 124, 179, 188, 197 (see kataphasis) apophatic erasure, 55 apophatic language, 32 apophatic theology, 69–71 (see negative theology) Bataille, 80 Boehme, 32, 33, 71, 105, 124, 152 Eckhart, 69–71, 179 (check) 278 Index aporetics of representation, 73, 154, 157, 168, 205–6, 212, 217, 221 Aquinas, Thomas, 71, 73, 74, 119, 141, 249 n. 55 creation, 119, 245 n. 22 (and) Eckhart, 119 God, 73, 119 incarnation, 119...