God's Metaphor in History

The enemies of Gnosis were and are triumphant, but only in the organizational and political sense. Historically they [Babylon, Rome] seem to have won, but all victories over the spirit remain forever equivocal, and the spark or deepest self is never quite snuffed out.
- Harold Bloom, Omens of the Millennium

The history of the Jewish people is God's metaphor for Gnosis.

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