Abstract:
In her obituary for her lover, Franz Kafka, Milena Jesenská
sketched a modern Gnostic, a writer whose vision was of the
kenoma, the cosmic emptiness into which we have been thrown
Description:
In Gnosticism, there is an alien, wholly transcendent God,
and the adept, after considerable difficulties, can find the way
back to presence and fullness. Gnosticism therefore is a
religion of salvation, though the most negative of all such
saving visions.
