About the GuestĪ professor of English at Yale University, John Rogers is the author of Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton, a book awarded prizes by the Milton Society of America and the Modern Language Association. Rogers recently visited BYU where he delivered a Maxwell Institute Guest Lecture called “Latter-Day Milton: Early Mormonism and the Political Theologies of Paradise Lost.” You can check that lecture out on the Institute’s YouTube channel.
In this episode, Yale professor of English John Rogers discusses parallels and differences between Joseph Smith’s revelations and John Milton’s theology. Milton also held some controversial views on the nature of the godhead, creation, and even polygamy. Something like twenty editions of Paradise Lost were produced in America during the first half of the nineteenth century, which is right when Mormonism came on the scene. His epic poem Paradise Lost was a bestseller.
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Milton’s embrace of liberal individualism, meritocracy, and his championing of the right to free speech made him an easy sell to anti-British Americans. (N)’s step is great, that he may traverse the sky.Americans in the early nineteenth century loved the writing of John Milton. "(N) will not be resisted at any place he goes, (N) will not be hindered at any place he desires to be. "Satanism is the position opposed to the worship of the force that brought the cosmos into existence as mind and matter out of the realm of pure spirit." - Herbert Sloane “Evil and Good are things in their own essence, And not made good or evil by the Giver But if he gives you good––so call him if Evil springs from him, do not name it mine… One good gift has the fatal apple given,–– Your reason:––let it not be overswayed By tyrannous threats to force you into faith 'Gainst all external sense and inward feeling: Think and endure,––and form an inner world In your own bosom––where the outward fails So shall you nearer be the spiritual Nature.” – Lucifer, Lord Byron’s Cain: A Mystery “Remember all ye that existence is pure joy that all the sorrows are but as shadows they pass & are done but there is that which remains.” Book of the Law, II:9 And not yet is this order absolute, though oft it may have been supposed thus by man in his innocence.” – The Diabolicon “And after uncounted ages of this great ferment, a force fused to focus that became God, and this force presumed to effect not the creation of substance and energy - for these transcended this God - but the conformation of all the Universe to a single and supreme order. “I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.” – Tool, Lateralus “The fall of the Great Bear and Draco proved to be the creation of Hell.” – Kenneth Grant The haunted wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines, and they linger around the sinister monoliths on uninhabited islands.” – HP Lovecraft, Picture in the House They climb to the moonlit towers of ruined Rhine castles, and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in Asia. For them are the catacombs of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. “Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.” – Marilyn Manson I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in.
I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. “I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. “Others consist of beliefs, I consist of doubts.” - Zdzislaw Beksiński They claim their labors are to build a heaven, yet their heaven is populated with horrors.” – Dr. “I am tired of earth, these people, tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. “I tell you this: no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.” – Jim Morrison
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R.
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