[Milton-L] angelic knowledge

[Carrol Cox]

Where angels are, there is "heaven." We have two angels who do not know
each other; we have a 'young'(!) angel traveling on his/her/its own
initiative; we have Uriel, while surprised, _not_ asking the cherub why
in hell <g> he is not in his proper place in the  heavenly choir but
instead, after a brief catechism on the ethics of ourist travbel, giving
him the required information.

"The antomy of man is a key to the anatomy of the ape" (Grundrisse) --
and specifically NOT the opposite. That is, beginning with the ape, one
could never reach homo s., the latter _not_ to be explained in terms of
the earlier but the earlier in terms of the later. I suggest that the
novels of Austen and Dickens throw more light on the Uriel episode than
anything in theology.

Carrol

John Leonard wrote:
> 
> But Uriel *is* surprised, and the seeming tourist is not "in Heaven", but in
> the sun, which "seems excess".
> 
> John Leonard
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [Milton-L] angelic knowledge
> 
> >I highly doubt that any angelology can account for a "stripling" cherub
> > wandering alone through the universe, asking another angel for some
> > tourist information. And the fact that the cherub is 'really' Satan is
> > irrelevant: everything in the episode makes it clear that a wandering
> > tourist-cherub is nothing to be surprised at in Milton's Heaven.
> >
> > Carrol
> >
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