Picking ourselves up, and doing it all again. Dancing to forget. Singing to remember. While much of this tradition is steeped in the idiom of the Judeo-Christian tradition, as Harold Bloom reminds us, there’s a secret hidden within that secret too. The Arcana Americana is a living hermetical and heretical tradition. It rejects the doctrine of Original Sin—that we are forever cast out East of Eden to suffer and atone. In the place of guilty prostration, the Arcana Americana defiantly claims a second act, a transfiguration based upon the innate perfectibility of humankind. Anthropos, Bloom calls
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