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To: Bob Lao-Tse who wrote (39148)	6/5/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

RE: Abraxas & Imperfection ..does anyone here have any information or links on Abraxas? What little I know is from Hesse's Demian. Bob, I have a load of Hesse in my private library -- but no copy of Demian; furthermore, my favorite search engine www.google.com appears to be on the fritz this morning. Let me attempt a preliminary response, anyway. There was/is no Greek god named Abraxas; he is/was a creation of the novel. That is to say, there may have been some minor deity by that name, but it is Hesse's personages who choose to cast him as the symbol of the unity of Good & Evil, Light & Dark, Flesh & Spirit -- in other words, of all those favorite fin-de-siecle antitheses (which endured way into the 20th). I say this with some confidence, having written a doctoral dissertation on one of these antithesis-lovers. (My guy saw Dionysus as the "other face" of Christ.) You can trace the same theme all the way from Ibsen ("Emperor & Galileean") through Kazantsakis. Joan