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... Mystics , like poets , are born to their inheritance , and words of light mean nothing to the blind . Among the great poets , only one other - Dante - has described the Mystical Path . Did he succeed ? It is hard to say . Dante limited ...
... Mystics , like poets , are born to their inheritance , and words of light mean nothing to the blind . Among the great poets , only one other - Dante - has described the Mystical Path . Did he succeed ? It is hard to say . Dante limited ...
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... mystical . But is any one entirely non - mystical ? Blake , with his amazing psychological insight , decided not.1 Indeed , how else can we account for such things as the wide response to the quatrain already quoted : To see a World in ...
... mystical . But is any one entirely non - mystical ? Blake , with his amazing psychological insight , decided not.1 Indeed , how else can we account for such things as the wide response to the quatrain already quoted : To see a World in ...
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... mystical experience which was to be expressed so finely in the Songs of Innocence and Thel . At first , however , Blake was not concerned with the ' spiritual sensation , ' but with the truths which mystical vision revealed to him ...
... mystical experience which was to be expressed so finely in the Songs of Innocence and Thel . At first , however , Blake was not concerned with the ' spiritual sensation , ' but with the truths which mystical vision revealed to him ...
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Ahania America Angel appears become Beulah Bible Blake body Book Book of Los Book of Urizen Bromion Christ Church clouds Commentary copy Creation Daughters of Albion death decoration Divine doctrine earth Emanation Enion Enitharmon error Eternity evil eyes Fall false Felpham Female fire flames flesh Four Zoas Gate Hayley Heaven and Hell human illustration Imagination Inspiration Jakob Böhme Jerusalem Jesus Last Judgment Leutha Line Loins Luvah Marriage of Heaven material Milton Moon mystical Nature never Night nude Oothoon Palamabron Paradise passage Passion philosophy Plate poem Poet Poetic Poetry Proverb Rahab Reason Religion repeated represents Revolution Rintrah Satan Selfhood sense serpent Shadow Songs of Experience Songs of Innocence sons soul Space Spectre spirit stanza stars symbol Tharmas Thel Theotormon things thou thought Tiriel Tree truth Ulro Urizen Urthona Vala verse VIII vision William Blake woman wrath wrote