William Blake, His Philosophy and SymbolsPeter Smith, 1958 - 487 pages |
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Page 83
... Gates of Paradise was Blake's first attempt to outline in this way the spiritual life of man . It belongs to the stage of ' Experience , ' for while Blake teaches that we will reach happiness , yet this happiness is in the world beyond ...
... Gates of Paradise was Blake's first attempt to outline in this way the spiritual life of man . It belongs to the stage of ' Experience , ' for while Blake teaches that we will reach happiness , yet this happiness is in the world beyond ...
Page 96
... Gates of Paradise , and even the Visions of the Daughters of Albion are of the period of Experience , ' when Blake saw the world was wrong , and could only con- jecture how to set it right . The French Revolution at least presaged the ...
... Gates of Paradise , and even the Visions of the Daughters of Albion are of the period of Experience , ' when Blake saw the world was wrong , and could only con- jecture how to set it right . The French Revolution at least presaged the ...
Page 441
... gates are closed until the Last Judg- ment ; while the Gates of Eternity are frozen solid . · 12 : 55-56 . Cf. Thomas Vaughan's Anima Magica : Circumferences dilate , and Centres contract ; Superiours dissolve & Inferiours coagulate ...
... gates are closed until the Last Judg- ment ; while the Gates of Eternity are frozen solid . · 12 : 55-56 . Cf. Thomas Vaughan's Anima Magica : Circumferences dilate , and Centres contract ; Superiours dissolve & Inferiours coagulate ...
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Ahania Angel appears become Beulah Bible Blake body Book Book of Los Book of Urizen Bromion Chapter clouds Commentary copy Creation Daughters of Albion death descends Divine doctrine earth Emanation engraved Enion Enitharmon error Eternity evil Experience eyes Fall false Felpham Female fire flames flesh Four Zoas Gates Hayley Heaven and Hell human illustrations Imagination Inspiration Jakob Böhme Jerusalem Jesus Last Judgment Line Luvah Marriage of Heaven material Milton Moon mystical Nature never Night nude Oothoon Palamabron Paradise passage Passion philosophy Plate poem Poet Poetic poetry Prophetic Rahab Reason religion repeated represents Revolution Rintrah Satan seems Selfhood sense serpent Shadow sleep Songs of Experience Songs of Innocence sons soul Space Spectre spirit stanza stars Swedenborg symbol Tharmas Thel Theotormon things thou thought Tiriel Tree truth Urizen Urthona Vala verse vision William Blake woman wrath wrote