William Blake, His Philosophy and SymbolsPeter Smith, 1958 - 487 pages |
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Page 140
... Creation all was solitude and chaos . This is the most pernicious idea that can enter the mind , as it takes away all sublimity from the Bible , and limits all existence to creation and chaos - to the time and space fixed by the ...
... Creation all was solitude and chaos . This is the most pernicious idea that can enter the mind , as it takes away all sublimity from the Bible , and limits all existence to creation and chaos - to the time and space fixed by the ...
Page 166
... Creation and Redemption . The principle , mother , and begetter of all generation was Separation ' ( i . 8 ) .1 The first thing separated from God was the Mysterium Magnum ( the First Matter ) , which was unlike everything , and which ...
... Creation and Redemption . The principle , mother , and begetter of all generation was Separation ' ( i . 8 ) .1 The first thing separated from God was the Mysterium Magnum ( the First Matter ) , which was unlike everything , and which ...
Page 278
... creation ? The answer is concealed in the poem . I have already explained the meaning of stars to Blake -that they represented an inferior order of the created world , which is ruled by Reason , or Urizen . In the later books , Blake ...
... creation ? The answer is concealed in the poem . I have already explained the meaning of stars to Blake -that they represented an inferior order of the created world , which is ruled by Reason , or Urizen . In the later books , Blake ...
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Ahania Angel appears become Beulah Bible Blake body Book Book of Los Book of Urizen Bromion Christ Church clouds Commentary copy Daughters of Albion death decoration Divine doctrine earth Emanation engraved 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