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... 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 ...
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... 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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THE INEFFABLE SECRET | 1 |
THE TEMPORAL BLAKE III | 13 |
IMPERISHABLE SKETCHES | 25 |
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