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... mystical vision ; what is a mystical vision ? < In anticipation of a future chapter , it should be explained that Blake never was known to show the slightest belief in the objective reality of any vision . ' Where did you see all that ...
... mystical vision ; what is a mystical vision ? < In anticipation of a future chapter , it should be explained that Blake never was known to show the slightest belief in the objective reality of any vision . ' Where did you see all that ...
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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 ...
Contents
THE INEFFABLE SECRET | 1 |
THE TEMPORAL BLAKE III | 13 |
IMPERISHABLE SKETCHES | 25 |
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