William Blake, His Philosophy and SymbolsPeter Smith, 1947 - 487 pages |
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... experience is always the same , no matter in what land or level of civilization it occurs . It is above all creeds , for experience must have authority over theory . More than that , Mysticism is the source itself of every creed ; all ...
... experience is always the same , no matter in what land or level of civilization it occurs . It is above all creeds , for experience must have authority over theory . More than that , Mysticism is the source itself of every creed ; all ...
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... Experience . For the Worm comes only in the night of Experience , and in the storm , which is a Blakean symbol for materialism . Blake believed entirely in the love of the Innocent - the pure - minded - which might , and should , reach ...
... Experience . For the Worm comes only in the night of Experience , and in the storm , which is a Blakean symbol for materialism . Blake believed entirely in the love of the Innocent - the pure - minded - which might , and should , reach ...
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... Experience . Here Innocence ( the Angel ) is Ignorance , while Experience ( the Devil ) is Cynicism . The symbolism is therefore slightly different from that of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell . Both Angel and Devil are wrong ; there is ...
... Experience . Here Innocence ( the Angel ) is Ignorance , while Experience ( the Devil ) is Cynicism . The symbolism is therefore slightly different from that of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell . Both Angel and Devil are wrong ; there is ...
Contents
THE INEFFABLE SECRET | 1 |
THE TEMPORAL BLAKE | 13 |
IMPERISHABLE SKETCHES | 25 |
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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 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