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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
Contents
THE TEMPORAL BLAKE | 13 |
IMPERISHABLE SKETCHES | 25 |
LUNAR BURLESQUE | 32 |
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Ahania America Angel appears become Beulah Bible Blake body Book Book of Los Book of Urizen Bromion Chapter Christ clouds Commentary copy Creation 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 Gates Hayley Heaven and Hell human illustrations Imagination Inspiration Jakob Böhme Jerusalem Jesus Job's Last Judgment later Line Luvah Marriage of Heaven material Milton Moral mystical Nature never Night nude Oothoon Palamabron Paradise passage Passion philosophy Pity plate poem Poet Poetic Poetry Rahab Reason Religion repeated represents Revolution Rintrah Satan Selfhood sense serpent Shadow sleep Songs of Experience Songs of Innocence soul Space Spectre spirit stanza stars Swedenborg symbol Tharmas Thel Theotormon things thou thought Tiriel Tree truth Urizen Urthona Vala verse VIII vision woman wrath wrote