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... called his books Prophetic Books . ' By the word Prophet ' he did not mean one who foretells the future . He believed that true Prophets were simply poets who beheld the eternal truths by power of Imagination . In their moments of ...
... called his books Prophetic Books . ' By the word Prophet ' he did not mean one who foretells the future . He believed that true Prophets were simply poets who beheld the eternal truths by power of Imagination . In their moments of ...
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... called ' Daughters of Memory . ' Obviously , such a people , who took Reason for the supreme ideal , who ignored Inspiration and called it Madness , and who tried to make art logical , could not be great artists . And what had they ...
... called ' Daughters of Memory . ' Obviously , such a people , who took Reason for the supreme ideal , who ignored Inspiration and called it Madness , and who tried to make art logical , could not be great artists . And what had they ...
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... called ' Druid . ' Adam was a Druid , and Noah ; also Abraham was called to succeed the Druidical age , which began to turn allegoric and mental signification into corporeal command , whereby human sacrifice would have depopulated the ...
... called ' Druid . ' Adam was a Druid , and Noah ; also Abraham was called to succeed the Druidical age , which began to turn allegoric and mental signification into corporeal command , whereby human sacrifice would have depopulated the ...
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