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Page 336
... serpent is a very old symbol of eternity . Blake's use of the serpent as a symbol varies only too often . Line 55. Cf. Revelation xii . 4. Enitharmon , as we shall see later , represents , among other things , Space . Orc is leading ...
... serpent is a very old symbol of eternity . Blake's use of the serpent as a symbol varies only too often . Line 55. Cf. Revelation xii . 4. Enitharmon , as we shall see later , represents , among other things , Space . Orc is leading ...
Page 344
... Serpent to Blake meant , funda- mentally , Materialism . An extension of this meaning is in his use of the Serpent to represent Priesthood ( the Serpent teaching Good and Evil , thus driving man from Eden ; also we must remember the ...
... Serpent to Blake meant , funda- mentally , Materialism . An extension of this meaning is in his use of the Serpent to represent Priesthood ( the Serpent teaching Good and Evil , thus driving man from Eden ; also we must remember the ...
Page 348
... Serpent of Materialism , whose circular folds suggest the Everlasting of Nature . This Serpent is the result of the Creation of the preceding plate . A very spirited ink - sketch owned by Mr. J. P. Morgan is an earlier , rejected design ...
... Serpent of Materialism , whose circular folds suggest the Everlasting of Nature . This Serpent is the result of the Creation of the preceding plate . A very spirited ink - sketch owned by Mr. J. P. Morgan is an earlier , rejected design ...
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