Blake was absolutely certain and sincere in everything he wrote. He believed in the sacred value of honesty. The idea of insincerity or uncertainty was anathema to him.
The man was a kabbalist! Read up on the "Sifting Times". In the praise of hell---Blake is outing himself as a Sabbatean! Look that up. Blake was a dirtbag. He is a traitor and turncoat. The man was positively evil.
Good talk. Incidentally I'm writing a book on His Dark Materials. I know Pullman feels Blake is always going to be far greater than his understanding of him. By his own admission he only lives in one small area of the vast continent of Blake.
In my first exposure to Blake,I just thought he was schizophrenic. Over time and further familiarity I came to the realization of his singular genius;artist,poet and creator of his own mystic religion. "The marigold's greatest agony is the inchworm's greatest joy" "Prisons are built with stones of law,and brothels with bricks of religion" ..and then there's Flammable Gass..
very interesting~ I briefly looked it up, but it just said he was from a "dissenting family". And it looks like he died at an old age. Were you implying something may have happened based on his views or I just thought that based on your comment about him not being buried at Westinster Abbey?
@@grainofsand4176 check out wikipedia,John Bunyan is also buried in bunhill fields,you can get a travel lodge for £27 on a sunday night,just down the road,also just over the road is the John Wesley chapel.
if you want to know the truth about W.Blake please ,listen to this lecture on YT. 1985-1128 Public Program, Shri Mataji on William Blake's Vision and Q&A, London
When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. . When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differenanitate between good and evil.. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral law giver, but that's Who you are trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral law giver, there is no moral law, if there is no moral law there's no good.. If there's no good there's no evil.. What is your question?
i would guess it was more about his personal experience of childhood growing up as a creative person in a time where freedom and imagination were not encouraged.
