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Blakean
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Texts
All Religions Are OneWilliam Blake's earliest philosophical tractate — nine propositions arguing that the Poetic Genius is the universal source from which all religions and all human faculties derive.Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceWilliam Blake's contrary-states poems — Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) — the Lamb and the Tyger, the chimney sweeper and the sick rose, forty-seven lyrics mapping the two contrary states of the human soul.The Marriage of Heaven and HellBlake's visionary prose poem of 1790, proclaiming the holiness of Energy and the unity of contraries — the founding document of the Aquarian imagination.There Is No Natural ReligionWilliam Blake's companion tractate to All Religions Are One — two series of propositions arguing that the senses alone cannot contain truth, and that infinite desire implies an infinite perceiving soul.