Blakean

Pages

  • 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.