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Four Zoas, Night VII

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To seek self-knowledge is to enter the maze through which there is no direct path.

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Quotes from On the Nature of the Psyche, by C G Jung:

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"Every other science has so to speak an outside; not so psychology, whose object is the inside subject of all science.

Psychology therefore culminates of necessity in a developmental process which is peculiar to the psyche and consists of integrating the unconscious contents into consciousness. 

I doubt my ability to give a proper account of the change that comes over the subject under the influence of the individuation process; ... if the unconscious if to be integrated indispensable business of coming to terms with the unconscious components of the personality. Once these unconscious components are made conscious, it results not only in their assimilation to the already existing personality, but a transformation of the latter." 

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"the ego ... cannot easily be altered ... If the structure of the ego-consciousness is strong enough to withstand the assault ... there is an alteration of the ego as well as of the unconscious contents... the ego is ousted from its central and dominating position... the unconscious contents has vitalized the personality, enriched it  and created a figure that somehow dwarfs the ego in scope and intensity...In this way the will, as disposable energy, gradually subordinates itself to the stronger factor, namely the new totality-figure I call the self."  

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"Conscious wholeness consists in a successful union of ego and self, so that both preserve their intrinsic qualities. If, instead of this union, the ego is overpowered by the self, then the self too does not attain the form it ought to have, but remains on a primitive level and can express itself only in archaic symbols."

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"the self comprises infinitely more than a mere ego, as the symbolism has shown of old. It is as much one's own self, and all other selves, as the ego. Individuation does not shut on out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself."

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Both William Blake and Carl Jung were consumed with understanding the human psyche. As a starting point they each looked inward into their own condition. To share their insights Blake used poetic language and Jung used a more prosaic or scientific style. Each man developed his own vocabulary to describe the inner realities he discovered. But if we look closely at what they found we see  the similarities.  

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THERE is NO NATURAL RELIGION, (E 2)
The Author & Printer W Blake

IV  None could have other than natural or organic thoughts if
he had none but organic perceptions
  V  Mans desires are limited by his perceptions. none can desire
what he has not perciev'd
  VI  The desires & perceptions of man untaught by any thing but
organs of sense, must be limited to objects of sense.

  THERE is NO NATURAL RELIGION [b]   

I  Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception. he
percieves more than sense (tho' ever so acute) can discover. ...

VII The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite
& himself Infinite"

Milton, Plate 2, (E 96)  

"Come into my hand    
By your mild power; descending down the Nerves of my right arm
From out the Portals of my Brain, where by your ministry
The Eternal Great Humanity Divine. planted his Paradise,
And in it caus'd the Spectres of the Dead to take sweet forms
In likeness of himself. Tell also of the False Tongue! vegetated
Beneath your land of shadows: of its sacrifices. and
Its offerings; even till Jesus, the image of the Invisible God
Became its prey; a curec, an offering, and an atonement,
For Death Eternal in the heavens of Albion, & before the Gates
Of Jerusalem his Emanation, in the heavens beneath Beulah  

Jerusalem, Plate 4, (E 146)

"Of the Sleep of Ulro! and of the passage through
Eternal Death! and of the awaking to Eternal Life.

This theme calls me in sleep night after night, & ev'ry morn
Awakes me at sun-rise, then I see the Saviour over me 
Spreading his beams of love, & dictating the words of this mild song.  
Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows, wake! expand!

I am in you and you in me, mutual in love divine:" 

Milton, Plate 35 [39], (E 35)

"So spake Ololon in reminiscence astonishd, but they
Could not behold Golgonooza without passing the Polypus
A wondrous journey not passable by Immortal feet, & none         
But the Divine Saviour can pass it without annihilation.
For Golgonooza cannot be seen till having passd the Polypus
It is viewed on all sides round by a Four-fold Vision
Or till you become Mortal & Vegetable in Sexuality
Then you behold its mighty Spires & Domes of ivory & gold        
And Ololon examined all the Couches of the Dead.
Even of Los & Enitharmon & all the Sons of Albion

And his Four Zoas terrified & on the verge of Death"

Jerusalem, PLATE 63, (213)

"Jehovah stood among the Druids in the Valley of Annandale
When the Four Zoas of Albion, the Four Living Creatures, the Cherubim
Of Albion tremble before the Spectre, in the starry likeness of the Plow
Of Nations. And their Names are Urizen & Luvah & Tharmas & Urthona"

Four Zoas, Night 1, Page 1, E 300)

" THE FOUR ZOAS

          The torments of Love & Jealousy in 
                The Death and Judgement
               of Albion the Ancient Man

                                  by William Blake 1797
...
Night the First

The Song of the Aged Mother which shook the heavens with wrath
Hearing the march of long resounding strong heroic Verse
Marshalld in order for the day of Intellectual Battle

Four Mighty Ones are in every Man;
   a Perfect Unity                   John XVII c. 21 & 22 & 23 v
Cannot Exist. but from the Universal                             
   Brotherhood of Eden                 John I c. 14. v

The Universal Man. To Whom be
     Glory Evermore Amen       <Greek [kai eskanosen en [h]amen]>

[What] are the Natures of those Living Creatures the
     Heavenly Father only
[Knoweth] no Individual [Knoweth nor] Can know
     in all Eternity  

Los was the fourth immortal starry one, & in the Earth
Of a bright Universe Empery attended day & night                 
Days & nights of revolving joy, Urthona was his name

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In Eden; in the Auricular Nerves of Human life
Which is the Earth of Eden, he his Emanations propagated
Fairies of Albion afterwards Gods of the Heathen, Daughter of Beulah Sing
His fall into Division & his Resurrection to Unity
His fall into the Generation of Decay & Death & his Regeneration 
     by the Resurrection from the dead"  

Milton, (Plate 24 [26], (E 119)

"the Seven Eyes of God continually
Guard round them, but I the Fourth Zoa am also set
The Watchman of Eternity, the Three are not! & I am preserved
Still my four mighty ones are left to me in Golgonooza           
Still Rintrah fierce, and Palamabron mild & piteous
Theotormon filld with care, Bromion loving Science

You O my Sons still guard round Los. O wander not & leave me Rintrah,"

Milton, Plate 28 [30], (E 126)

"While the poor indigent is like the diamond which tho cloth'd
In rugged covering in the mine, is open all within
And in his hallowd center holds the heavens of bright eternity

Milton, Plate 30 [33], (E 131)

"And none can tell how from so small a center comes such sweets
Forgetting that within that Center Eternity expands
Its ever during doors, that Og & Anak fiercely guard"

Four Zoas, Night VIII, Page 114, (E 385)

"He touches the remotest pole & in the Center weeps
That Man should Labour & sorrow & learn & forget & return
To the dark valley whence he came to begin his labours anew
In pain he sighs in pain he labours in his universe
Screaming in birds over the deep & howling in the Wolf
Over the slain & moaning in the cattle & in the winds
And weeping over Orc & Urizen in clouds & flaming fires   

And in the cries of birth & in the groans of death his voice 
Is heard throughout the Universe whereever a grass grows
Or a leaf buds   The Eternal Man is seen is heard   is felt
And all his Sorrows till he reassumes his ancient bliss

Such are the words of Ahania & Enion. Los hears & weeps"