tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post4034114886358943122..comments2024-02-13T13:39:31.292-05:00Comments on William Blake: Religion and Psychology: HARVEST & VINTAGELarry Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11571190213288384302noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-52331517482310048732022-03-10T09:41:57.634-05:002022-03-10T09:41:57.634-05:00Blue = colour of peace and in European thought, al...Blue = colour of peace and in European thought, also of the Virgin Mary. Ololon's blue recalls her Virgin status earlier in Milton and her peace reconciled with her carnality?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-57311543890322915502022-02-02T08:44:02.076-05:002022-02-02T08:44:02.076-05:00Thanks for your comment. It opens for me thoughts ...Thanks for your comment. It opens for me thoughts that go in many directions. <br /><br />First I must say that we must remember that symbols don't have single or simple meanings. They reveal their essence as the means of perception is changed. If you look at the the plate in the four copies in the Blake you may be struct by how differently each is colored. Blake himself wanted to convey different things at different times which he could do using the same symbols. If you or I were writing about the image today we would have different things to say because our minds have been altered as we passed through experience.<br /><br />I think that we have to continually dip our buckets in the well, draw up the water, drink it, wash with it, or pour it back into the creek. <br /> ellie Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13708032405797473211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-48948619009254713762021-10-21T21:48:48.137-04:002021-10-21T21:48:48.137-04:00I don't see how the final image can be "O...I don't see how the final image can be "Ololon spreads the garment dipped in blood about her body" when her drapery is light blue. Also she has tree roots, possibly refering to the tree of life -- but blue? Etheral-visionary vs. fulfilled spiritual body? Los we have seeen in flames, the usual atmosphere of Blake's 'Eternity'. Now the not-yet completely fulfilled Ololon is watery or etheral-airish blue, and still rooted in or on earth? We have a previous image of her as a cloud watering a cereal crop with rain, a similarity to her watery final image beside two cereal-grain humans. The process is not complete yet. They await the harvest, which might be like a death or winter for them. Then the resurrection spring. That was at the end of The Four Zoas too. Is Ololon partially assimilated to Vala who likewise needs to be transformed and saved by reunion with Luvah as all the Emanations do?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02097076327830537180noreply@blogger.com