tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post4307269393518918855..comments2024-02-13T13:39:31.292-05:00Comments on William Blake: Religion and Psychology: Father and SpectreLarry Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11571190213288384302noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-14102622862044400602010-12-30T07:28:21.597-05:002010-12-30T07:28:21.597-05:00thanks, Larry! and thanks for tracking down the ur...thanks, Larry! and thanks for tracking down the url... I got the article via email & didn't know how to get to a link.<br /><br />I really like the part you wrote at the end - about "his awareness that all those who had bothered him were forgiven, as he knew that God had forgiven him."<br /><br />life is short.... :-)Susan J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07676460547965873094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-21777938668587916112010-12-29T18:34:42.517-05:002010-12-29T18:34:42.517-05:00Susan:
For an email or a comment you can always...Susan:<br /> For an email or a comment you can always direct your reader to the url from which you got the info: for example:<br />http://city-journal.org/2010/20_4_history-of-freedom.html.<br /><br />Your reader can copy that url and paste it in a browser.<br /><br />Re Blake and Socrates' daemon I have a very sketchy acquaintance with Plato, but get the impression that it was a gift that Socrates lived by. What Blake lived by he call Vision. He lived for Vision. The competing force in Blake he called the Spectre, which might be closer to Socrates' daemon than Blake's Vision.<br /><br />I got from the essay that Socrates was condemned to be free; that sounds much more like the Spectre than Blake's Vision.<br /><br />Blake felt that the Spectre had undue and inappropriate control over him for his first 20 adult years, until what I call his rebirth.<br /><br />In Plate 98 of Jerusalem Blake's analogy of the Parousia he wrote:<br />"The innumerable Chariots of the Almighty appeard in Heaven<br />And Bacon & Newton & Locke, & Milton & Shakspeare & Chaucer..."<br /><br />For many years Blake used the first three as metaphors of the terrible materialism that infested the culture I had to live in, but he uses it here to mark his awareness that all those who had bothered him were forgiven, as he knew that God had forgiven him.Larry Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11571190213288384302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-73656473941975124892010-12-29T08:55:57.748-05:002010-12-29T08:55:57.748-05:00Another question -- I'm reading this "Fat...Another question -- I'm reading this "Father and Spectre" post alongside your December 13 "Blake's Devil."<br /><br />So.... it would seem that Union would eventually reconcile (unite?) Blake with his perceived contraries -- Bacon, Newton, Locke -- <br /><br />This idea makes sense to me, as I often find myself reacting defensively to Blake's disdain for Reason and What We Can Know Through Our Senses... :-)Susan J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07676460547965873094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-27191730500515712712010-12-29T07:11:16.584-05:002010-12-29T07:11:16.584-05:00Do you know whether Blake explicitly or implicitly...Do you know whether Blake explicitly or implicitly made use of the classical idea of "daimon" or "daemon"? I used the concordance tool and only came up with one reference:<br />"Daemon The Gods all Serve her at her will so great her Power"<br /><br />I'm going to email you the article whence cometh this question... I can't see a way to attach it here...<br /><br />Thanks!!Susan J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07676460547965873094noreply@blogger.com