RECONCILATION

 Auguries of Innocence, (E 491)

"It is right it should be so 
Man was made for Joy & Woe
And when this we rightly know
Thro the World we safely go
Joy & Woe are woven fine
A Clothing for the soul divine 
Under every grief & pine
Runs a joy with silken twine
The Babe is more than swadling Bands
Throughout all these Human Lands"

We don't put the Joy in one pocket and the Woe in another. Joy & Woe go into the same pocket so that they can interact. As Blake says they are woven together.

If we never experienced Woe how we we find Wisdom, Strength, Compassion, Self-control and Empathy. Joy, on the other hand, can teach us Gratitude, Forgiving, Generosity, Peace, and Appreciation for Beauty and Truth and Love.

From the cloth which is woven from Joy & Woe, is constructed the garment which clothes the Essential Nature, the Soul. In this world we interact with one another through the garment which provides the tools for acting in ways which may feed the Soul.

Thank you William Blake for all you have to teach.

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Mercy and Truth are Met Together, Righteousness and Peace have Kissed Each Other

Letters, To Butts, from Felpham, (E 725)

" My wife desires her kindest Love to Mrs Butts & I have
permitted her to send it to you also. we often wish that we could
unite again in Society & hope that the time is not distant when
we shall do so. being determind not to remain another winter 
here but to return to London

     I hear a voice you cannot hear that says I must not stay
     I see a hand you cannot see that beckons me away

Naked we came here naked of Natural things & naked we shall
return. but while clothd with the Divine Mercy we are richly
clothd in Spiritual & suffer all the rest gladly Pray give my
Love to Mrs Butts & your family I am Yours Sincerely

WILLIAM BLAKE" 

[embedded quote from Thomas Tickell]

Jerusalem, Plate 97, (E 256)
"Awake! Awake Jerusalem! O lovely Emanation of Albion
Awake and overspread all Nations as in Ancient Time
For lo! the Night of Death is past and the Eternal Day
Appears upon our Hills: Awake Jerusalem, and come away

So spake the Vision of Albion & in him so spake in my hearing   
The Universal Father. Then Albion stretchd his hand into Infinitude.
And took his Bow. Fourfold the Vision for bright beaming Urizen
Layd his hand on the South & took a breathing Bow of carved Gold
Luvah his hand stretch'd to the East & bore a Silver Bow bright shining
Tharmas Westward a Bow of Brass pure flaming richly wrought   
Urthona Northward in thick storms a Bow of Iron terrible thundering.

And the Bow is a Male & Female & the Quiver of the Arrows of Love,
Are the Children of this Bow: a Bow of Mercy & Loving-kindness: laying
Open the hidden Heart in Wars of mutual Benevolence Wars of Love
And the Hand of Man grasps firm between the Male & Female Loves  
And he Clothed himself in Bow & Arrows in awful state Fourfold
In the midst of his Twenty-eight Cities each with his Bow breathing"

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Ephesians 2

[13] But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
[14] For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
[15] Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
[16] And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
[17] And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
[18] For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

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“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.