There is a finite world - the material world of time and space. Humans receive physical bodies capable of living in the physical world of matter, time and space. But there is another world - the Infinite World - the Spiritual world of Eternity and Infinity. Humans are given Spiritual Bodies which live both in the physical and in the eternal worlds. The Spiritual Body is capable of perceiving the Divine Vision which is opaque to the corporeal body.
When Albion fell from his Unifying Form by closing himself off from the Divine Vision and following his own Selfhood, the delicate balance in the Human psyche lost its ability to function in the Spiritual world. We can think of the Natural World as a filter which separates us from the world which is not perceived by our natural senses. Even though the Natural World is a gift to be used and enjoyed in this life, it obscures the underlying import of the activity of Spiritual Reality. Blake tells us to look not at the world but 'thro' the world, not at the filter but at truths that underlie and give definition to what the senses perceive.
If we, like Albion, cannot discern
the workings on the Spirit in ourselves and in the Natural World
we cannot see the Divine Hand at work. Without Vision we find
ourselves in the Furnace of Affliction until that hour when we
awake.
Proverbs 29
[18] Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Jerusalem, Plate 37 [41], (E 184)
[illustration, with inscription, reversed:]
"Each Man is in
his Spectre's power
Untill the arrival
of that hour,
When his Humanity
awake
And cast his Spectre
into the Lake"
Vision of Last Judgment, (E 566)
"I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any
more than I would Question a Window concerning a Sight I look
thro it & not with it."
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