William Blake: Religion and Psychology

Of all the Christian spiritual leaders of the past 200 years this British poet would be placed near the top by any enlightened Christian....

. Genesis: Adam, Eve and Satan Psychology, Theology, Mythology: in the last analysis the three things all merge together into one, especial...

The links provide the best Blake online: 1. The Primer together with Ram Horn'd with Gold is Larry Clayton's online book with a co...

This is a response to friend Clint Stevens' post to the Yahoo Blake group. It really doesn't respond to Clint's architectura...

People use one (or both) of two basic languages: 1. The vernacular or ordinary 2. Poetic language. Our Blake spoke the poetic language from ...

We know that Lewis was familiar enough to name one of his best books, The Great Divorce , in response to Blake's Marriage of Heaven and ...

I've written a detailed explanation of Blake's basic use of the Bible and of the meaning it had for him. Go to Finally the Bible .

Early on in his career Blake realized that the church had it all wrong. Since the days of Constantine the church has been the bastion of so...

Ezekiel once acted out a bizarre symptom of the prospects of the Israelites, lying for 3 months on his right side, then 3 months on his left...

You will find Assault on a Woman here. For further information keep following the Blake Primer .

This is not about Catherine, Blake's wife, with whom he lived in happy conjugal relationship for 40 years (her only complaint was that h...

It was early morning; I sat in the breakfast room reading the paper. Then I turned to Kathleen Raines' Blake and Antiquity . It led to...

As committed a Christian as Blake was, he still receives little or no coinage in conventional religious circles. The reasons are rather obv...

Learning Blake I got into Blake re 1978 and published my Blake book five years later.

Ezekiel talked to Blake about "the desire of raising other men to the perception of the Infinite" (MHH) . Here's a modern eq...

This was central to Blake's evolving theology. It came to him at 42 and delivered him from his need to flog Old Nobodaddy ; he had expe...

(Look also at Blake's Bible.) If you think the Bible is inerrant, and that every word has one and only one meaning, then you don't...

Records show a strange congruence between the development and psyche of these two men: Blake saw the face of God in his window at four. J...

“Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.”, from the Marriage of Heaven and Hell Here it is: the first blog (from blogger.c...

This is a repost of an earlier post intended to help Blake students get started: An anonymous reader has asked that we provide more informat...