William Blake: Religion and Psychology

In 1946 W. P. Witcutt published a little book named Blake a psychological study . In his introduction he states: "It is only in recent ...

Years ago, sitting in a young adult group in a Methodist church I listened to the pastor trying to convince us that Satan was a real person;...

From Robert Blair's The Grave The Meeting of the Family in Heaven Both Blake and Jung involved themselves in the study of alchemy as a s...

In Milton Plate 37 you may read: "And these the names of the Twenty-seven Heavens & their Churches Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahala...

Image from Book of Urizen 'Eternity shutter'd when they saw Man begatting his likeness On his own divided image."  The proc...

All his life Blake read the Bible, loved it, and engaged in dialogue with its immortal authors. Virtually every line of his poetry and ever...

Robert Blair's The Grave The conscious mind is generally thought to be under the control of the Ego although the Ego's control is...

The earlier post concerned Blake's attitude toward War and his statements re it. Here I want to point out some of the biblical terms s...

ARCHETYPE (ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY) "The scientific hypothesis of the archetype was proposed by Jung as an innate formal element that ...

"When at last I did descry the Immortal Man who cannot die, through evening shades I haste away to close the labors of my Day" (fr...

New York Public Library Milton Plate 36 On Plate 36 of Milton , Blake presents a diagram of Milton's descent into the world from Eterni...

Here's what he thought of the Establishment Gospel: Using the Blake Concordance I found only two occurrences of the word, idol; it led m...

    Illustrations to Paradise Regained Morning Chasing Away the Phantoms   I think that Blake's IQ was off the charts. His mind was ca...

The Perennial Philosophy was about as good a description of Blake's thought as we can find. Not trained and conditioned to the Enlight...

MARY AT HER DISTAFF WATCHED OVER BY TWO ANGELS from Milton's Paradise Regained What may one trust (see post TRUST ): In contrast to thi...