William Blake: Religion and Psychology

Wikipedia Commons Illustrations to  Paradise Lost Christ as Redeemer of Men Listen to Blake and the Bible commenting on Jesus, Sin, Error,...

that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one. (John 17) The theologues of the fo...

___________________________Image from Songs of Innocence , ___________________________Little Black Boy Blake with his unusually high intell...

Damon in pages 155-57 has an exhaustive display of Blake Giants. Here are few things I found especially noteworthy. Blake (like most ordin...

Blake's illustration to Milton's Comus commissioned by Thomas Butts dated 1815 Thomas Butts was a principal patron of William Bl...

"Behold I stand at the door and knock" (Revelation 3:20) What happened to our hero when he visited the Truchsessian Gallery? A DE...

Seldom do we find Blake making a simple direct statement which we immediately understand. These few lines seem to be such a statement. The ...

Jesus directed his followers to pray "thy kingdom come". In general Blake had negative feelings about kingdoms. In America he emph...

Jonathan Roberts and Christopher Rowland contributed a chapter to the Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature in which they ...

From the Britannica: The "Second Coming, also called Second Advent, or Parousia, in Christianity is the future return of Christ in g...

Jerusalem, Plate 75 ( color image from Blake Archive) The consequences of practicing a religion of Moral Virtue are personified in Rahab. ...

We may see Heaven and Earth, Heaven and Hell, Male and Female, Sun and Earth, Good and Evil or any number of contraries. "Without Contr...

Near the beginning of Jerusalem Albion became enthralled with Vala who was fallen and material. Albion fell further and further from his tr...

This is a reprise of Blake's Everlasting Gospel . Jerusalem, plates 60 and 61 each contain the word, idol, but together they represent ...