The Marriage of Heaven and Hell E-Book

William Blake

• Herausgeber: DigiCat
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

William Blake's 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' is a revolutionary work of poetry and prose that challenges the traditional binary between good and evil. Written in the late 18th century, this book reflects Blake's belief in the marriage of opposites as a path to spiritual enlightenment. Through a series of aphorisms, poems, and philosophical reflections, Blake criticizes the limitations of conventional religion and morality, offering a vision of a world where opposites coexist in harmony. The book's unique blend of visionary imagery and sharp social critique makes it a standout work in the Romantic literary movement. Blake's use of symbolism and allegory brings depth and complexity to his exploration of the human experience and the nature of divinity. Readers will be drawn into a world where imagination reigns supreme and boundaries are blurred between the sacred and the profane. 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of art, religion, and philosophy.

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William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

 

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Table of Contents

THE ARGUMENT

THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL

A MEMORABLE FANCY

PROVERBS OF HELL

A MEMORABLE FANCY

A MEMORABLE FANCY

A MEMORABLE FANCY

A MEMORABLE FANCY

A SONG OF LIBERTY

CHORUS

THE ARGUMENT

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Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden’d air,Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

Once meek, and in a perilous pathThe just man kept his course alongThe Vale of Death.Roses are planted where thorns grow,And on the barren heathSing the honey bees.

Then the perilous path was planted,And a river and a springOn every cliff and tomb;And on the bleached bonesRed clay brought forth:Till the villain left the paths of easeTo walk in perilous paths, and driveThe just man into barren climes.

Now the sneaking serpent walksIn mild humility;And the just man rages in the wildsWhere lions roam.

Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden’d air,Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent, the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg is the angel sitting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded up. Now is the dominion of Edom, and the return of Adam into Paradise.—See Isaiah xxxiv. and xxxv. chap.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil. Good is the passive that obeys reason; Evil is the active springing from Energy.

Good is heaven. Evil is hell.

THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL

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All Bibles or sacred codes have been the cause of the following errors:—

1. That man has two real existing principles, viz., a Body and a Soul.

2. That Energy, called Evil, is alone from the Body; and that Reason, called Good, is alone from the Soul.

3. That God will torment man in Eternity for following his Energies.

But the following contraries to these are true:—

1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul. For that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

2. Energy is the only life, and is from the Body; and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

3. Energy is Eternal Delight.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling.

And being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire.

The history of this is written in Paradise Lost, and the Governor or Reason is called Messiah.

And the original Archangel or possessor of the command of the heavenly host is called the Devil, or Satan, and his children are called Sin and Death.