Wednesday, March 25

Shadow of Desire

William Blake has amazing insight. There is so much to digest in his excerpt.
He negates all preconceived notions of Good and Bad, God and Satan. Instead we are enlightened with this new knowledge of how maybe these opposing forces are really one, and we have viewed everything backwards and upside-down all of our lives.
We are told that the Soul and Body are not separate, but instead are one, intertwined. And that Energy (which is correlated with Satan) is the only life and is from the Body, and that Reason (which is correlated with God) is the outward circumference of Energy.
We are told that we should not restrain our desires, and he writes some of the Proverbs that he collected from Hell...
Some of which I really enjoyed:
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
Shame is Pride's cloke.

It seems that we fall back on the recurring theme of looking outside your box. If we do so, then we will see that everything is infinite.
Having the opposing forces of good and evil be called one and the same is a little difficult to grasp, but if we believe that evil exists, it is only because we have the good to compare it to. Kind of like when Blake turned the Heaven/Hell existance around on us, and put it in Satan's perspective. Where Satan said that God was the one that "fell" out of their Paradise, and that God then created from what was around him a place that he labeled "Heaven".

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