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"...I then asked Ezekiel, why he eat dung, & lay so long on his right and left side? He answerd, 'the desire of raising other men into a perception of the infinite; this the North American tribes practice, & is he honest who resists his genius or conscience, only for the sake of present ease or gratification?'
The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.
For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at the tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite and holy whereas now it appears finite and corrupt.
This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.
But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul, is to be expunged; this I shall do, by printing in the infernal method, by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, displaying the infinite which was hid.
If the doors of perception were cleans'd everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up, until he sees things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
~ William Blake, 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'
Interests
reading (mainly poetry and philosophy), music, writing (essays and poetry), walking and meditating
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