William Blake - God Is The Imagination - Gnostic

William Blake - God Is The Imagination - Gnostic

Category:

Education

Tags:

• William
• Blake
• God
• Is
• The
• Imagination
• Gnosticism
• Roscicrucians
• Alchemy
• AcceleratorPlus

[Ayato9]

Any chance you could upload the full documentary? I'd love to see it...

[AcceleratorPlus]

@Ayato9 The 12 parts I have uploaded are on my play-lists.. called - Gnostics.. this is one of them.. they come from an old documentary on Gnosticism.

The part I have inserted at the end.. comes from a BBC drama called - William Blake MeetsThomas Paine - which I uploaded in 5 parts.. It is among my early uploads.. it is well worth watching.. if you admire the work of Blake.

[jonathanspan]

Not impressed, Isaac Newton was a great alchemist as well as a great physicist, and no doubt had an infinitely deeper understanding of spirituality and mysticism than his critic in this video. The tyranny of imagination over reason is just as bad as the tyranny of reason over imagination, if not even worse due to its reckless disregard for the very real laws of the physical world.

[AcceleratorPlus]

@jonathanspan I believe the point Blake was making is that scientific reasoning has its limits.. not everything can be proved. He was taking an understandable defensive position for his time.. science was imbedded in materialism.. while ignoring the intangibles.

[AcceleratorPlus]

As for Newton’s interests.. I think Blake would have approved.. if he had known.

Nevertheless.. all great minds are subject to error……... i.e. absolute time

If you wish.. check my uploads for...

“Isaac Newton's Secret Interests in Alchemy”

[perceptionsevrything]

Fantastic!

[fntime]

@AcceleratorPlus I think he understood the limitations of reason.

Reason & logic are 'mind operating systems'. They are not false

if used properly, but they are only one of the mind's many tools.

Newton was a seeker of truth! A man who makes great discoveries

has imagination and can think counter intuitively and illogically

when necessary.

[MSCearly]

@103northfields

thanks, looked up Nocturne, loved it.

[sydneydowful]

Just the fact it brung so many people to think so deeply is almost a point in itself..

Sincerly;

The idiot

[traog]

@jonathanspan Agnosticism is not the middle ground that some people seem to think it is, I am both an agnostic and an atheist, I don't know whether god/s exist but I also don't believe the claims of the theists regarding their versions of god. I don't think that it is actually possible to hold a middle position, you either believe a claim or you don't, but either way you still can be agnostic.

BTW only ignorant people would refer to atheism as a religion, like the hobby of not collecting coins.

[jonathanspan]

Only ignorant half-wits such as Richard Dorkins with their half baked religion called "atheism" fail to see this. I remember my epistemology teacher in high school used to say that he is an agnostic because he hasn't seen god and he finds it unlikely that he exists, and that if he did see god than he would be a theist, and that he certainly wouldn't call himself an atheist, because that would be like being sure of something he's never seen :)

[jonathanspan]

@AcceleratorPlus well yeah, I would add that most brilliant scientists such as leonardo, newton and einstein were very aware of this if you look at their philosophical work. william james is another one, he chose to use a more materialistic point of view to model things, but acknowledged that this choice was merely for the sake of tidiness and avoidance of extreme complexity, and mentions metaphysics as the path to go beyond, though he warns about it's extreme difficulty.