Glorious Incomprehensible: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic LanguageTraces the evolution of hebraic etymologies and mystical grammars as indicators of a profound shift in Blake's subjective consciousness from the earliest prose tracts, worked on before 1790, to the last years of his life, when he was still completing 'Jerusalem'. |
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Glorious Incomprehensible: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Language Sheila A. Spector No preview available - 2001 |
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Adam Ahania allegory Angel archetypal associated attempt Beulah Blake seems Blake's language Book of Ahania Book of Los Book of Thel Book of Urizen Bromion Christian Clarendon Press concept of intentionality context contraries conventional Copy Daughters of Albion death derived Divine Edited empirical English Enitharmon Erdman Essays Essick Eternity existence experience fact of intentionality Four Zoas Fuzon glosses grammar guage Heaven and Hell hebraic etymologies Hebrew human intentional relationship interpreted Jerusalem Jewish Jews Kabbalah Kabbalism kabbalistic Katz letters Leutha linguistic London Luvah major prophecies Marriage of Heaven means Milton mode of thought Mysticism and Language myth negation noun Oothoon Palamabron Parkhurst perfon philosophical plate poem Poetic poftfixed Princeton Prophet Rare Book Rational Soul Religion reprint sciousness sense signify Song Song of Los spiritual subjective consciousness symbol Tharmas Theotormon thou tion tional Tiriel Tirzah trans transcend Urthona Vala Verbs vision William Blake words York
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Page 23 - Now I a fourfold vision see, And a fourfold vision is given to me; 'Tis fourfold in my supreme delight And threefold in soft Beulah's night And twofold Always. May God us keep From Single vision & Newton's sleep!3 I also inclose you some Ballads by Mr Hayley, with prints to them by Your Hble Serv'.
Page 84 - 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.
Page 64 - I am a watry weed, And I am very small, and love to dwell in lowly vales; So weak, the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head; Yet I am visited from heaven, and he that smiles on all Walks in the valley and each morn over me spreads his hand...
Page 58 - That the Poetic Genius is the true Man. and that the body or outward form of Man is derived from the Poetic Genius. Likewise that the forms of all things are derived from their Genius, which by the Ancients was call'd an Angel & Spirit & Demon.
Page 28 - So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
Page 157 - I give you the end of a golden string: Only wind it into a ball, — It will lead you in at Heaven's gate, Built in Jerusalem's wall.
Page 79 - The voice of slaves beneath the sun, and children bought with money, That shiver in religious caves beneath the burning fires Of lust, that belch incessant from the summits of the earth 10 Oothoon weeps not.