This is shewn in the Gospel, where he prays to the Father to send the comforter or Desire that Reason may have Ideas to build on, the Jehovah of the Bible being no other than he who dwells in flaming fire. It indeed appear’d to Reason as if Desire was cast out, but the Devil’s account is, that the Messiah fell, & formed a heaven of what he stole from the Abyss. The history of this is written in Paradise Lost, & the Governor or Reason is call’d Messiah.Īnd the original Archangel or possessor of the command of the heavenly host, is call’d the Devil or Satan and his children are call’d Sin & Death.īut in the Book of Job Miltons Messiah is call’d Satan.įor this history has been adopted by both parties.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.Īnd being restrain’d it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire. Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that call’d Body is a portion of Soul discern’d by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this ageĢ. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.īut the following Contraries to these are Trueġ. That Energy, call’d Evil, is alone from the Body & that Reason, call’d Good, is alone from the Soul.ģ. That Man has two real existing principles: Viz: a Body & a Soul.Ģ. Two excerpts from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell found in The Essential Blake.Īll Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors.ġ. “If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.”

Blake drive your plow