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Blake, William - All deities reside in the human breast
Identifier
002844
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Blake's "Glad Day" or "The Dance of Albion"...
A description of the experience
William Blake –from The Complete Poems
The ancient poets animated all sensible objects with gods .. calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers and mountains, lakes and cities, nations and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive.
And particularly they studied the genius of each city and country, placing it under its mental deity.
Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realise or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood.
Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales
And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things
Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.
The source of the experience
Blake, WilliamConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
AngstInsecurity
Psychological trauma
Suppressions
Home schoolingManic depression