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By: Harold Sequeira

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BLAKE, EDWARD Ð THE ENGLISH MYSTIC

Mysticism thrives side by side with a violent and hedonistic society just as a lotus blooms in mud. "In England mysticism manifested itself in the works of the 17th Century Cambridge Platonists[i] in those of William Law,[ii] author of the "Serious Call to a Devout Life" and in the art and poetry of William Blake" , writes Mirecea Eliade[iii] .

Blake was born in 1757 in London, and was schooled in art early (at 7), apprenticed to an engraver at 14. His father was a hosier Ð a fashion clothes designer, clothes to suit that moment of change of style, in England. Little did Blake senior imagine that while he was changing the image of the outer man, it would his son William who would change the inner man, through his visionary art and lyric poetry and "mystic" writings.

Early in his life William was influenced by the German mystic Boehme[iv] , by the Swedish mystic Swedenborg[v] * and William Law, whose work[vi] laid the foundations stone of revival in mysticism in England.

His skill en engraving from the age of 14 helped him to launch his own engraving workshop. His early skills helped him in later years to illuminate lyric, religious and mystic texts.

"Song of Innocence" his earliest poetical work, was notable for its eloquence. His next, "Innocence and Experience", tried to delineate two states of the human soul Ð the one of innocence of the Soul, and the second the soul's experience in the material world.[vii]

In art he constructed the forms and images from his inner visions. He illustrated works of John Milton[viii] , John Bunyan[ix] and from the bible.

In his writings he was a radical. He condemned political tyranny, in his magnificent essay in "Europe, a Prophecy" (1794); theological tyranny in his "The Book of Urizen". His mystic insights were outlined in "The marriage of Heaven and Hell", wherein he developed the idea that "without contraries there is no progression"[x] In his later writings as "The Four Zoas", Blake writes about the aspects of the human soul, envisioning the triumph of the soul[xi] .

H. Sequeira

[i] English Christian philosophers based in Cambridge, who tried to revive morality in English society,. Henry More was a well known Cambridge Platonist. They were opposed to the materialistic views of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes

[ii] Law, was a writer on ethics and mysticism, based at Cambridge for many years

[iii] A Romanian-born philosopher. Writer of religious history. Eliade also lived in India for a number of years studying with Surendranath Dasgupta, the historian of Indian philosophy

[iv] Jakob Boehme (1575-1624), German theologian-mystic. Apprenticed in youth to a shoemaker, Jakob nonetheless, through his mystic visions, stated that "everything exists and is intelligible only through its opposite".

[v] Immanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), with an unusually brilliant mind. Immanuel was a scientist, enginner (mining), theologian, philosopher and a mystic who stated that "the highest conjunction with the divine is possible only through love and wisdom (like Bhakti and Jnana marg).

[vi] "A serious call to a devout and holy life" by William Law., indicating mystical insights.

[vii] See Bhoga (Experience) and Apavarga Ð Innocence, Yoga Sutra II.18, which also explains the two states of the soul, the bound by matter, and the liberated soul.

[viii] John Milton, English poet extra-ordinaire, writer of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, which recount the soul's journey through hellish realms and its final deliverance

[ix] John Bunyan, English writer whose masterpiece "Pilgrims Progress" which inspired thousands in their spiritual search

[x] See Dvandva: Y/Sutra II.48, in a state called Samapathi, where there is concordance with the object of concentration, and a totally relaxed view, one is able to handle the contraries of nature be they physical, psychological or psychic. This opens up "infinity" to the Yogi. In a similar fashion we have Blake writing "if the doors of perception were cleaned, everything will appear to a man as it is, infinite".

[xi] The theme of the liberation of the soul is outlined in the Yoga Sutra Ð see Kaivalya , Yoga Sutra IV.34; Moksha is a similar idea. Liberation of the Soul is also a recurring theme in Mysticism all over the world

Harold Sequeira

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