The Eye Altering William Blake and the Nature of
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- Author: 2024-12-12
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Blake understood that forms are not temporary and unimportant but eternal, continually creating and recreating themselves. — location: 19
To see imaginatively is to see humanly, because mercy, pity, peace and love are vital aspects of both inter-relational reality and the human way of seeing that reality. Whereas the left Brain only sees life in terms of power, utility, and dead mechanisms (Urizenic perception or “Single Vision”), the imaginative right hemisphere understands and participates in the creative, evolving, dynamic spirit or holomovement of everything. If we look deeply, we see imagination itself at work – or rather, at play – everywhere in the universe. — location: 46
Imagination is an ontological reality — location: 52
Blake saw the ‘Fiery Chariot’ of human consciousness as itself the key to unlocking divinity; — location: 112
Images, like Forms, are Chariots. We participate in them and they participate in us. You enter into them and they enter into you. Every Blake image is therefore a Door of Perception, which you can pass through. — location: 120