Blakes-Mythic-System-Dr-Susanne-Sklar-May-2020
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- Author: Susanne Sklar
Highlights
Zoas are almost always masculine characters and each has a feminine emanation. It is through emanation that Zoas connect with each other in infinitely translucent “fibres of love” as well as with other people, cultures, and with “the Saviour.” In Eden/Eternity Zoas and Emanations joyfully commingle – spiritually and sensually.9 — location: 70
In Eden/Eternity the Zoas ready themselves for mental fight. Urizen, embodying reason, is not marginalised. He has a bow of gold, the most precious earthly metal. In Eden/ Eternity, Reason is imaginative, empathic, and connected to basic needs. Imagination is not disorganized; it has clarity, emotion, connected to all life. Emanations are not yet mentioned, but male and female are in balance. — location: 212
Wars of love do not kill; they open hidden hearts. Wars of Love destroy defence mechanisms; wars of love intensify emanation, interconnection: on personal, political, and cultural levels. — location: 218
Arrows shot from the fourfold bow do more than open hidden hearts. They annihilate “the Druid Spectre.” Druids, you may remember, were, according to Blake, bloodthirsty warriors, practising human sacrifice, and dedicated to the worship of what he calls “the abstract reasoning power that negatives every thing” (J10:14, K629); Yet paragons of reason, Bacon & Newton & Locke, join with the great English poets, Milton & ‘Shakespear’ & Chaucer, in cosmic chariots, vehicles through which the human becomes divine. The energy of wrath propels them, as does “sexual threefold” energy (S18). The joy found in Beulah can launch us to life in the divine body. Human-divine life is sensual. — location: 223
In fourfold vision you can see and experience from four perspectives simultaneously, like the angelic beings in the Book of Ezekiel; you and your Zoas are carried up, like the four horsemen of the apocalypse. But you are not, as in John’s Revelation, riding into and bringing death, destruction, and chaos. When in and with Blake’s fourfold humanity, “dim Chaos” brightens, as it does when the Lord says: “Let there be light” in the first chapter of Genesis. You are part of creation, your nerves of sensation enhanced: sensuality intensifies. Your senses, rivers of life, flow with the living water to which Jerusalem, the Spirit and the Bride, invites all to drink at the end of the Book of Revelation. Blake’s apocalypse brings forgiveness – and this is embodied in the Divine Body, in you, flowing from each of you, and all of you, expanding: — location: 231