correction to Blake, Milton, Blicero

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 19 10:48:20 CST 2000



Correction


Energy is delight because God is Love and His basic Ethic is
the Forgiveness of Sins, "O' God thou art Not an Avenger."

God's Mercy and Love is so Boundless, so Unconditional that 
We need  NOT    even Atone for Our Energies and Sins. 

Of course the churches don't like this idea, in GR guilt is
the most powerful tool of the gnostic bureaucrats. 


Following Milton, "make a Hell of Heaven or a Heaven of
Hell",
 see BK I of PL, the mind is it's own place and can make a
hell of heaven or a heaven of hell."

Note all quotes from memory. 

 in Blake Hell is Satan's creation, just as it is in
Milton's PL.

in PL Satan is also the father of Sin and his incestuous
relations with her brings Dearth into the world and all our
woe. 

Hell, in Blake, is a state of being, where Mercy and Love
are Not present, 


This is what Dante calls DIS, the absolute nothing that is
God, the center of the ninth level of the Inferno, where
torture never ends, 

but Blake  says there is NO Hell, as in Dante, God is love
not an Avenger


but that, as in Shakespeare's Hamlet, nothing is but
thinking make it so, 

What seems to be, what is subjective in Blake is real for
that person



turning one's back or mind, negating the Poetic Genius,
turning away  from the Divine Vision, which is God, puts one
in a state of Hell, no energy, 


In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the fires of Hell,  are
the flames of inspiration,
even the means of Salvation, 

Milton and Blake too, all True poets, even Jesus (Proverbs
are for Paranoids and parables are for children) are of the
Devil's party, although, as
with Milton, without knowing it. 

Of course, Eddins is right on to this when he says that,
Pynchon, like Milton, is of
the devil's part without knowing it. He's talking about P's
great Satan (as in Milton) Blicero.



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