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From: "William" <wblake@wblake.net>
Subject: A Few Thoughts
To: "Lyra" <earthwalked@earthwalking.com>
Lyra,
You asked me about what sorts of Ideas I held close to my heart in the coffee shop this afternoon. I wanted to send you an e-mail containing a bit of my prose to help you understand what I waxed poetic about.
The voice of the Devil.
All Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors.
1. That Man has two real existing principles Viz: a Body & a Soul.
2. That Energy, call'd Evil, is alone from the Body, & that Reason,
call'd Good, is alone from the Soul.
3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.
But the following Contraries to these are True
1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that call'd Body is
a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul
in this age
2. Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound
or outward circumference of Energy.
3 Energy is Eternal Delight
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to
be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs
the unwilling.
And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the
shadow of desire.
The history of this is written in Paradise Lost, & the Governor or
Reason is call'd Messiah.
And the original Archangel or possessor of the command of the heavenly
host, is call'd the Devil or Satan and his children are call'd Sin &
Death.
But in the Book of Job Miltons Messiah is call'd Satan.
For this history has been adopted by both parties.
It indeed appear'd to Reason as if Desire was cast out, but the Devil's
account is, that the Messiah fell, & formed a heaven of what he stole
from the Abyss.
This is shewn in the Gospel, where he prays to the Father to send the
comforter or Desire that Reason may have Ideas to build on, the Jehovah
of the Bible being no other than he who dwells in flaming fire.
Know that after Christs death, he became Jehovah.
But in Milton; the Father is Destiny, the Son, a Ratio of the five senses,
& the Holy-ghost, Vacuum!
Note: The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels &
God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true
Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it.
Also:
If the doors of perception were to be cleansed man would see everything
as it truly is... Infinite.
and:
The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.