In this work Blake fully shows his reversed beliefs during this time. The work is named after Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell, and even directly criticizes Swedenborg. It also contains references to Milton's Paradise Lost and employs a visit to hell nature of Dante's Inferno. The main focus of the work is to show the repressive nature of morality and religion. Blake shows that he believes physical desire is a part of the divine order. He says, \"Energy, calld Evil,\" and, \"That God will torment man in eternity for following his Energies.. This quote shows how Blake disagrees with religion's tendency to use fear to suppress mans' desires. He also goes on to say, \"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained;\". The whole work exemplifies Blake's hate of how religion and morality restrain man. Another good quote from the work is, \"He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.\". This work supports my topic because from the beginning to the end Blake argues of the dangers of suppressing mans desires, and he tries to reverse common thought to make man more complete. It is clear from this work that Blake feels that restraint of desire takes away from mans self and individuality.
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J.", "lastName": "Altizer" } ], "abstractNote": "It was William Blake's insight that the Christian churches, by inverting the Incarnation and the dialectical vision of Paul, have repressed the body, divided God from creation, substituted judgment for grace, and repudiated imagination, compassion, and the original apocalyptic faith of early Christianity. Blake's prophetic poetry thus contributes to the renewal of Christian ethics by a process of subversion and negation of Christian moral, ecclesiastical, and theological traditions, which are recognized precisely as inversions of Jesus, and therefore as instances of the forms of evil that God-in-Christ overcomes through Incarnation, reversing the Fall. Blake's great epic poems, particularly Milton (1804–08) and Jerusalem (1804–20), embody his heterodox representation of the final coincidence of Christ and Satan through which, at last, all things are made new. 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It references the reversed Satan of Milton's Paradise Lost as an example of how Blake treated nearly everything of accepted Christianity of his time. Other recurring themes are the self annihilation of God and apocalypse. The author points out how Blake is nearly unknown in politics and religion today because his works and beliefs were the inverse of most everything. In the book of Genesis most believe that when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit it was a moment of pure free will the author tries to prove that Blake believed the opposite. \"... transmission of original sin, and also the moment in which the will is least free.\". The author simply shows how Blake sought to challenge commonly accepted thought of the time. This relates to my topic because the thought of the time generally involved suppression of desire and free will through fear of punishment or damnation. Good people were thought to be the ones who ignored \"temptation\" or avoided \"sin\" rather than giving in to personal desire. Another quote from the article supports this idea that Blake championed pursuing desires of the imagination. \"Blake discovered repression before its discovery by Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud,\". This quote shows Blake's belief in the dangers of repressing ones desires. Ultimately it is shown that these desires define the individual.
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