REASON AND THE DEIFICATION OF HUMANITY: WILLIAM BLAKE
Abstract
Blake associates human love and creativity with man’s perfect state (the Edenic State) and the Incarnate Logos (the Word of God). For Blake, humanity can restore her ideal Self and become One with God if she activates the Logos residing in her heart. Focusing on Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, this article discusses Blake’s view on the essence of God that makes humanity’s theosis (deification) possible. Also, the definition and function of Blake’s Urizen/Reason in the process of human perfection are examined, with illustrations from Blake’s Marginalia and “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.”
Keywords
blake , reason , Imagination , Love , Panentheism
Kaynakça
- Athanasius, Alexandria of. On the Incarnation of the Word. https://ccel.org/ccel/a/athanasius/incarnation/cache/incarnation.txt.
- Basil, Caesarea of (1894). Dogmatic: Against Eunomius. In P. Schaff (Ed), Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series II. Volume 8 Basil: Letters and Select Works. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf208.html. --- (1894). Letter XXXVIII. In P. Schaff (Ed), Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series II Volume 8 Basil: Letters and Select Works. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf208.html.
- Blake, William (2008). Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion. In M. L. Johnson and J. E. Grant (Eds), Blake’s Poetry and Designs. 2nd ed. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
- --- (2008). Marginalia: On Thornton’s The Lord’s Prayer, Newly Translated. In M. L. Johnson and J. E. Grant (Eds), Blake’s Poetry and Designs. 2nd ed. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
- --- (2008). Marginalia: On Bacon’s Essays. In M. L. Johnson and J. E. Grant (Eds), Blake’s Poetry and Designs. 2nd ed. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
- --- (2008). Marginalia: On Watson’s An Apology for the Bible. In M. L. Johnson and J. E. Grant (Eds), Blake’s Poetry and Designs. 2nd ed. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
- --- (2000). The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In M. H. Abrams et al. (Eds), The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol 2. 7th ed. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
- --- (2000). There Is No Natural Religion [b]. In M. H. Abrams et al. (Eds), The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol 2. 7th ed. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
- Bentley, G. E. Jr (2001). The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
- Cooper, John W. (2006). Panentheism/ The Other God of the Philosophers: From Plato to the Present. USA: Baker Academic.