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    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    By William Blake

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    "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" is a collection of sketches touching on the subject of Good versus Evil and examining the biblical idea of "Hell" the place of eternal suffering for those who reject God. Author and poet William Blake seems to repudiate the idea of such a place and seeks to show that in fact Hell is a place of freedom for as he puts it, "The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell. For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at [the] tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and holy, whereas it now appears finite and corrupt. This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 20, 2019
    ISBN4057664182654
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    William Blake

    William Blake (1757-1827) was a nonconformist who associated with some of the leading radical thinkers of his day, such as Thomas Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft. A skilled engraver and illustrator, his illustrated poetry collections resembled the illuminated books of the Middle Ages.

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      The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake

      William Blake

      The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664182654

      Table of Contents

      THE ARGUMENT

      THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL

      A MEMORABLE FANCY

      PROVERBS OF HELL

      A MEMORABLE FANCY

      A MEMORABLE FANCY

      A MEMORABLE FANCY

      A MEMORABLE FANCY

      A SONG OF LIBERTY

      CHORUS

      THE ARGUMENT

      Table of Contents

      As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent, the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg is the angel sitting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded up. Now is the dominion of Edom, and the return of Adam into Paradise.—See Isaiah xxxiv. and xxxv. chap.

      Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

      From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil. Good is the passive that obeys reason; Evil is the active springing from Energy.

      Good is heaven. Evil is hell.

      THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL

      Table of Contents

      All Bibles or sacred codes have been the cause of the following errors:—

      1. That man has two real existing principles, viz., a Body and a Soul.

      2. That Energy,

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