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All Religions Are One

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All Religions are One William Blake not only wrote poems but he made illuminated works of his poems as well. In the case of “All Religions are One”, the illuminated work is the poem. He painted the poems. He began with 2 pictures one of what appears to be a man, with the words below him, “The Voice of one crying in the Wilderness.” The man is just simply sitting and pointing to his left. His second illumined work for “All Religions are One”, there is a man holding a book sitting beside stone that seems to appear to be the shape of the Ten Commandments. There is an angle standing over his shoulder. The angle has a face of not peace but of sternness. The third illuminated work is the Argument. The Argument states, “As the true method of knowledge is …show more content…

He illustrates this with the two people on cuddling one another. PRINCIPLE 4 states, “As none by travelling over known lands can find out the unknown, So from already acquired knowledge Man could not acquire more. Therefore an universal Poetic Genius exists.” A man that has traveled the entire world is the only man that can be a universal Poetic Genius. He illustrates this by the man with his walking stick, with the mountains in the background, traveling. PRINCIPLE 5 states, “The Religions of all Nations are derived from each Nation’s different reception of the Poetic Genius, which is every where call’d the Spirit of Prophecy.” All religions are formed from man traveling and experiencing the earth and different cultures and learning of each religion and creating his own form the same way they do with the appearance of everything. This is illustrated by the light shining down on the people at the top and the person with wings at the bottom which is portraying heaven and hell. PRINCIPLE 6 states, “The Jewish & Christian Testaments are An original derivation from the Poetic Genius. This is necessary from the confined nature of bodily sensation.” The poets are the ones who came up with Jewish

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