Such an AweI-Inspiring talk. Mark conveys a well researched and deep understanding of the subject. For me, this provides a blueprint of how yo live. Thank you so much Mark.
Thank you Mark I did these poems as part of the Irish Leaving cert ....I wish I had this lecture all the way back then 40 yrs ago. I thank the rigorous education I had then (st Louis Nuns but mostly lay teachers) they introduced me to this wonderful poet and I've love him ever since. And you explain it so well ...you are more than 👏 amazing. Thank you
Neville quoted Blake ALL the time! “God became as we are, that we may be as he is,” he would say! And this message is all over the Internet now! Thank you! This was a most beautiful lecture & I’m so very grateful it came up in my feed to learn more about this giant of a poet & enlightenment! Thank you, greatly! ♥️🙏🏼
Neville misrepresented Blake’s mythology. The former believed that we were gods in a psychological sense which makes no sense. Neville was a mixture of pseudo theologian and personal growth guru. Some people said Neville was also a mystic, there is nothing to prove it. His conferences are filled with gibberish that sounds good but means nothing. He was an excellent motivator though.
You got it wrong. Blake was against the enlightment”. Blake with his poetry tried to rationalize the irrational of the myths when enlightment was about bury Christianity. Unless for “enlightment” you meant a difference thing.
A truly wonderful talk - so much insight, so relevant. And really appreciate your gentle, engaging style. What a genius was Blake! I know I shall find myself reflecting for some time - and probably relistening.
Thank you for this wonderfully insightful lecture into Blake’s life & works! I just found this after listening to a lecture entitled ‘Blake on Religion’ by Neville Goddard (1904 - 1972.) Another mystic who had Blake’s complete works & also, who had similar experiences! Greatly appreciated! 🙏🏼✨ I do so love ‘Jerusalem!’
Difference experiences, that’s right. For Blake did not deny the existence of biblical characters like angels, Neville said he received revelation that nothing in the Bible was truth, but just a psychological drama. The former looked to improve the religious experience, the latter to support new age and new thought through his very personal view of the Bible.
I loved the part about looking through the window! This reminded me of the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew letters & it’s significance in both these deceased Mystic’s (Neville Goddard & Dr. Joseph Murphy) explanations on the Hebrew letter He/Hey! Murphy being from England & Neville being from the West Indies & both taught by the same mysterious teacher! Neville would always take his 2 most important books with him on trips everywhere: The Bible & other books not in the canon, which me also considered The Bible & Blake’s Complete Works, to which he was introduced in the 1920’s/30’s, while on a dancing tour with his troupe from NYC! He encouraged his students to get a copy of Blake’s Complete Works. I’m so happy to know more about Blake & only faintly remember his named mentioned in English classes in school & in my poetry class in college, I don’t remember Blake mentioned once! 😳 And that is very bizarre to me! (I’m in New England, where I went to those schools.) I do remember Dr. Wayne Dyer, (now, also passed) Therapist & author, quoting Blake regarding: “This life’s dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.”
Why can we not be nationalistic? The English have created a 'world' of wonder - scientific, literary and artistic - and these have been shared with the rest of the world. There is huge amount of which to be proud. Yes, we must be humble, inclusive and generous, but listen to this lecture, complete self-destruction is no good for us or anyone else either.
I can only imagine that the future of Blake in Christianity will be as dismal as the future of Catharism long ago. Then again, Dante was accepted by mainstream religion some seven hundred years after his apostacy. I suppose the title was clickbait. That said, I'm powerfully intrigued by the idea of creating reality by the power of the imagination. I think that Dante was doing this too. I really believe he was trying to change not just us but our notion of God too. It’s what poets do. The idea of moving mountains. Mountains like slavery, women's liberation, sexual freedom etc. I think Blake meant these things. William Wilberforce might be an example of seeing your imagination through to reality. It is the angels in the tree. I'm reminded of the James Taylor lyric in Country Road 'I can see a heavenly bandful of angels coming for to set me free'. In other words, we do it, if we see the need.
...?... Blake's future in Christianity is assured or not by the Holy Spirit, in the long run. Christianity is growing on Earth in 2022, not declining in numbers - and was never more strong than now. The West has been under the spell of blatantly obvious forces of constant attrition - in a clandestine and very powerful attempt to subvert and ridicule it - and to propagate and spread lies and innuendo... It is hated by many - just as was perfectly described by Christ in His prophetic teachings. Christ came to divide us... It is still 2022 "AD" - and the yearly calendar will eternally point back to the source of all Light (for obvious reasons!) - and the Bible is still the world's largest selling book on this planet - a fact, for those that rejoice in this, or for those that don't. The first word of the National Anthem and of the Royal Seal shall always be 'God' - the cross shall always symbolically sit atop the Royal crown, and the sceptre, and the orb - and the massively powerful cross of St George still flies just as does the radical/radial design of Christian power inherent in the Union Jack. Christ said, "I have overcome the WORLD" - at the moment in the Gospel when He knew He'd done it - the job was done - He'd won the future of all Mankind for Christian Eternity. Nearly 2000 years after His death, we can see He had indeed done just that. He also said He'd come to divide us, not unite us. We are all free individuals to make of this what we will. BUT, it is all as clear as could be. What He brought us was God's LOVE and a New start to God's entire world... A New happy and glorious covenant for ALL individuals to enter into Eternal joy and peace after death for those that wanted it. It's all REAL! It is the absolute truth, and Blake was a believer in Eternity through Christ. Blake was a special individual who was a Christian. He was an English imaginer - and the true English love outsiders and eccentrics,... He was also in part a true gentleman of a loving kind. He is part of the peripheral weft of English Christianity... as well as being a giant of poetry. God Bless and/or good luck to all who read this.
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You're fast becoming one of my favourite intellectuals /academics
Second that
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@@Philosophe422 are you a PHILOSOPHER? 🤔☝️🤔
Service is vast! He has inspired and challenged our imagination, thank you William Blake.
Such an AweI-Inspiring talk. Mark conveys a well researched and deep understanding of the subject. For me, this provides a blueprint of how yo live. Thank you so much Mark.
Wonderful talk. Thank you so much.
Thank you Mark I did these poems as part of the Irish Leaving cert ....I wish I had this lecture all the way back then 40 yrs ago. I thank the rigorous education I had then (st Louis Nuns but mostly lay teachers) they introduced me to this wonderful poet and I've love him ever since. And you explain it so well ...you are more than 👏 amazing. Thank you
Much love Mark! Thank you so much!🦋🕊🌹
Beautiful work. thank you.
simply brilliant!
Brilliant and lacklustre are RELATIVE. ;)
Man, Mark, you just keep hitting them out of the park! Very enjoyable.
Excellent Mark. Brilliant. Thank you for an immensely illuminating, enjoyable, awe-inspiring tour of the profundity of William Blake
Mark thank you for such a glorious intro to Blake his beatific visions and wonderful spiritual insights.
Neville quoted Blake ALL the time! “God became as we are, that we may be as he is,” he would say! And this message is all over the Internet now! Thank you! This was a most beautiful lecture & I’m so very grateful it came up in my feed to learn more about this giant of a poet & enlightenment! Thank you, greatly! ♥️🙏🏼
Love it!
Neville misrepresented Blake’s mythology. The former believed that we were gods in a psychological sense which makes no sense. Neville was a mixture of pseudo theologian and personal growth guru. Some people said Neville was also a mystic, there is nothing to prove it. His conferences are filled with gibberish that sounds good but means nothing. He was an excellent motivator though.
You got it wrong. Blake was against the enlightment”. Blake with his poetry tried to rationalize the irrational of the myths when enlightment was about bury Christianity. Unless for “enlightment” you meant a difference thing.
This is so idealistic. Love it!
Just what I needed, thank you Mark 🙏🙏🙏
A truly wonderful talk - so much insight, so relevant. And really appreciate your gentle, engaging style. What a genius was Blake! I know I shall find myself reflecting for some time - and probably relistening.
Wonderful! ☺ (from Green Fire) 🌈🦉
Thank you for this wonderfully insightful lecture into Blake’s life & works! I just found this after listening to a lecture entitled ‘Blake on Religion’ by Neville Goddard (1904 - 1972.) Another mystic who had Blake’s complete works & also, who had similar experiences! Greatly appreciated! 🙏🏼✨ I do so love ‘Jerusalem!’
Difference experiences, that’s right. For Blake did not deny the existence of biblical characters like angels, Neville said he received revelation that nothing in the Bible was truth, but just a psychological drama. The former looked to improve the religious experience, the latter to support new age and new thought through his very personal view of the Bible.
Very influential writer in my youth. Everyone should read Blake ❤
Jesus is our saviour. Be kind, patient, understanding, and forgiving.
I loved the part about looking through the window! This reminded me of the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew letters & it’s significance in both these deceased Mystic’s (Neville Goddard & Dr. Joseph Murphy) explanations on the Hebrew letter He/Hey! Murphy being from England & Neville being from the West Indies & both taught by the same mysterious teacher! Neville would always take his 2 most important books with him on trips everywhere: The Bible & other books not in the canon, which me also considered The Bible & Blake’s Complete Works, to which he was introduced in the 1920’s/30’s, while on a dancing tour with his troupe from NYC! He encouraged his students to get a copy of Blake’s Complete Works.
I’m so happy to know more about Blake & only faintly remember his named mentioned in English classes in school & in my poetry class in college, I don’t remember Blake mentioned once! 😳 And that is very bizarre to me! (I’m in New England, where I went to those schools.)
I do remember Dr. Wayne Dyer, (now, also passed) Therapist & author, quoting Blake regarding:
“This life’s dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to
pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through,
the eye.”
Dr Joseph Murphy was Irish.
At 3:15 min in the angle corrects itself.
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Does believing we will live forever help us now? Yes because it removes fear of death, if not fear of suffering whether physical or mental.
Imagine being such a good poet and teacher you get immortalized upon death so that you may live forever in the memory and minds of men.
Why can we not be nationalistic? The English have created a 'world' of wonder - scientific, literary and artistic - and these have been shared with the rest of the world. There is huge amount of which to be proud. Yes, we must be humble, inclusive and generous, but listen to this lecture, complete self-destruction is no good for us or anyone else either.
FYI, Felpham is about 20 miles from Petworth. Not really that close
I can only imagine that the future of Blake in Christianity will be as dismal as the future of Catharism long ago. Then again, Dante was accepted by mainstream religion some seven hundred years after his apostacy. I suppose the title was clickbait. That said, I'm powerfully intrigued by the idea of creating reality by the power of the imagination. I think that Dante was doing this too. I really believe he was trying to change not just us but our notion of God too. It’s what poets do. The idea of moving mountains. Mountains like slavery, women's liberation, sexual freedom etc. I think Blake meant these things. William Wilberforce might be an example of seeing your imagination through to reality. It is the angels in the tree. I'm reminded of the James Taylor lyric in Country Road 'I can see a heavenly bandful of angels coming for to set me free'. In other words, we do it, if we see the need.
...?... Blake's future in Christianity is assured or not by the Holy Spirit, in the long run.
Christianity is growing on Earth in 2022, not declining in numbers - and was never more strong than now. The West has been under the spell of blatantly obvious forces of constant attrition - in a clandestine and very powerful attempt to subvert and ridicule it - and to propagate and spread lies and innuendo... It is hated by many - just as was perfectly described by Christ in His prophetic teachings.
Christ came to divide us... It is still 2022 "AD" - and the yearly calendar will eternally point back to the source of all Light (for obvious reasons!) - and the Bible is still the world's largest selling book on this planet - a fact, for those that rejoice in this, or for those that don't.
The first word of the National Anthem and of the Royal Seal shall always be 'God' - the cross shall always symbolically sit atop the Royal crown, and the sceptre, and the orb - and the massively powerful cross of St George still flies just as does the radical/radial design of Christian power inherent in the Union Jack.
Christ said, "I have overcome the WORLD" - at the moment in the Gospel when He knew He'd done it - the job was done - He'd won the future of all Mankind for Christian Eternity.
Nearly 2000 years after His death, we can see He had indeed done just that.
He also said He'd come to divide us, not unite us.
We are all free individuals to make of this what we will. BUT, it is all as clear as could be.
What He brought us was God's LOVE and a New start to God's entire world... A New happy and glorious covenant for ALL individuals to enter into Eternal joy and peace after death for those that wanted it. It's all REAL! It is the absolute truth, and Blake was a believer in Eternity through Christ.
Blake was a special individual who was a Christian. He was an English imaginer - and the true English love outsiders and eccentrics,... He was also in part a true gentleman of a loving kind. He is part of the peripheral weft of English Christianity... as well as being a giant of poetry.
God Bless and/or good luck to all who read this.
In your own words, define "REALITY".
No. Use a dictionary.
@@brendantannam499 so, do you ADMIT that you use words of which you have no idea of their meanings, Slave? 😬
@@brendantannam499 good for you! I think that guy is a troll.
Dude was England's first rapper
But more elegant and sort of romantic.
There’s only two men that I can actually say for positive that got the Christ consciousness that was Blake and Neville Goddard in the last 300 years
They that can escape the mundane mind can see anything go anywhere learn anything ...................>
S. T. Coleridge ♥️
Ta Mark
wow. too bad he didn't appreciate the passive modality and it's contribution to creativity.
Blake was as sexually perverted as Sade. But because he was a 'great Christian thinker (an oxymoron)' that makes it alright...
Stfu you accuser. Go be with your lover the devil.
How was he perverted? I thought he was faithful to his wife?
@@iraqiimmigrant2908 Blake still longed for a multi-ethnic harem.
@@williamoarlock8634 Yikes! That does sound degenerate.
Wonderful talk! Thanks a lot!!!