William Blake's Religious World

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  • William Blake の宗教世界

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In Christianity, man inherits original sin and is considered to live a sinful existence. Because of sin, man is separated from God. Contrary to this view, William Blake, although born in the Orthodox Christian world, did not take sin so seriously. According to Blake, it is Selfhood, not sin, that destroys humanity. In this point, he seems to differ from Christianity. Selfhood identified with Satan, or Spectre, destroys the harmonious unification of God, man and nature. That unification is the most important and uppermost mental stage for Blake and he defined it as Imagination, which could be recognized as satori or enlightenment in Buddhism.

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