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12524938 No.12524938 [Reply] [Original]

Blake isn't even a Romantic, he's a straight-up Gnostic prophet. Nobody seems to get this except Aleister Crowley, who had no idea what to do with it.

>> No.12524941

>>12524938
literally everyone understands that he's primarily a mystic

>> No.12525004

>>12524938
Not true
Iain McGilchrist says Blake is in a league of his own, having to do with his work on the brain hemispheres
Blake gets plenty of love

>> No.12525977

>>12524938
Jung also saw him in that manner, if I recall.
Antonin Artaud was essentially the Blake of the 20th century, both took from esotericism and were considered insane by their contemporaries.

>> No.12526499

>>12524938
Gnosticism is death. Wisdom is life.

>> No.12526517

Blake began as a poet; later he lost heart and turned prophet

>> No.12527509

Does anyone know where I can find the essay Crowley wrote about Blake, when he canonized him as a Thelema Saint? The only place I can find it is $100+ for a paperback book.