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Author | : Marsha Keith Schuchard |
Publisher | : Inner Traditions |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2008-04-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781594772115 |
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The secret and mystical sexual practices at the heart of William Blake’s creative and spiritual life • Reveals newly discovered family documents connecting Blake’s mother and Blake himself to Moravian and Swedenborgian erotic and visionary experimentation • Shows Blake had access to kabbalistic and tantric techniques of psychoerotic meditation, which used sexual arousal to achieve spiritual vision William Blake (1757-1827) has long been treasured as an artist and poet whose work was born out of authentic spiritual vision. The acutely personal, almost otherworldly look of his artwork, combined with its archetypal casting and depth of emotion, transcend societal conventions and ordinary experience. But much of the overtly sexual work has been destroyed or altered, deemed too heretical by conservative elements among the mystic Moravians and Swedenborgians, whose influence on Blake has been uncovered only recently. The author’s investigation into the radical psychosexual spiritual practices surrounding William Blake, which includes new archival discoveries of Blake family documents, reveals that Moravian and Swedenborgian erotic and visionary experimentation fueled much of Blake’s creative and spiritual life. Drawing also upon modern art restoration techniques, Marsha Keith Schuchard shows that Blake and his wife, Catherine, were influenced by secret kabbalistic and tantric rituals designed to transcend the bonds of social convention. Her exhaustive research provides a new context for understanding the mystical practices at the heart of Blake’s most radical beliefs about sexualized spirituality and its relation to visionary art.
Author | : Marsha Keith Schuchard |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
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This work offers a new insight into the work of William Blake. The discovery of Blake family documents led to a radical cast of characters including Cagliostro, Zinzendorf and Swedenborg, and to a world of waking visions, magical practices, sexual-spiritual experimentation, tantric sex and free love.
Author | : Alexander Gilchrist |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Blake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 1789 |
Genre | : Illumination of books and manuscripts |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Susan Sommers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2018-04-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190687339 |
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Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship. Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.
Author | : Charles Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Literature, Modern |
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Author | : Harold Clarke Goddard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1956 |
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Download Blake's Fourfold Vision Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Blake |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2022-11-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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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."
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2009 |
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Author | : Lloyd C. Welling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780615924731 |
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