Paradise or Eden - in the mythology of William Blake it is:
1) Earthly Eden , according to Blake, is a “fruit garden” created by Urizen , awakened from a deadly sleep by the voice of the firstborn man of Orc . [2]
2) Heavenly or spiritual Eden or Paradise - the abode of the Divine Family of the Immortals. Eden represents human perfection. This is "Heaven of Man", his permanent home. Eden is "fourfold" and "human." This is one of the four worlds or states of the Universe along with Generation , Beula and Ulro . This is “God's garden” and “the edge of Life”, in which there are “golden mountains” and “mountain palaces”, cloths where “clothes of immortality” [3] and “wheels inside wheels” are woven, which “rotate freely in peace and harmony ". [4] Four rivers flow in the same place - these are four branches of the “River of Life”, representing the four Zoa, whose names are Urizen , Urtona , Luva and Tarmas . [5]
Notes
- ↑ Watercolor , approx. 1805 at the Tate Britain Gallery, London
- ↑ First book of Urizen, 20:41.
- ↑ Jerusalem, 38:53.
- ↑ Jerusalem, 3:20 p.m.
- ↑ Damon, p. 114-115
See also
- Spawn
- Beula
- Ultra
Literature
- Bentley, Gerald Eads (Jr.) / Bentley, GE (Jr). The Stranger From Paradise . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
- Bloom, Harold / Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
- Damon, Samuel Foster / Damon, S. Foster. A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake. Published by Brown, Providence, Rhode Island, 1965/1973 ISBN 0870570889 / ISBN 9780870570889
- Zverev / Alexey Matveevich Zverev, ed., Commentary, vst. article / William Blake. Poems. Moscow. Progress, 1982
- Ostraiker, Elisha ed. / The Complete Poems of William Blake, Ed. by Alicia Ostriker, Penguin Books, 1977
- Fry, Northrop / Frye, Northrop. Fearful Symmetry . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
- Erdman, David W., eds. / David V. Erdman, ed. The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake. Anchor, 1965/1982/1988, ISBN 0-385-15213-2