Thursday, December 20, 2012

Light

Light is a metaphor for Creation, which began some time after the
beginning of the story.  The continual breaking forth of light suggests
that Creation is not a single event but a process that goes on until the end
of Time.
Eternity is Light; mortal life is darkness (Ulro)

The word light appears 174 times in Poetry and Prose of William Blake.

From Thel:

For thou shalt be clothed in light, and fed with morning manna:


From The Little Black Boy:
Look on the rising sun: there God does live
And gives his light, and gives his heat away.      
And flowers and trees and beasts and men recieve
Comfort in morning joy in the noon day.


The Book of Los refers to the Blakean Creation (when Light began):
Chap: IV:   
I: Then Light first began; from the fires             
Beams, conducted by fluid so pure .
Flow'd around the Immense:


PLATE 54 of of Jerusalem (Erdman 203)
In Great Eternity, every particular Form gives forth or Emanates
Its own peculiar Light, & the Form is the Divine Vision
And the Light is his Garment


The Four Zoas: the end of the 5th Night (Erdman 344):
I well remember for I heard the mild & holy voice
Saying O light spring up & shine & I sprang up from the deep    
He gave to me a silver scepter & crownd me with a golden crown

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