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The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive. | |||
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive. | And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country, placing it under its mental deity. | ||
Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of & enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. | |||
And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country, placing it under its mental deity. | |||
Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. | |||
Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of & enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. | And at length they pronounced that the gods had orderd such things. | ||
Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast. | |||
Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. | |||
And at length they pronounced that the gods had orderd such things. | |||
Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* The text comes from the poem ''[https://blakearchive.org/copy/mhh.h?descId=mhh.h.illbk.11 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]'' by poet William Blake. The | * The text comes from the poem ''[https://blakearchive.org/copy/mhh.h?descId=mhh.h.illbk.11 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]'' by English poet William Blake. The broken code for displaying an image refers to the plate from which the text originates. | ||
[[File:The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 11.jpg|thumb|Plate 11 of William Blake's ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'', as would likely have been seen from the incomplete hex string. Retrieved from [https://blakearchive.org/copy/mhh.h?descId=mhh.h.illbk.11 blakearchive.org].]] | [[File:The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 11.jpg|thumb|Plate 11 of William Blake's ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'', as would likely have been seen from the incomplete hex string. Retrieved from [https://blakearchive.org/copy/mhh.h?descId=mhh.h.illbk.11 blakearchive.org].]] | ||
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blake_archive_793.html is a text document stored in terminal B08 in Star World B.
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<img src="plate11.png"></nowiki> The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of & enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the gods had orderd such things. Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.
Notes
- The text comes from the poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by English poet William Blake. The broken code for displaying an image refers to the plate from which the text originates.
