Sunday, July 26, 2009

More William Blake Mythology

I will go to battle to obtain some juicy knowledge. And battle it was to obtain the information in this blog. No need to thank me, but believe me, it was unpleasant. The professor who specialized in William Blake is getting old and cranky (or cranker then before, which was bad to begin with.)
One quick example of his mental state: He recently brought home a cat he named, "Squeak", because (as the professor insists) the cat, "was born without a voice box". When I met his new cat I had never heard such excited purring. The professor is going deaf! The cat has a purr box and uses it whenever possible.
Recently the professor was forced into retirement. On a lonely vacation in the mountains of Northern California, we roasted marshmallows at his lakeside cabin, he smoked weed, and I manically scribbled the following notes on Blake:
-Please note that there are probably many spelling mistakes. Also the accuracy of some minor facts may be in question. I did my best to stay true to this informal lecture.

There are four Zoas that make up God:
1.)Urizen
2.)Tharmas
3.) Luvah/Orc
4.)Urthona/Los.
Excuse the blue color please!
These Four Zoas correlate to the body as follows:
1.) head
2.)heart
3.) lions
4.) imagination (paramount to William Blake's Mythology)
Each Zoas creates a conflict in us.

Refer to the previous blog on Blake to compliment this one.

After God created another in his image but female, he was so overwhelmed by her beauty that he fell to his knees and shattered into a billion little fragments that fell to earth. The 'Big Bang' in human history is the process of the zoas aligning in peace with one another.
Unlike Christianity, Blake's explanation is that God's life began After the fall. After this shattering and falling to Earth. Christians believe the opposite, that creation began before this big bang and the start of Adam and Eve. Blake believed it started after God and his female creation shattered and fell to Earth. We are all shattered fragments of God trying to align our 'zoas' and be at peace.
A few facts about life 'after the fall'
1.) When God shattered and fell, his genitals overpowered his mind.
2.) The fall equals creation.
3.) The ONE-NESS you had in you before the fall can be repaired with one's imagination. Imagination is the most important of the zoas. Unity and the Power to create fit into this zoa.
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You can really tell that the information was hard to organize. In my notes I have something about, 'specters' 'Jerusalem being some metaphor for unity and reason overthrowing lust. So this blog is just a rough draft. I'll print it out and have the professor add more. Hopefully his mood will have improved enough for me to not want a bottle of Valium just to be in his presence.
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More notes (very rough draft notes):
Jerusalem is a woman and a city. She stirs in her sleep from the nightmare about "The Fall". The Earth is magnetised with Eros- sexual energy surrounds all of us.
When God spoke, his WORD created human history (English majors, eat it up!). His words created the world.
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After the fall human love contained sexuality. We get love back by our imagination. Love kills sexuality, and makes us innocent again.

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