Michael interviews Tobias Churton on the life and work of English poet and painter William Blake. Blake’s complex iconography and Idealistic philosophy is discussed and the enigmatic cast of characters in his Prophetic Books analyzed. Are they demiurgic archons, psychological types, or metaphors for pathological states of consciousness. Was Blake a Christian, Gnostic or Atheist? Was he a dissenter and iconoclast? What do his strange poems and paintings mean? What did he mean by the terms Imagination, Poetic Genius, Fourfold Vision, Albion and Jerusalem? This and more…
Program References
Muggletonians
English Dissenters
Dissenters
Nonconformist
Isaac Watts
William Law
Joseph Priestly
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Jacob Bohme
Behmenism
George Berkeley
St. Martin
Antoine Fabre d’Olivet
Gnosticism
Nous
Neo-Platonism
Adam Kadmon
Joseph Frank
Isaac Luria
Vedanta
Atman
Bishop Irenaeus
Panentheism
Julian Jaynes
Kathleen Raine
Neville Goddard (on Blake)
Beulah
Urizen
Four Zoas
