"Expect poison from the standing water..."

"The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is false, as there has never been from Hell. For the cherub with his flaming eyes was hereby commanded to leave his guard at the tree of life and when he does the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and holy where as now appears finite and correction. This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment."

But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be extinguished; this I shall do by printing in the infernal method, by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, metting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear as it is, infinite.

"For man has closed himself up; till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks in his cavern."

Ficelle: © 1974

William Blake, states in the Preface to his Poems, that he

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