Meanwhile Ellie and I were committed to a nationally famous small church in D. After serving it for ten years it was beginning to lose its charm for us too much structure, too much discipline, too much being told what to believe.
We tried UU they had too lavish a worship service. The next Sunday we walked into Langley Hill Friends Meeting: oh joy, no 'authority', just seek God in your own way, at your own pace. Looking back now 23 years later , and with Meredith's inducement to reflect on Blake it came to me how he had influenced our lives and our faith.
Every other 'system' had fallen short; we must create our own. Quakers believe the Light Within is what drives your life. Blake spent his whole life looking at the light within-- and reporting to us what he had found. Other men have been driven exclusively by that light within, Nietzsche, for example and Van Gogh, but they both went crazy.
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Active 6 months ago. Viewed 93 times. Improve this question. Micah Windsor Micah Windsor 1 1 silver badge 15 15 bronze badges. The title comes presumably from the William Blake poem "To Nobodaddy" , but it's not clear those are the words being sung. When he started to enter these poems, some of the pages were already covered with sketches for an aborted edition of illustrations of John Milton's Paradise Lost. Some of these sketches were preserved, while others were overwritten. Although Blake mostly worked in this notebook between and , he kept it with him throughout his life.
He picked it up again to draft further poems at the front from , and was still composing as late as Although widely recognised today as one of the greatest poets of the 19th century, his work was largely ignored during his own lifetime, and took many years to gain widespread appreciation. Can't play the file above? Blake believed that the repression of sexuality caused personal unhappiness and social ills, such as prostitution, which in turn led to poverty and venereal disease.
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Blake's religious outlook Blake and formal religion As a consequence of his philosophical views, Blake rejected formalised religion. He saw the Christianity of his day as being a distortion of true spiritual life: It changed spirituality into a system of moral laws which bound people in shame or in fear of punishment This made them obedient to society's laws and rules Organised religion was, therefore, an agent of social control, instead of a source of life and liberation It bound its adherents to the will of those in control.
This was achieved when the sinless Son of God , Jesus was crucified on a cross as a sacrificial substitute for humanity. This approach to the sacrifice of Christ was abhorrent to Blake. That is, they developed a view of God that was actually an image of themselves — jealous, possessive and tyrannical. Blake's poem To Nobodaddy expresses these attitudes about God: Why art thou silent and invisible Father of jealousy Why dost thou hide thyself in clouds From every searching Eye Why darkness and obscurity In all thy words and laws That none dare eat the fruit but from The wily serpents jaws?
The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.
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