William Blake d Aug 12 1827. He lived in a world that prized reason, order, moderation—values he disdained. Instead he prized Imagination—not simply creative fancy but Insight: a capacity to see reality in its full spiritual dimension.
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His art and poetry were the expression of his spiritual vision—a kind of protest against everything acceptable in religion and art in his day: the moralism that passed for virtue; the hypocrisy and dogmatism of organized religion; the ugliness and cruelty of industrialism.
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Obsessed by the figure of Christ, he felt that the churches had emptied Christianity of its revolutionary content; they had transformed the gospel into a religion offering little alternative to the spirit-numbing values of the world.

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There was much that was peculiar in his vision. Merton: his rebellion “was fundamentally the rebellion of the saints...the rebellion of the lover of the living God,” who shows that the “only way to live is to live in a world that is charged with the presence and reality of God.”
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