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By Thomas J. J. Altizer
Within the New Apocalypse, Thomas J. J. Altizer (perhaps the main radical theologian of our age and an incredible exponent of the loss of life of God theology), advances the thesis that William Blake is the main unique prophet and seer within the background of Christendom, that he created a complete new kind of imaginative and prescient embodying a contemporary radical and non secular expression of Christianity, and that an knowing of his progressive paintings calls for a brand new type of theological figuring out.
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Now the “Bodies in which all Animals & Vegetations, the Earth & Heaven” were contained in the primordial Imagination are “wither’d & darken’d” (J. ). ” 20 \ The New Apocalypse And now the Spectres of the Dead awake in Beulah; all The jealousies become Murderous, uniting together in Rahab A Religion of Chastity, forming a Commerce to sell Loves, With Moral Law an Equal Balance not going down with decision. Therefore the Male severe & cruel, fill’d with stem Revenge, Mutual Hate returns & mutual Deceit & mutual Fear.
54:6-8) An autonomous reason or “Ratio” is accordingly a product of the Fall; moreover, its very activity reflects a fallen state in which the senses are isolated from one another and man is separated from man. Such reason manifests itself in the “Memory between Man & Man,” for memory can merely reflect the given; it simply records the brute factuality of the fallen order of time and space, and is itself the only mental activity of a fully shrunken body. Reason is the forbidden fruit, “the Atheistical Epicurean Philosophy of Albion’s Tree,” and it appears only when the feminine and the masculine are separated from Man (J.
82:42); Albion is murdered in “Dreams of Chastity & Moral Law” (J. 94:23), for “the Druids rear’d their Rocky Circles to make permanent Remembrance Of Sin” (92:24). Every ornament of perfection and every labour of love In all the Garden of Eden & in all the golden mountains Was become an envied horror and a remembrance of jealousy, And every Act a Crime, and Albion the punisher & judge. And Albion spoke from his secret seat and said: “All these ornaments are crimes, they are made by the labours Of loves, of unnatural consanguinities and friendships Horrid to think of when enquired deeply into; and all These hills & valleys are accursed witnesses of Sin.