The positive aspect of visionary activity in mortality is a constant seeking after the revealed truths of imagination, which are comprehended in Jesus.
“I know of no other Christianity” he writes “than the liberty both of body and mind to exercise the Divine Arts of Imagination … The Apostles knew of no other Gospel. What were all their spiritual gifts? What is the Divine Spirit? Is the Holy Ghost any other than an Intellectual Fountain? … What are the Treasures of Heaven which we are to lay up for ourselves? Are they any other than Mental [i.e. Imaginative] Studies and Performances? What are the Gifts of the Gospel? are they not all Mental Gifts?”
What Blake states thus impressively in his prose, is stated under a bewildering variety of apparently unconnected symbolic episodes, in Jerusalem. Man, or Albion, is the battle-ground wherein the forces of imagination contend against the forces of natural religion: Jesus against Satan: Los against his spectre: Vala or Babylon against Jerusalem, till error is consumed and Albion reascends into the bosom of the Saviour. Yet, in spite of formlessness and incoherence in statement, the underlying body of doctrine is remarkably consistent. In the later Lambeth books, Blake seems to have written under a jaded inspiration. Here, however, the very intensity of his conviction and the fecundity of his imagination, militated against lucidity and order. Moreover, he deliberately adopted the symbolic medium as translating his visions with less of the distracting associations of ordinary experience than must have beset normal speech. And, if his visions were unintelligible, the fault lay in the reader, who had neglected to cultivate his imaginative faculty; in Blake’s sweeping condemnation, they were “fools” and “weak men,” not worth his care. Aesthetically, Jerusalem suffers much from this perversity, though the poet in Blake at times masters the stubborn mass of his symbolism, turning it for a brief space to forms of beauty or power. And there always remains the high nobility of the gospel which he proclaimed, and according to which he lived.






To back up my assertion that christian sourced values were revolutionary.
Again I state I am not a christian ; an atheist buddhist, or more simply an existentialist.

Bowie, years ago I used to frequent a bikers bar on the A1, this was a favorite at the time.



I watch it again years later at SongKran, with a different viewpoint.

Conan the Barbarian, lawd that brings back memories. The cutting off the head.

Arnie was in form back then.

No problemo, nothing to with referencing.

Leads me onto another question, what is your attention span before you give up?

Mine can range from 10 seconds (listening to farang bores), to 20-30 seconds of music (heard it all before Oasis) to 10 hours, reading a book straight through from start to finish.

If its a documenatry (Russia Today, Al Jazeera, CCTV etc) I can sit and watch for 3 or 4 hours.

^^^^ Wow, a bowie badge of honour, satu na krap.

A double edged sword.
I need people to shake me out of my arrogance; to read other opinions to strengthen my own resolve.
I do not want agreement, although that would be a false ideal, I seek the dialectic,( Marxist jargon) of opposition and reasoning.
Not Leninist or Maoist,cult worship, intellectual reasoning.
Marxism is now divorced from the political factioning, it is an economic philosophy which is rooted in existentialism its philosophical arm.
Can go back to the revolutionaries of the past, Paine, Voltaire, Blake, Robespierre, Washington, Marx, Sartre etc.
Not writing a thesis tonight, but thank god it is raining.