William Blake on the Last Judgement, Apocalypse & Final Things.

The Last Judgement, William Blake argued, is not a terrifying forthcoming rapture but an awakening present moment, “Whenever any Individual Rejects Error & Embraces Truth".
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[@TheJakecakes]

Thank you Mark. It took me 6months to read the Commedia as an autodidact. Im pleased I read Dante prior to tackling Blake. I have no formal education in reading poetry but I have had a personal revelation after reading Dante and the Bible as well as some of the Gnostic texts, that reading this material is essential for a well rounded worldview and spiritual education. I am struggling a bit to fully grasp Blake in its totality. I'm also not positive he meant us to read it exactly as he meant it. There seems to be an active element through the reader. These commentary videos of yours have been monumentally helpful. Ty you so much 🙏

[@glendaoleary8007]

mark, u are a great teacher

[@Bluewildangel]

Magnificent thank you for this

[@otarkaeones1135]

thanks for making this video. Do you know if there is a book that contains all or several of Blake's versions of the final judgments?

[@PlatosPodcasts]

I don't..

[@lpowers]

Ulro (Hell) is mass materialist modern society. But Goolganooza can be built in the eternal act of creation.

[@binra3788]

The world we made -not in truth- but by taking the mind of judgement as a mutual masking agreement to 'run with' as our own creation set in a split mind and split world of pride and fall or boom and bust, is in error. The last judgement in principle is the undoing of any private capacity to judge reality. This is the Holy Spirit that restores awareness of truth to the recognition and acceptance of release of error, rather than persistence in its frame of self-judgements projected to a world cast out. Our collective or social masking of reality is no less a set of judgements given priority and protection. Our individual contributions to a true willingness in place of judgemental narratives set as morally superior or necessary BY the frame of resisting evil, are our part in a whole brought out from under a bushel, not to shine for themselves but for all, even as the 'sun shines equally on both the righteous and wicked'. So yes to the opening of Heaven as a state that is nigh but not in the world of projected shadows against which to struggle and die in vanity.

[@binra3788]

You didn't comment on the horned beast in the centre above the cave.

[@cynthiaford6976]

I have a wild off topic question that occurred to me when I was reading your Dante book, and reading along with 100 days of Dante, and simultaneously reading The Immortality Key: do you think it might be possible that Dante participated in underground vestigial entheogen rituals on the coast of Italy? "The love that moves the sun and stars" resonates so deeply with near death experiences and psilocybin research. Just a thought. Thanks for the talk on Blake!

[@caracopland710]

Yes I do. The secret law... alchemy and craft. All the greats did. I’m positive his artwork contains its own ‘immortality key’- like Jungs artwork too- sounds crazed but I think it’s more than possible. It’s true. ✌🏻🧡🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌈👀👏🏻

[@crookedfingerjack]

Educated to live in a room, learning too late there are no windows or doors we spend the rest of our lives looking for a way out. Awakening is realizing the room does not exist. In his book Gray Eminence, Aldous Huxley explains the disappointment of religious ambition and its entrapment of the spirit from freedom. Interesting, thank you.

[@amywas1]

Very stimulating as always. I am reading Bloom's "Give me life" at the moment. A very short book. Falstaff's language is compared with the "bread and wine" of life - to be savoured. Falstaff, not just a great wit but "the source of wit in all men" is very much Bloom's hero. My comment might appear a little bit obtuse - but I had a sudden revelation regarding Shakespeare using Hal as a moniker for "War like Harry" while listening to this. It has always troubled me, why Hal and suddenly, Hal was Hell...which probably doesn't make my comment appear any less obtuse. But the other thing that Bloom attributes to Falstaff is the is the motto: Thou shallst not moralise. The other thing Bloom also lays bare is the Biblical "blue print" behind Falstaff which is the story of Lazarus and the Rich man or Dives. Hal of course has many other interesting linguistic associations in words like "Halucination" and perhaps more interestingly to those of us who are wondering what the HAL is going on, it is the name of that infernal AI computer in Kubrik's Space Oddysey.

[@amywas1]

Dos't thou hear, Hal? never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit: thou art essentially mad without appearing so, says Falstaff to his friend and the "heir apparent" who eventually betrays him and knows him not.