“ Good is the passive that obeys Reason Evil is the active springing from Energy. ”
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790). copy citation
| Author | William Blake |
|---|---|
| Source | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
| Topic | good |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell |
Context
“See Isaiah XXXIV and XXXV Chap:
Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.
From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason
Evil is the active springing from Energy.
Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.
The voice of the Devil
All Bibles or sacred codes. have been the causes of the following Errors.
1. That Man has two real existing principles Viz: a Body & a Soul.”
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