William Blake

“ Poor Spiritual Knowledge is not worth a button,
For thus the Gospel Sir Isaac confutes:
‘God can only be known by his Attributes,
And ass to the Indwelling of the Holy ghost
Or of Christ & his Father, it’s all a boast
And Pride & Vanity of the imagination,
That disdains to follow this World’s Fashion.’
To teach Doubt & Experiment
Certainly as not what Christ meant. ”

“ If he had been Antichrist, Creeping Jesus,
He’d have done any thing to please us;
Gone sneaking into Synagogues,
And not us’d the Elders & Priests like dogs,
But Humble as a Lamb or Ass
Obey’d himself to Caiaphas. ”

“ This Life’s dim Windows of the Soul
Distorts the Heavens from Pole to Pole,
And leads you to Believe a Lie
When you see with, not thro, the Eye,
That was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the Soul slept in the beams of Light. ”