Blake: The Real Man The Imagination

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”

William Blake's "Ancient of Days", as inspired by Proverbs 8:27

(The first part of our conversation about Blake’s mystic perspective may be found here.)

Near the end of his life, in a letter to a friend, William Blake wrote,

“I have been very near the Gates of Death and have returned very weak and an Old Man feeble and tottering, but not in Spirit and Lif…