Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) explore contradictions inherent in human nature, and connect ultimately to religion as well, in the way his quoted text does. This distinction he makes between “angels” and “devils” as it is defined in this text (with his idea of evil conceived as a force with the potential to bring change) can be seen lucidly in his poems as well. Evil is Hell.”īlake explains, in his book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, that the contrary nature of god is reflected by all his creation, and that progression in life is impossible without these contraries. Evil is the active springing from Energy. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are necessary to Human existence.
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