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The Work of William Blake with Valentin Gerlier

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The Power of Awakening

Ever since Plato, I think creativity has been associated with madness. So there is perhaps a sense in which we could go too far, but from Blake's point of view, rather go too far than live a life in slavery to assist and a moral code that is that is oppressing us. But I think I think that this kind of awakening into presence that I'm talking about is really where the senses, the bodily senses, as well as the spiritual senses are fully, fully awake. They can grasp that all finite things are actually translucent with infinity. And that's what the human is called to do. That's its job in the grand scheme of things.

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