(04-16-2015, 12:19 PM)isis Wrote:(04-16-2015, 02:59 AM)Confused Wrote: William Blake
Gotta love William Blake!
The Ancient of Days, 1794
Quote:Blake loved this image, the frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy, and made several copies. The old man is Urizen, in Blake’s mythology the embodiment of reason and law and a repressive, satanic force trying to bring uniformity to mankind. (In America a Prophecy, Urizen is the evil god who rules during the Enlightenment.) Here he is seen kneeling in a flaming discus surrounded by dark cloud, hand held over a compass, apparently measuring the black void. A copy was commissioned from Blake during the final days of his life. He worked on it, tinting the colours, as he was propped up on his sickbed.
That bit of information on Urizen is highly intriguing, isis. Wonder what that prophecy from Blake implies. Though, I am not a deep fan of prophecies, because for me, they could militate against the concept of free will, when taken absolutely.