WORDS OF WILLIAM BLAKE


"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
Blake explains that,
"Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion,
Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are necessary to Human existence.
From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil.
Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing
from Energy. Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell."

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