William Blakes Spirituality

The first stanza talks about the creation of Adam using the personification of the earth as "red clay brought forth". God had created Adam with dust, which brings to light the trivialization of the word create in our society; as humans we like to think we create things rather than merely assemble things to make bigger things out of them. Only God can truly create something out of nothing, as he created Adam from the ground. "The seeking serpent walks," (Blake) references that in biblical times that snakes could actually walk, Blake is revealing that we originated pure but then death came upon us when we were sought out by the walking serpent, our physically moving sin. Our spirit had been tampered with. Blake does not come right out and say that Adam ate the apple that revealed so much evil and desires, but simply says that in Genesis this had to happen; it was a divine plan for progression. God had to test us and see if we as humans could separate ourselves from the world and obey and worship him only. There is redemption though between the creation of heaven and hell. "...that the Messiah fell, and Formed a heaven of what we stole from the Abyss." (Blake). Blake's usage of the word "abyss" truly shows his tendency to portray a Dionysian energy. His descriptive text is soaked with rich and colorful imagery of the story he tells. Throughout the piece he constantly presents sets of contraries, which he states are the fuel to progression and forward thinking.

he creates this world of challenging the authority, all definitions and be found possible, you can create whats been given to you, you have to make it yourself. Unfortunately that is immoral during this time in the Catholic Church, Move away from the church and do not have that radical belief and believe on faith alone. Blake gets suspicious of the church of the priests giving the hollum and going home and saying this is church? Is this truly what god has intended for us. Only until the Victorian