All Religions Are One Analysis

William Blake’s writing promotes the concept of the human being accessing what Blake sees as the very purpose of life the poetic genius. Blake essentially condones breaking through the shackles society has put on its citizens. Blake, in his writings, All Religions Are One, The Book of Urizen, and Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Great Albion explores both actions of accessing and separating from the poetic genius. Blake contrasts the concept of poetic genius with the divisions such as time and space created from the human beings separating from it, effectively, keeping human beings from eternity. Therefore, Blake’s writing values the human being’s ability to access the poetic genius to the highest importance believing it will allow humans to

He’s truly saddened at the separation asking Albion: “Where hast thou hidden ty Emanation lovely Jerusalem” [4:10] reflecting Blake’s own awareness of how much damage this separation can cause the world. Blake displays this awareness in “To the Deists”, calling the deists “Enemies of the Human Race & of Universal Nature” [52:8] for their belief in the concept of a natural religion. In the before mentioned writing All Religions Are One, Blake concludes “all Religions & as all similars have one source/ The true man is the source he being the Poetic Genius” [Principle 7th: 3-8] effectively making the deists belief in a natural religion in direct conflict with Blake’s view. Blake culminates his view of deists with blaming them for the murder of Jesus; a man who Blake saw fully embodying the divine human being. Therefore, the deists belief in the concept of natural religion took away an example of what Blake was trying to make people strive to achieve; the accessing of the poetic

Blake wants everyone to access in themselves the one thing the all share, the poetic genius. The writings of All Religions Are One, The Book of Urizen, and Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Great Albion convey Blake’s want of this limitless eternity through their exploration of the poetic genius. In theory, he wants to see all the limitations, divisions, and separations fade away into unified eternity reflected in Jerusalem through his declaration: “Heaven, Earth, Hell, henceforth shall live in harmony” [3:9]. However, even in this want there’s a level of dismal at the unlikelihood of Blake’s vision coming to past evident in the allowing of Albion to come back together with many of the divisions still intact in the world. Therefore, Blake was a realist disguising himself as an optimist; he just wanted to inspire someone to look past the shackles of limitation. After all, Blake saw a way out from the structuralized nature of the world through the accessing of your poetic genius; a revelation he felt needed to be share with the public. Therefore, Blake’s promotion of the poetic genius was his way of trying to move past the limitations he sought to