William Blake and the Prophetic Imagination
- William Blake (1757–1827) saw himself as a prophet of the Everlasting Gospel, calling for the overthrow of "Urizen" (the Demiurge) and the restoration of "Albion" (the Divine Human).
- His illuminated books—The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Jerusalem—are Gnostic, alchemical, and apocalyptic, a mythopoetic resistance to Newtonian materialism and Anglican rigidity.
- He embodies the Bardic Mystery Tradition—where art, vision, and prophecy are one.