| ‘Vision, or imagination,’ writes Blake, ‘is a representation of what actually exists, really and unchangeably. Fable, or allegory, is formed by the daughters of Memory.’ A vision is, that is to say, a perception of the eternal symbols, about which the world is formed, while allegory is a memory of some natural event into which we read a spiritual meaning. In vision the meaning chooses its own symbol by a kind of affinity, while in the case of allegory we choose out some corporeal accident, and build into our memory of it a little vision, for allegory, according to Blake, contains ‘some vision’ always, and lifts it up into a personification of a spiritual or natural meaning. |
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How this reads to me is that there's a mystery in how William Blake expressed that allegory has at it's roots the faculty of 'vision or imagination' because ".... allegory, contains 'some vision' always and lifts it up into a personification of a spiritual or natural meaning."
Psychiatry has moved far away from the way Sigmund Freud first wrote it down. C. G. Jung's breakthrough was to recognize that a process of human individuation exists, and that a certain pattern is 'inherent' in man: "my work has scientifically proved that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at it's disposal the greatest transforming energy of which mankind is capable."
A process of personalization as well as very great depersonalization was initiated in my life through a 'bond' that has been experienced without my knowing it existed in man. The process began to set up a basis for 'discovering it', and 'naming it', when I was very young, and after 1984 I felt driven to do just like Adam done, to name everything that was brought before him. I'm just a typical female. The personalization of every day events to the degree that a kind of communication is experienced, and information one didn't know originally has been conveyed through it, rules out the scientific method as a means to prove and verify anything so uniquely 'my experience'.
When a mode of communication is such that it moves steadily through generations of individual lives, over a span of time that is measured in decades rather than hours or minutes, the 'signal like' attribute of that mode of communication may be impossible to detect by 'normal' methods of study.
It has been my experience to witness the use of memories that were so uniquely mine as well as a few events that happened when I was a young girl to inform me in a specific way that on this planet I was not alone when those memories were 'installed'. .
"Gott würfelt nicht (God does not play dice)" Albert Einstein remarked when a flaw in his ideas was pointed out to him. It seems to me, from experiences of my own, that 'God' does gamble, does take risks, does even play a kind of 'game' in Time, so that at some point in Time, "It's" mode of communication will be distinct and understood by all who receive it. This was written in Jeremiah, that the time would come when 'all shall know that I AM God', and no man will need to say to another, that there is a God.
William Blake and Emanuel Swedenborg are two individuals who wrote that they were merely 'secretaries' , the hand that wrote what they received. Swedenborg did not write poetry; he did not use parables, metaphor, allegory, myths, or fable: he explained how to understand the Bible as 'representations' of history and psychologically conveyed information!!
Any individual into whose very mundane daily life is 'sprinkled' at first, and then eventually flooded with a 'new (to me) kind of event' that generates an unpleasant body response, a sense of mental confusion, may in my opinion, be driven to do exactly what God asked Adam to do: "Name what you see, describe what you see, "