The narrator of this book journeys past Saturn with an angel to show him a house where chained monkeys tear off and devour each others' limbs and a mill containing the skeletal body of Aristotle's Analytics.
The narrator of this book journeys past Saturn with an angel to show him a house where chained monkeys tear off and devour each others' limbs and a mill containing the skeletal body of Aristotle's Analytics. Near the end of this book, the narrator describes seeing a figure in a flame of fire who tells an angel that Jesus "was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules," causing the Angel to embrace the fire and arise as Elijah. It begins with the invocation "Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air; / Hungry clouds swag on the deep," and includes a series of proverbs such as "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." This book claims "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite," and calls Milton "a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it." This satire of the works of Swedenborg identifies the first title location with passivity and the second with energy. For 10 points, name this illuminated book by William Blake which reverses orthodox conceptions of the Christian afterlife.
The narrator of this book journeys past Saturn with an angel to show him a house where chained monkeys tear off and devour each others' limbs and a mill containing the skeletal body of Aristotle's Analytics.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell