Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
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with the scientific mind in the abstract, and more especially with
Newton. [78] This is the principle called occasionally by Blake, and always by Boehme, the "Mirror," or "Looking Glass." Blake's names for these four principles, as seen in the world, in contracted form, are Urizen, Luvah, Urthona, and Tharmas. [79] Possibly in some such way as Mozart, when composing, heard the whole of a symphony. "Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts _successively_, but I hear them as it were all at once" (Holmes's _Life and Correspondence of Mozart_ 1845, pp 317-18) [80] _Cf._, for instance, "To be an error, and to be cast out, is a part of God's design" (_A Vision of the Last Judgment_, Gilchrist's Life, ii. p. 195); and Illustrations 2 and 16 to the Book of Job, see the commentary on them in _Blake's Vision of the Book of Job_, by J. H. Wicksteed, 1910, p. 21 and note 4. It is interesting to note that, as Mr Bradley points out (_Shakesperian Tragedy_, pp. 37, 39, 324, 325), it is a cognate idea which seems to underlie Shakesperian tragedy, and to make it bearable. [81] See the whole exposition of the Job illustrations by Wicksteed, and specially p. 37. [82] _In no Strange Land._ Selected Poems, 1908, p. 130. [83] For other examples of the expression of this idea of the "Following Love," the quest of the soul by God, especially in the anonymous Middle English poem of _Quia amore langueo_, see _Mysticism_, by Evelyn |
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