luka
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Having read up to the expulsion from the garden what impresses itself on me is how the Holy text brings the counter-text into being, and thus, I suppose, how God gives rise to Satan.
It is there, between the lines, always present, the very nature of holy writ makes this necessary and inevitable.
Paradise Lost is, as Blake pointed out, that counter-text, the advocacy of Satan.
The opposition between knowledge and obedience also seems fundamental and unavoidable, written into the very nature of what is. I don't think this can be evaded. He-Who-Knows-What-Is-Best-For-You (and I don't doubt, actually, that He does) is in opposition to Experience. Experience is the road to death. The wages of sin is death. Again this is in Blake, part of what is folded in to Blake's notion of Experience.
It is there, between the lines, always present, the very nature of holy writ makes this necessary and inevitable.
Paradise Lost is, as Blake pointed out, that counter-text, the advocacy of Satan.
The opposition between knowledge and obedience also seems fundamental and unavoidable, written into the very nature of what is. I don't think this can be evaded. He-Who-Knows-What-Is-Best-For-You (and I don't doubt, actually, that He does) is in opposition to Experience. Experience is the road to death. The wages of sin is death. Again this is in Blake, part of what is folded in to Blake's notion of Experience.