03-23-2020, 04:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2020, 04:32 AM by Blazkovitz.)
Another symbols I like from Blake are Rahab and Tirzah. Both are seductive and cruel goddesses.
Blake was critical of the Enlightenment, so he always slagged off Voltaire and Rousseau. Blake associated Voltaire with Rahab, a deity symbolizing arrogant intellect in his personal mythos. In fact Voltaire was almost like a Bolshevik without the class struggle. He supported autocratic rule of "enlightened" tyrants like Catherine and Frederic and of course wanted civilization to subdue nature. Then Rousseau was a spokesman of Tirzah, the goddess of sex, desire and wild nature.
China would be Rahab made a country. All forms of authoritarian modernism like Marxism exhibit Rahab's traits, and so do proto-modernist societies like Thomistic Catholic Church, the Roman Empire and its successors in Germany and Russia (who called itself Third Rome).
Tirzah would be represented by pop-culture, and the countercultures that worship sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Modern American Left is Tirzah made a political movement.
Blake was critical of the Enlightenment, so he always slagged off Voltaire and Rousseau. Blake associated Voltaire with Rahab, a deity symbolizing arrogant intellect in his personal mythos. In fact Voltaire was almost like a Bolshevik without the class struggle. He supported autocratic rule of "enlightened" tyrants like Catherine and Frederic and of course wanted civilization to subdue nature. Then Rousseau was a spokesman of Tirzah, the goddess of sex, desire and wild nature.
China would be Rahab made a country. All forms of authoritarian modernism like Marxism exhibit Rahab's traits, and so do proto-modernist societies like Thomistic Catholic Church, the Roman Empire and its successors in Germany and Russia (who called itself Third Rome).
Tirzah would be represented by pop-culture, and the countercultures that worship sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Modern American Left is Tirzah made a political movement.