Berlin, Germany
The quote comes from “Proverbs of Hell,” a chapter in William Blake’s gnostic text The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The book has been interpreted as an anticipation of Freudian and Jungian models of the mind, illustrating a struggle between a repressive superego and an amoral id. It has also been interpreted as an anticipation of Nietzsche’s theories* about the difference between slave morality and master morality.
(the wiki)
*cf: in particular Nietzsche’s camel – lion – child model of human thought and behavior as outlined in Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen / Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (1883-1885).
Portions of this post appeared originally on December 5, 2009.
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The Thought Experiment 
March 2, 2011 at 10:55 pm |
When did Blake’s writing become classified as gnostic. Is it just there as gnostic for gnosis or as categorisation? If for the latter, he wouldn’t like that.
Still, anyone who is interested in Batman and Will Blake becomes interesting to me.