An original AEthel-gram from The Church of William Blake, dated 1976
ABOUT GOLGONOOZA: The English Church in the Wilderness
THE CHURCH of William Blake
This place is a fury hidden. In America. In Ohio. Building Four-fold London. How is Virtue related to Fredom? They are Both Liscensec by tyrants, who are mild. Who is more Satanic: The Tyrant or the Genius. The Genius is one fox ahead of the Ruins. And heaven continues to decay; having delegated Time To Poetic Genius, who has it to burn. Don't ask Blake. And don't Take it from the mouth-pieces of Jesus. The Living Man is not Reiterative. Go to the Horses Mouth; which is ever falling. From the Cliffs of Albion. Golgonooza is a Place Sanctified. – – but Sub-lunar Avatars, only went the Tartary distance of Descent: Blake. And he is no Object of Worship. He is an Exmplar. And he construes in the Intellect the sleep of Albion.
(Albion Awake, page 33)
Till We have built Jerusalem
In England's green & pleasant Land.
Wm. Blake
Would to God that all the Lord's people were Prohets.
Numbers XL Ch., 29 v.
'Oh! what wonders are the children of men! Would to God that they would consider it – – that they would consider their spiritual life, regardless of that faint shadow called natural life, and that they would promote each other's spiritual labours, each according to its rank, and that they would know that receiving a prophet as a prophet is a duty, which, if omitted, is more severely punished that every sin or wickedness beside.'
Blake's letter to Haley, 11 December 1805
(Albion Awake)
AETHELGRAMS; OR ETC,
I think the greatest Mystery is the Stem. Do we know that the Sister of Blake's Created System have led the Tree of Albion Out by its stems to Babylon? More and more we come to know It as out Vegetable Powers exercise the Howling Wind that Blows across our Bosom. To be nailed to those stems, To Nail down the leading propensities of our Desires to Those Stems requires and act of Genius.
(Albion Awake, page 58)
PHOTOS BY: RICK CALLAHAN
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