... power in man, and apart from man the idea of God has no meaning. When Blake speaks of the divine, it is with reference to this power and not to any external or independent God or deity. So Blake asserts that God is not a cosmic monarch on a distant throne but the omnipresent dweller within each receptive human soul. In the words off Kathleen Raine, "...in religious ... a time when greedy upper class capitalists exploited the working class for personal profit. Blake was around during the time of deism, a faith that denied any direct experience with God, in which the minds of the more int...

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