... ). This God was figured as an authoritarian deity in Blake's engravings, as an old man with flowing white hair too old to father children, whose commandments are the negative 'Thou shalt not' with which most of the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament begin. This false, jealous God of Experience is distant, threatens punishment and rules by fear. In Blake's personal ... ...

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