ABSTRACT
For an abstract and impersonal God, William Blake maintained, is the invention of the rationalising Spectre, and is the sort of God invoked and adored by all Urizenic religions and philosophies, from the “Abstract Philosophy” of “Brama in the East” to Hermes Trismegistus and the Rational Logos of “Pythagoras Socrates & Plato” in the West. These great Urizenic religions are founded on the belief that God is more than Man. This assumption or ideology is called “natural perception” or “natural religion”, and is the basis of all contemporary materialistic religions, the modern offspring of “Newton & Locke”. Urizen thinks that the rational way of interpreting reality is better, precisely because it regards it as a non-human way: as not contaminated by all the dreadful subjective, personal, living, emotional, dimensions that Urizen is terrified of and from which he feels thoroughly detached and alien.
