ABSTRACT
In order to clarify Williams Blake’s critique of both orthodox religion and post-Newtonian science as sharing a common Urizenic basis, the author uses the metaphor of rival operating systems. This may help to explain Blake’s contention that both systems of thought obey the same basic program and are expressions of the same power. In the Urizenic words of Steven Weinberg: “one of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious”. Cardinal Ratzinger’s statement reveals the fascinating insight, one that powerfully supports Blake’s contention of the Urizenic nature of both religion and science, that being “faithful to reason”, as Ratzinger so illuminatingly puts it, was—and is—a cardinal concern for the Holy Roman Church.
