ABSTRACT
William Blake is saying that everything that lives is holy because God is incarnate in every human life: a great and simple affirmation; words incredible, indeed quite meaningless, to those under the domination of popular atheist humanism. Certainly it is not the view of science, in Blake's century or in our own, nor even of all professed Christians; for the churches are only too ready to capitulate to materialist science. Not surprisingly as science gained ground the churches lost confidence; but Blake saw that the mistake of the churches lay in ever having accepted the premises of science in the first place, since by doing so they opened the way to atheist materialism. Blake describes the god of the Deists as a self-delusion of the 'mortal worm', 'a shadow from his wearied intellect'. Blake's fiery vision has nothing to do with extra-sensory perception.
