ABSTRACT
This chapter uses Jerusalem as the basis for extrapolating the dimensions of Blake’s myth. In the first part, after indicating how Blake repudiates the three material laws of thought (the law of identity, the law of (non)contradiction and the law of the distributed middle), the chapter focuses on his endorsement of the six esoteric characteristics. These include four intrinsic beliefs: (1) all parts of creation correspond to each other; (2) all nature is alive; (3) there exists a non-empirical intellectual faculty; and (4) everything can be transmuted. In addition, there are two extrinsic: (5) all esoteric traditions derive from a single source, and are consequently equally valid; and (6) this knowledge must be authenticated. The second part is devoted to the symbolic form. After the symbols are identified individually, complementarity is identified as the logical principle governing their organization, and the transformation of negations into contraries as their characteristic operation.
