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> If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. - William Blake I don't know of any evidence he experimented wi
by heurisko 5y ago
> If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.
- William Blake
I don't know of any evidence he experimented with drugs, however he was influenced by the Swedenborgian and Moravian sects of London who espoused a spiritual sexuality, which Blake called "Beulah" in his mythology.
The "doors of perception" for Blake were rather his idea that the world exists as human imagination "Jerusalem", and for him the Fall was the fall from this state through the creation of the physical world, as referenced in the next part of the quote
> For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
As now in our fallen state we can only perceive parts of the infinite through our senses.