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reflecting one’s very own illumined image as Imago Dei, the image that ceasing to elude the self from the self, returns the self to the self, turning absence into presence: Being. And in Being, what dwells amidst the manifold voices, not ephemeral, recollecting the glorious maxim of the Grecian deity of deities, O Apollo, “Know Thyself and You Shall Know the Gods?”9
At the Delphic Oracle, Apollo rejoices: Blake enters Eternity. Blake sees Blake as Blake, image and reality, in the streams of his Poesy, in the Prophecy of the Heavens, God’s Being. His prophetic and poetic sublimities, made of symmetries and asymmetries, begin to decipher himself and God begins to blossom in Blake’s Poesy of contraries, the Metaphysics of Necessity, at the Gate of Mythoi and Logoi, the necessary Gate towards the sublime-sublime: Poiesis’ Gate, the Metaphysics of Splendor: the final synthesis of Mythoi and Logoi. And Wondrous is her Way 3⁄4 Enchantment.
If journeying through Tragedy’s Way, Poetry becomes Philosophy, and Mythos, Logos; through the Wondrous Way, Philosophy becomes Poetry, Pure Poiesis.
9& 7-1 Delphic maxim inscribed in the pronaos (forecourt) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Pausanias. Description of Greece. London: Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library, 1918. 10.24
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