Such a vision of the imagination and the symbol had “one foot in the empirical and one foot in the ideal or transcendental.”42 It was a third space, a middle world that linked all human experience and all human beings. It was also, I should point out, the “boldest reply” to the problems of human diversity and unity, since such a model could explain why the religions were so different and yet so very similar: they were all expressions of the same creative imagination working its wonders in different contexts and cultures. Little wonder that Blake would pen an early little book called All
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