Jerusalem Quotes

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“We become what we behold.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite & flatterer..”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body & mind to exercise the Divine Arts of Imagination
Imagination the real & eternal World of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow & in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies, when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more. The Apostles knew of no other Gospel.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labours of Art & Science, which alone are the labours of the Gospel: Is not this plain & manifest to the thought? Can you think at all, & not pronounce heartily! That to Labour in Knowledge. is to Build up Jerusalem: and to Despise Knowledge, is to Despise Jerusalem & her Builders. And remember: He who despises & mocks a Mental Gift in another; calling it pride & selfishness & sin; mocks Jesus the giver of every Mental Gift. which always appear to the ignorance-loving Hypocrite, as Sins. but that which is a Sin in the sight of cruel Man. is not so in the sight of our kind God.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“They accumulate A world in which Man is by his nature the enemy of Man”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“Imagination, the real and eternal world of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow. What is the life of Man but Art and Science?”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find,
Nor can his Watch Fiends find it, but the Industrious find
This Moment & it multiply, & when it once is found ⁠
It renovates every Moment of the Day if rightly placed”
― William Blake, The Prophetic Books of William Blake: Jerusalem - Primary Source Edition

“If I should dare to lay my finger on a grain of sand In way of vengeance, I punish the already punish'd. O whom Should I pity if I pity not the sinner who is gone astray? O Albion, if thou takest vengeance, if thou revengest thy wrongs, Thou art for ever lost!”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion