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Following a brief examination of religion as a general human phenomenon, in both the past and present, I will focus predominantly on Blake's career, beginning with a pair of brief early texts, All Religions are One and There is No Natural Religion, in which Blake establishes, in the former, his outlook on religion as a universal principle of the human psyche and, in the latter, his objection to the development of contemporary movements which placed humanity itself at the center of. Their religious impulses. Following this, I will apply the understanding obtained in those two texts to an analysis of Blake's more robust \"prophetic canon\" in an exploration of the poet's personal myth system. The focus will predominantly focus on a trio of Blake's most significant original characters: Urizen, Los, and Orc, and the cycle of human suffering and redemption which is represented in their strife with one another. At last I will arrive at an approximation of the personal religious ideology suggested in Blake's canon, and assess some of its implications and applications to the modern reader.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. Please include the item's persistent URL [http://hdl.handle.net/. . .] in your request.**"]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["William Blake and the Net of Religion"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Christian, Diane","English"],"dc:creator":["Spellman, Zach; 0000-0002-9021-0161"],"dc:date":["2025-02-21T21:44:57Z","2020"],"dc:description":["M.A.","This thesis will explore the development of ideas about religion through the literary career of William Blake, with an eye toward the present and our current understanding and response to notions of religion and religiosity in the modern world. 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Following this, I will apply the understanding obtained in those two texts to an analysis of Blake's more robust \"prophetic canon\" in an exploration of the poet's personal myth system. The focus will predominantly focus on a trio of Blake's most significant original characters: Urizen, Los, and Orc, and the cycle of human suffering and redemption which is represented in their strife with one another. At last I will arrive at an approximation of the personal religious ideology suggested in Blake's canon, and assess some of its implications and applications to the modern reader.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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