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William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker who is best known for his works of visionary mysticism and social critique. One of Blake's most notable ideas is the concept of "minute particulars," which refers to the idea that the universe is made up of an infinite number of unique and interconnected parts. Blake believed that the attention to and appreciation of these minute particulars was necessary for a true understanding of the world and the divine.
In his poetry, Blake often used the metaphor of a grain of sand to represent the importance of these minute particulars. He believed that within each grain of sand, there was a world of its own, full of beauty and meaning. To Blake, the universe was like a vast mosaic, with each individual element contributing to the overall picture. He believed that by focusing on the details of the world around us, we could gain a deeper understanding of the divine and our place within it.
One of the key themes of Blake's work is the idea of unity and interconnectedness. He believed that all things, both great and small, were connected and that the universe was a complex web of relationships. This idea is evident in his poem "Auguries of Innocence," in which he writes: "To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour." Here, Blake suggests that the beauty and wonder of the universe can be found in even the most seemingly insignificant details.
In addition to his poetry, Blake's artwork is also characterized by a focus on minute particulars. His paintings and prints often depict detailed, intricate patterns and symbols, which he believed contained hidden meaning and significance. Blake's attention to detail and his belief in the importance of the small and seemingly insignificant can be seen as a commentary on the world around him. In a time when society was focused on grand ideas and sweeping movements, Blake's emphasis on the value of individual elements and the importance of the "minute particulars" of the world stood out as a unique and visionary perspective.
In conclusion, William Blake's concept of "minute particulars" reflects his belief in the interconnectedness of all things and the value of paying attention to the small details of the world around us. This idea can be seen throughout his poetry and artwork, and continues to inspire and influence thinkers and artists to this day.
The Works of William Blake: Chapter 29
But your Greek Philosophy, which is a remnant of Druidism, teaches that Man is righteous in his Vegetated Spectre -- an opinion of fatal and accursed consequence to Man, as the Ancients saw plainly by Revelation, to the entire abrogation of Experimental Theory; and many believed what they saw, and prophesied of Jesus. It is remarkable and given the preceding history of physics, unexpected that our understanding and a rigorous physical theory of the ultimate constitution of nature required a conceptual architecture or, again, a theoretical imagination that was in its key aspects closer to Blake than to Newton, qualified as this proximity may be. That is, these possibilities allow us only to make a choice between two different types of effects of the interaction between quantum objects and measuring instruments upon those instruments, thus making the measuring technology an irreducible factor in all quantum phenomena. Though annihilated, it still exists, and the Eternal Man serenely acknowledges and accepts it. Think in the morning.
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Minute Particulars: The Theory and Practice of William Blake's Artistic Credo
The world may exist apart from us, although Blake would not accept this. If I were pure I should never Have known Thee: if I were unpolluted I should never have Glorifièd Thy Holiness, or rejoicèd in thy great Salvation. Blake might have found fractals interesting, but, I think, ultimately boring, however intricate a given set may be such as that of the famous Mandelbrot set, to which his poetic method has been compared in recent years. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1987. The Primeval State of Man was Wisdom, Art, and Science.
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[The Holiness of Minute Particulars]. Selections from 'Jerusalem'. William Blake. 1908. The Poetical Works
So we have a clue, at least, to the real meaning of the first Augury of Innocence. And I askèd a Watcher and a Holy One Its name. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. Such is the Forgiveness of the Gods, the Moral Virtues of the Heathen, whose tender Mercies are Cruelty. Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction vs. What is now proved was once only imagined.
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Blake’s Trial Documents
Notes The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, specifically on Tintoretto, and on the Baroque concept of the line, pp. Condn for s d. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite: Princeton: Princeton UP, 1990. We are required to see something that actually is in a grain of sand. Jerusalem Such Visions have appear'd to me, As I my order'd course have run: Jerusalem is nam'd Liberty Among the Sons of Albion. Complete Poetry and Prose.
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William Blake: Religion and Psychology: Minute Particulars
No doubt the 'Bible soaked Protestant, William Blake, got this figure from Matthew 9:20: "And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment. And this conflict in time between the Threefold Sexual and the Fourfold Human, this usurpation of the place of the Spirit by the Specter, is precisely the happening in which, for Blake, consists the Fall of Man regarded as an eternal event. Collection of The Petworth House, Sussex, National Trust. It is the way of participating in the creative process through immersion in God's love. Accordingly, these phenomena may be seen as a form of organization or order, enigmatically formed, since each such event in itself is random.
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William Blake: Religion and Psychology: A Minute Particular
As models of thought, which metaphorically move with infinite speed and metaphorically in both a particle and a pilot-wave manner, they may be interesting, and once suitably de-mathematized, are close to Blake. Title Minute Particulars: The Theory and Practice of William Blake's Artistic Credo Publication Type Thesis Year of Publication 1987 Authors Advisor Institution Syracuse Language English Keywords Abstract The central idea of William Blake's artistic credo was his notion of minute particulars, which cannot be comprehended without a full understanding of Sir Joshua Reynold's idea of general nature. This expansion gives more, even infinitely more, than that continuum which we see and it also gives a different form of refinement of our intuition — refinement by enrichment, rather than by a mathematical or philosophical reduction. The beautiful Daughter Of Albion delights the eyes of the Kings; their hearts and the Hearts of their Warriors glow hot before Thor and Friga. Even from the depths of Hell His voice I hear Within the unfathom'd caverns of my Ear. Still, Blake, I think, would resist such a mathematical reduction of his spaces, lines, or points; and, as quantum mechanics appear to tell us, it may be that he was right even as concerns physics, insofar as nature resists our mathematical abstractions.
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William Blake: 33 Life
General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars, And not in generalizing Demonstrations of the Rational Power: 10 The Infinite alone resides in Definite and Determinate Identity. He whose face gives no 11. And if this is true, it follows that the Churches have turned Christianity into the very thing that Jesus fought. Establishment of Truth depends on destruction of Falsehood continually, On Circumcision, not on Virginity, O Reasoners of Albion! Our thinking about thinking still negotiates between these two conceptions, for Blake by dispensing with the first, the mathematical one, nearly altogether. Is that Mild Zion's hill's most ancient promontory, near mournful Ever-weeping Paddington? We see on the screen only traces of the collisions between quantum objects and the screen. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. If He intended to take on Sin The Mother should an harlot been … Or what was it which He took on That He might bring salvation? These phenomena are wave-like because, in a certain circumstances, as explained above, this accumulation has a wave-like or wave-interference-like and, hence, ordered collective pattern.
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Minute Particulars and Quantum Atoms: The Invisible, the Indivisible, and the Visualizable in William Blake and in Niels Bohr
I feel bad at not having visited for a very long time, but there have been other priorities such as health issues, now resolved. The Religion of William Blake By John Middleton Murry    With William Blake, we must take a plunge: the quicker the better. For him, the Fall of Man consists in his losing this vision of the Minute Particulars; the Redemption consists in his regaining the vision. Twelvefold I there behold Israel in her Tents; A Pillar of a Cloud by day, a Pillar of Fire by night Guides them; there I behold Moab and Ammon and Amalek, There Bells of silver round thy knees, living, articulate Comforting sounds of love and harmony; and on thy feet Sandals of gold and pearl; and Egypt and Assyria before me, The Isles of Javan, Philistia, Tyre, and Lebanon. As far as my Hammer and Anvil permit, Go tell them that the Worship of God is honouring His gifts In other men, and loving the greatest men best, each according To his Genius, which is the Holy Ghost in Man: there is no other God than that God who is the intellectual fountain of Humanity.
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