William Blake's Religious World

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In Christianity, man inherits original sin and is considered to live a sinful existence.Because of sin, man is separated from God. Contrary to this view, William Blake,although born in the Orthodox Christian world, did not take sin so seriously. Accordingto Blake, it is Selfhood, not sin, that destroys humanity. In this point, he seems to differfrom Christianity. Selfhood identified with Satan, or Spectre, destroys the harmoniousunification of God, man and nature. That unification is the most important and uppermostmental stage for Blake and he defined it as Imagination, which could be recognizedas satori or enlightenment in Buddhism.