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Love cleanses the doors of perception
Friday, 1 December 2023 at 21:14
Love cleanses the doors of perception
Liberation from fallen thought, the illusory medium of false ‘reality’ in which most of us spend our lives; where is it to be found? If living in a falsely perceived medium is no life, in other words, death, where is the source of resurrection? There is one source and that is Love, and Love is God. Many people experience a glimmer of the life beyond death, but it is usually snuffed out, often by Urizen, the demiurge of the false ‘reality’, and his followers. Union with the Divine seems impossible, because there is no identity between being and thinking.
The conditions must exist for the Logos to incarnate, but it does not have any other arouser and awakener than Love. Once Love is found, the Logos is found. The Logos virginally fertilises the soul. This moment coincides with the Creation. The presence of the Logos is realised because it is perceived. The doors of perception are opened. ‘If the doors of perception were cleansed,’ William Blake wrote, ‘everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.’
Love cleanses the doors of perception… for the elect that is. The rest, the innocents, are condemned to an existence in Beulah, from where rises constantly the nauseating refrain ‘we just want to be happy… we just want to be happy’. The followers of Urizen are only too happy to sell the delusional means to happiness… through loans with interest.
The murderers of Love contaminated the doors of perception, and continue to do so. The followers of Ananke, the worshippers of Urizen, the Pharisees of every age, would have the struggle for life cease. Their goal? A world of undifferentiated oneness, forever, undisturbed and inevitable. When the struggle for life ceases, when Love dies without resurrection, all is lost.
They that dwelleth without love, what are they?
The anti-Love; the masonry of hate; the children of Urizen.
Root them out, pleads Eros to the Innocents, root them out.
(From ‘Children of Urizen’, The Mythology)
Man must and will have some religion; if he has not the religion of Jesus, he will have the religion of Satan, and will erect the synagogue of Satan, calling the Prince of this World ‘God’
(From Selections from ‘Jerusalem’ ‘To the Deists’, William Blake)
© John Dunn.
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