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"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not to be believed."

"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not to be believed."

Read along: "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" by William Blake

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Nov 21, 2021
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"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not to be believed."
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Hello friends,

The Irish poet, W.B. Yeats once wrote that “the chief difference between the metaphors of poetry and the symbols of mysticism is that the latter are woven together into a complete system.” When he wrote this, he was speaking explicitly about the mystic we just read, Emmanuel Swedenborg, and the mystic we are reading today, William Blake. I…

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