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Blake’s Critique of Transcendence$
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Peter Otto

Print publication date: 2000

Print ISBN-13: 9780198187196

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187196.001.0001

The Last Judgement

Chapter:
(p. 303 ) 12 The Last Judgement
Source:
Blake’s Critique of Transcendence
Author(s):

Peter Otto

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187196.003.0013

This chapter examines Emanuel Swedenborg's thoughts about the Last Judgement in relation to the Ninth Night of William Blake's The Four Zoas. It suggests that the events of the Ninth Night should be located in the same year as the Last Judgement, which according to Swedenborg occurred in 1757. Thus the Ninth Night achieved the same division between inner and outer worlds as the inhabitants of Swedenborg's Christian heaven.

Keywords:   Emanuel Swedenborg, Last Judgement, The Four Zoas, William Blake, Christian heaven, judgement

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