William Blake  - Quotes

 The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.



For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.
 

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James Joyce  - Quotes

 There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. 

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William Blake  - Quotes

 The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. 

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Meister Eckhart  - Quotes

 I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will! 

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