One by Blake

ALL Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors:

1. That Man has two real existing principles: Viz. a Body & a Soul.

2. That Energy, call’d Evil, is alone from the Body; & that Reason, call’d Good, is alone from the Soul.

3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.

But the following Contraries to these are True:

1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call’d Body is a portion of Soul discern’d by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

2. Energy is the only life, and is from the Body; and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

3. Energy is Eternal Delight.

William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1793