18 - RECEIVING & GIVING

There is no receiving without giving; there is no giving without receiving.

William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Plate 14

                                                                                                  

19 - MODUS OPERANDI

Transformation is the mode of operation.

Yale Center for British Art

William Blake  

Jerusalem

Plate 97

20 - METAMORPHOSIS

 We must die to be born again.

British Museum
William Blake
Dedication to Blair's 'Grave'
1807

21 - THE MESSAGE

 God has declared creation to be good.

Yale Center for British Art 
William Blake

Illustrations to Poems of Thomas Gray

22 - CHANGE

God intends change. We are to change ourselves, to change others, to be changed by others.

Illustrations to 
Robert Blair's
The Grave

23 - ESSENCE OF LIFE

Nothing static is alive; to live is to change.

William Blake 
Ezekiel

24 - NEW AWAKENING

We are always on the verge of a new awakening.

British Museum
William Blake
Study for America

 

25 - THE DOOR AWAITS

The key is in the lock, the door awaits opening. Can we turn the key, open the door, and walk through?

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William Blake
Jerusalem
Plate 1

26 - WE ARE MEMBERS

We are members of one another.

Yale Center for British Arts
William Blake
Jerusalem   
Plate 85 

 

 

27 - WHAT WE ARE GIVEN

We are given enough light to take the next step.

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William Blake's Illustrations to
Edward Young's Night Thoughts

28 - GRATITUDE

 The attitude of gratitude opens the windows of our hearts.

National Gallery of Art
William Blake
Job and His Daughters, 1799/1800
Rosenwald Collection

29 - DIFFERENT TIMES

There is a time to reflect, and a time to participate.

William Blake
Illustrations to Milton's
Il Penseroso
Wikimedia

30 - BEING FORGIVEN

We cannot give love if we cannot accept forgiveness.

William Blake
Woman Taken in Adultery

31 - FORGIVING

 We cannot receive love if we cannot forgive others. 

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William Blake
Milton
Plate 41

32 - WHEREVER WE LOOK

The image of God can be found wherever we look.

British Museum
William Blake's Illustrations to
Edward Young's Night Thoughts

33 - REALITY

Spirit is the real; matter is the illusion.

William Blake

The Reunion of Soul and Body
Illustrations to Blair's  Grave
Courtesy of Wikimedia

34 - OUR TASK

Our task is to see the real through the illusion.

Web Gallery of Art
William Blake
The angel rolling away the stone from the sepulchre

35 - FRAGMENTS OF REALITY

We see a sliver of reality which can contribute to an image with other slivers.

William Blake 
Enoch
Lithograph, 1806-7

36 - COMMUNITY

Without the awareness of a community my perceptions are incomplete.

British Museum
William Blake's Illustrations to
Edward Young's Night Thoughts

37 - VOID

Darkness is a void without independent existence.

British Museum
William Blake's Illustrations to
Edward Young's Night Thoughts

38 - WHEN LIGHT APPEARS

Darkness disappears when light appears.

William Blake
Illustrations to Milton's
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

39 - THE SPIRIT

If we open ourselves to the spirit, we receive.

British Museum
William Blake's Illustrations to
Edward Young's Night Thoughts

40 - THE END

 The end is the beginning.

William Blake
Frontispiece for
Blair's  The Grave

41 - TIME'S DIMENSION

 Time is a cross-section of eternity.
 

British Museum
William Blake's Illustrations to Edward Young's Night Thoughts

42 - TIME

We experience time as a thread not yet woven into the cloth.

William Blake
Illustration to  
Robert Blair's The Grave.