ty to ruin as many people spiritually as it enfranchised politically. It is this great fear that impassions the request made to the Lamb:“Come to my arms & never more Depart, but dwell for ever here:Create my Spirit to thy Love:Subdue my Spectre to thy Fear.(27:69)It is however not a wish that will be granted. Indeed humanity is destined to be forever as Sisyphus, rolling the boulder of our time up the mountain only to watch it fall again. For Camus and Blake before him, the Salvation is never in pushing the boulder, but in the imagined victory over both the boulder and the mountain that exists in the time between when the rock reaches the bottom of the mountain again and before we start begin pushing. In that brief respite lives all the mental freedom we ever need to defeat both Adam and Satan who put us there. Just as the critics will never allow Blake away from the tradition carried by Milton, but in his head he has the freedom to move forward in his own literary undiscovered country. The searching Spectre of Los lands in the third chapter into a trial of sorts, between those factors that would believe in a faraway God who has entrusted his children to run orderly or amok as they see fit, and Blake’s own vision of Jesus. Blake’s condemnation is far reaching in its attacks of all of organized Christianity and in fact any State religion. He rejects Bacon, Newton, and Locke as the new Gods, and those who would follow them. To replace these newfound Gods Blake provides a vision of Jesus as a Luvah who took the place of the dying Albion. It is here in Blake’s sacrificial imagery that another major dualism exists. The notion that, “The crucified Christ is a vision of irresistible fate, and illustrates what man has always done in the world…and will always be fated to do as long as he remains in the state of existence in which fate is to be found.(Frye, 400)” The insistence here is that if we cou...
