Ausgeborgte Poesie

All Religions are One
The Voice of one crying in the Wilderness
(by William Blake)

The Argument. As the true method of knowledge is experiment the true faculty of knowing must be the Faculty which experiences. This faculty I treat of.

PRINCIPLE 1^st That the Poetic Genius is the true Man. and that the body or outward form of Man is derived from the Poetic Genius. Likewise that the form of all things are derived from their Genius, which by the Ancients was call'd an Angel & Spirit & Demon.

PRINCIPLE 2^nd As all men are alike in outward form, so (and with the same infinite variety) all are alike in the Poetic Genius.

PRINCIPLE 3^d No man can think write or speak from his heart, but he must intend truth. Thus all sects of Philosophy are from the Poetic Genius adapted to the weaknesses of every individual

PRINCIPLE 4 As none by travelling over known lands can find out the unknown. So from already acquired knowledge Man could not acquire more. therefore an universal Poetic Genius exists

PRINCIPLE 5 The Religions of all Nations are derived from each Nation's different reception of the Poetic Genius which is every where call'd the Spirit of Prophecy.

PRINCIPLE 6 The Jewish & Christian Testaments are An original derivation from the Poetic Genius. this is necessary from the confined nature of bodily sensation

PRINCIPLE 7^th As all men are alike (tho' infinitely various) So all Religions & as all similars have one source.

The true Man is the source he being the Poetic Genius

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Also mal ehrlich, Eigenlob stinkt. Überlassen wir diese süffisisant-verspielte, durchaus ironische Betrachtung lieber dem Genie William Blake. Die Dichter dieser Welt können froh sein, daß jemand die Bürde des Eigenlobs auf sich genommen hat um sie zu rühmen. Außerdem sind wir alle froh, daß Mohammed bei der Geschichte keine Rolle spielt, sonst müßten nun leider alle Dichter verbrannt werden, denn sie sind ja hiermit dem heiligen Schöpfer gleichgesetzt worden - und es könnte ja nicht angehen, daß einer wie William Blake oder Heinz Erhardt es gewesen sein soll, der die heilige Schrift in die Feder des Propheten diktiert haben soll.

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