letters, rather (23 August 1799) – he had this little difference of opinion with the Dr. Reverend Trusler; and Trusler said to him,
“You need someone to elucidate your ideas.”
Blake wrote him a letter saying, “You ought to know that what can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
The wisest of the Ancients discovered that that which was not too explicit was fittest for instruction, because it rouses the
faculties to act.” Then he asked the Reverend, “Why is it that the Bible is the most instructive work in this world?” Then he
answered the Reverend himself, “Is it not because it is addressed to the Imagination, and only mediately to the understanding or
reason?”
Well, the Bible is addressed to the Reality of man, for the true identity of man is Jesus Christ; and Jesus Christ is the
human imagination! That is the Lord Jesus Christ. “By him all things were made and without Him was not anything made that is
made.” [John 1:3] And that is the Creator of the world.
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