70. Poems, ed. Grosart, 1874, p. 134.
71. See Additional Table Talk of S. T. O., ed. T. Ashe, 1884, p. 322.
72. Poems, ed. Sampson, p. 305.
73. See Mysticism, by E. Underhill, pp. 282-286, and specially the passage from the Fioreth of St Francis of Assisi, chap, xlviii., quoted on p. 285.
74. Notes to Lavater.
75. From version γ2 in Poetical Works, ed. John Sampson, 1905, p. 253.
76. Poems, ed. Sampson, p. 173.
77. Poems, ed Sampson, pp. 305-6, 309-10. Blake is here praying that we may be preserved from the condition of mind which sees no farther than the concrete facts before it; a condition he unfairly associated with the scientific mind in the abstract, and more especially with Newton.
78. This is the principle called occasionally by Blake, and always by Boehme, the "Mirror," or "Looking Glass." Blake's names for these four principles, as seen in the world, in contracted form, are Urizen, Luvah, Urthona, and Tharmas.
79. Possibly in some such way as Mozart, when composing, heard the whole of a symphony. "Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them as it were all at once" (Holmes's Life and Correspondence of Mozart 1845, pp 317-18)