[53] See Mysticism, by E. Underhill, pp. 162-166.

[54] The Ancren Riwle, ed.  J. Morton, Camden Society, 1853, pp. 397-403.

[55] Fire of Love, Bk. 1. cap xvi. p. 36.

[56] Ibid., Bk. i. cap. xv. p. 33.

[57] See Mysticism, by E. Underhill, pp. 228, 229.

[58] Fire of Love, Bk. i. cap. xvi. p. 36.

[59] Ibid., Bk. ii. cap. iii. and xii.

[60] Fire of Love, Bk. i. cap. xv.

[61] Ibid., Bk. ii. cap. vii.

[62] Enneads, vi.  Sec.Sec. 8, 9.

[63] See The Authorship of the Prick of Conscience, by H. E. Allen, Radcliffe College Monographs, No. 15, Ginn and Co., 1910.

[64] Revelations, ed.  Warrack, pp. 21, 178.  All the quotations which follow are taken from this edition of the Revelations.

[65] Revelations, p. 135.  It Is interesting to compare the words of other mystics upon this point; as for instance Richard of St Victor in Benjamin Minor, cap. 75, or Walter Hylton in The Scale of Perfection.  Note the emphasis laid upon it by Wordsworth, who indicates self-knowledge as the mark of those who have attained the “unitive” stage; see p. 66 above.

[66] Dr. Inge gives an excellent detailed account of it in Studies of English Mystics, 1906, pp. 80-123.

[67] See Piers Plowman, by J. J. Jusserand, 1894

[68] B., Passus v., 614-616.

[69] Poems, ed.  Waller, 1904, p. 283.

[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 [Greek:  g]2 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)