William Blake’s Clairvoyance. Consciousness is not a private possession but the inside of the whole world

18 June 2025. From the archive of Mark's older writing; new posts are on Substack.

Jerusalem is urged by the Daughters of Inspiration to resist the veiling of Vala – to choose the living forms of Westminster Abbey over the formal ratios of St Paul’s Cathedral. Image: William Blake

How can we understand Blake’s second sight? Why might it matter to us today? What is the philosophical background to the uncoupling that Blake so resisted?

These questions and more considered in a new essay at my Substack, A Golden String.