Illustration to Milton's Paradise Lost, William Blake, 1808. Watercolor
on paper, 50.5 x 40.2 cm. Gift by Subscription. Courtesy, Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston
One of twelve watercolor with pen drawings, here Blake has brought
out the theological centrality of Christ's sacrifice to redeem
man. His ecstatic gesture of renunciation contrasts with the material
and therefore despairing perceptions of Jehovah, who cannot understand
the nature of this sacrifice. Christ's gesture of affirmation
prefigures the crucifixion. Four angels offer crowns to the Light
and Logos of Creation Who, as the Incarnation of Mercy, Pity,
Love, and Peace, will adopt a human heart and show a human face
to reclaim the divinity of the human form, made in the image and
likeness of its Creator.
— Rays from the Rose Cross Magazine, January/February, 1996
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