Doors of Perception

THERE is NO NATURAL RELIGION

The Author & Printer W. Blake

[a]

The Argument Man has no notion of moral fitness
but from Education.
Naturally he is only a natural organ subject to Sense.

I Man cannot naturally Percieve, but through his natural or bodily organs
II Man by his reasoning power can only compare & judge of
what he has already perciev'd.
III From a perception of only 3 senses or 3 elements none
could deduce a fourth or fifth
IV None could have other than natural or organic thoughts if
he had none but organic perceptions
V Mans desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire
what he has not perciev'd
VI The desires & perceptions of man untaught
by any thing but organs of sense,
must be limited to objects of sense.

[b]

I Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception.
He percieves more than sense (tho' ever so acute) can discover.
II Reason or the ratio of all we have already known is not
the same that it shall be when we know more.
[III lacking]
IV The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull
round even of a univer[s]e would soon become a mill with
complicated wheels.
V If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd,
More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than
All cannot satisfy Man.
VI If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing,
despair must be his eternal lot.
VII The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite
& himself Infinite

Conclusion, If it were not for the Poetic or Prophetic character
the Philosophic & Experimental would soon be at the ratio of
all things & stand still, unable to do other than repeat
the same dull round over again Application.
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.
He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only.

Therefore God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is