Image of the Day : Sconfitta by William Blake

Sconfitta by William Blake

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  1. 1 THELMA

    Sconfitta, the defeat….?? So much despair..William Blake the dreamer.. LOVE, THELMA

  2. 2 maria

    Sometimes in the defeat lies the Victory…

  3. 3 Paul from Austria

    There is always despair in defeat, but to have been defeated means that one has at least fought, and that is what is important…

    Love, Paul

  4. 4 TylerrRietze

    Beautiful defeat.

  5. 5 MARIA

    We just lose when we do not fight.

    Defeat is a response to a step in the way, and that can

    lead to real victory…

    Never give up…

  6. 6 Lynne

    A beautiful prayer for healing cancer. Thank you.

  7. 7 Nia Wind

    nibiru is coming… or?

    Nia
    *stilllaughingtheholetime*

  8. 8 Agnieszka

    How…naked we are in the eyes of God. Everything, our virtues, our sins, our soul, our heart out in the open. Nothing can hide. At the end when all is revealed, we kneel before Him/Her…naked.
    And…those whose soul is dark, will stay alone, forever banned from the light of God, forever alone. Forbidden to enter. Defeated.

    love
    Agnieszka

  9. 9 wanbliska

    “The song of Los”, illuminated books painted by Blake and his wife, for the Continental Prophecies.

    In William Blake’s mythology, Urizen is one of the first fourth sons of Albion, the primordial man, that’s called to be divided fourfold; by himself. That could also refers to the Ezechiel four Gospels, and pagan beliefs, regards to the creative chariot of God.
    As to its meaning in greek, Urizen is one of the four Zoas, or four living ones, born from Albion. His sons are: Tharmas embodiement of instinct and strength. Urizen: “The primeaval priest”, wisdom, but also cruelty. Luvah/Orc for creative passion, love, emotion, rebellion. Urthona/Los, the eternal prophet, the smith, for inspiration and imagination.

    “And the Four Points are thus beheld in Great Eternity West, the Circumference: South, the Zenith: North,
    The Nadir: East, the Center, unapproachable for ever.
    These are the four Faces towards the Four Worlds of Humanity
    In every Man.
    Ezekiel saw them by Chebars flood.
    And the Eyes are the South, and the nostrils are the East.
    And the Tongue is the West, and the Ear is the North.
    Jerusalem Plate 12 William Blake

    Here, Urizen kneels before a creation. Maybe one of the son of His own celestial feminine emanation Ahania: fire or Fuzon.
    We could suppose here, he’s in prayer. But, only Los is known to be the Zoas who keeps the vision of Albion’s; staying in communication with the Divine, through the spirit.
    So Urizen is maybe here using tools we couldn’t see, regards to our position, face to Los; heart’s beats.
    He’s the representative body of reason, law, architecture. Maybe God of the Old testament. The wise man creator from “Chaos”.
    Usually depicting Him as a bearded old man, Will tales us he’s got symbolically his head hidden in Albion, by bowing it down. Or in Urthona? Since, Albion, what was before the light and dark principles had to be created.

    “We fell. I seiz’d thee, dark Urthona. In my left hand falling. I seiz’d thee, beauteous Luvah, thou are faded like a flower…. Then thou didst keep with Strong Urthona the living gates of heaven but now thou art bow’d down with him, even to the gates of hell. ” William Blake.

    Though he’s dressed in white, his reason seems to be dependent. The drawing is yet balanced, and feminine by many symbols. The green under His feet, the clothes, picted as petals, the rose, equity in red and white, as if a compassion was born from his feminine part, towards the creation of The Sun.

    If he had been Antichrist, Creeping Jesus,
    He’d have done anything to please us:
    Gone sneaking into the Synagogues
    And not used the Elders & Priests like Dogs,
    But humble as a Lamb or an Ass,
    Obey himself to Caiaphas.
    God wants not man to humble himself
    The Everlasting Gospel, Blake

    Also, Urizen could emprison man’s reason for conventionalism, and fear of opening ourselves to Luvah spirit of love, who Urizen is supposed to enclose. Urizen brakes the saviour, making him suffer.
    Knowing as enslaving himself in dogmas, Urizen could cut Himself from the Divine. In His fall, Los and His feminine emanation musical Enitharmon created a space for Freedom. So here, it seems we’re face to a sun (Los/Sol), symbolizes “revolution”, that blinds the other sons of Albion.

    Reading from Blake last night and then, I was conduced to G. of Mounmouth. And that’s true William Blake should know a peculiar practice of drawing. Maybe using linen, whose chevrons are led to reveal prophecies. Why the sunlight is an entire world. Purely magical by the way, it could represent lands in particularly. Maybe England and Africa. But I’m not sure at all.
    Thanks for the journey: I didn’t know so much about him, and discover so how William Blake could have been my man.

    Whenever we need
    to make a very important decision,
    it is best to trust to impulse, to passion,
    because reason usually tries to
    remove us from our dream,
    saying that the time is not yet right.
    Reason is afraid of defeat,
    but intuition enjoys life and its challenges

    ~ Acceptance speech delivered to the Brazilian academy of letters ~ Paulo Coelho.

  10. 10 wanbliska

    “Now I may say to you, what perhaps I should not dare to say to anyone else: That I can alone carry on my visionary studies in London unannoy’d, & that I may converse with my friends in Eternity, See Visions, Dream Dreams & prophecy & speak Parables unobserv’d & at liberty from the Doubts of other Mortals; perhaps Doubts proceeding from Kindness, but Doubts are always pernicious, Especially when we Doubt our Friends.”

    William Blake in a letter to Thomas Butts, April 25 1803.

  11. 11 THELMA

    @ wanbliska. Thank you, so much for what you have communicated to us above. I was ignorant, about everything. I may still have.. the time to learn. I have been back to the Virtual exhibition, and you look as beautiful as wise. LOVE, THELMA

  12. 12 wanbliska

    Thank you dear Thelma

    That’s just my searches, maybe not the truth. But anyway, an idea. ;)

    Love

  13. 13 Alexandra

    It is well know that W.Blake had a special opinion on God.He created his own mythology.His God was mischievious,playing to hurt people,not mercifull like we think.His life was full of sufference,maybe this painting reflects his own defeat ,he alone in front of an unfriendly universe.Being almost naked,he seems to be more vulnerable.Colours are dramatic.Still,I think he was great tallent.

  14. 14 mariangela

    Nossa !!!! Que maravilha ! …força mútua.
    beijos,
    Mari Raphael.

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