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

Love

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

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.

love
Agnieszka

Nia
*stilllaughingtheholetime*