[51] See _Sartor_, Book iii. chap. iv. [52] The mystical desire for close contact with God is expressed in English as early as before 1170, in Godric's song to the Virgin. [53] See _Mysticism_, by E. Underhill, pp. 162-166. [54] _The Ancren Riwle_, ed. J. Morton, Camden Society, 1853, pp. 397-403. [55] _Fire of Love_, Bk. 1. cap xvi. p. 36. [56] _Ibid._, Bk. i. cap. xv. p. 33. [57] See _Mysticism_, by E. Underhill, pp. 228, 229. [58] _Fire of Love_, Bk. i. cap. xvi. p. 36. [59] _Ibid._, Bk. ii. cap. iii. and xii. [60] _Fire of Love_, Bk. i. cap. xv. [61] _Ibid._, Bk. ii. cap. vii. [62] _Enneads_, vi. §§ 8, 9. [63] See _The Authorship of the Prick of Conscience_, by H. E. Allen, Radcliffe College Monographs, No. 15, Ginn and Co., 1910. [64] _Revelations_, ed. Warrack, pp. 21, 178. All the quotations which follow are taken from this edition of the _Revelations_. [65] _Revelations_, p. 135. It Is interesting to compare the words of other mystics upon this point; as for instance Richard of St Victor in _Benjamin Minor_, cap. 75, or Walter Hylton in _The Scale of Perfection_. Note the emphasis laid upon it by Wordsworth, who indicates self-knowledge as the mark of those who have attained the "unitive" stage; see p. 66 above. [66] Dr. Inge gives an excellent detailed account of it in _Studies of English Mystics_, 1906, pp. 80-123. [67] See _Piers Plowman_, by J. J. Jusserand, 1894 [68] B., Passus v., 614-616. [69] _Poems_, ed. Waller, 1904, p. 283. [70] _Poems_, ed. Grosart, 1874, p. 134. [71] See _Additional Table Talk of S. T. O._, ed. T. Ashe, 1884, p. 322. [72] _Poems_, ed. Sampson, p. 305. [73] See _Mysticism_, by E. Underhill, pp. 282-286, and specially the passage from the _Fioreth_ of St Francis of Assisi, chap, xlviii., quoted on p. 285. [74] Notes to Lavater. [75] From version γ2 in _Poetical Works_, ed. John Sampson, 1905, p. 253. [76] _Poems_, ed. Sampson, p. 173. [77] _Poems_, ed Sampson, pp. 305-6, 309-10. Blake is here praying that we may be preserved from the condition of mind which sees no farther than the concrete facts before it; a condition he unfairly associated with the scientific mind in the abstract, and more especially with Newton. [78] This is the principle called occasionally by Blake, and always by Boehme, the "Mirror," or "Looking Glass." Blake's names for these four principles, as seen in the world, in contracted form, are Urizen, Luvah, Urthona, and Tharmas. [79] Possibly in some such way as Mozart, when composing, heard the whole of a symphony. "Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts _successively_, but I hear them as it were all at once" (Holmes's _Life and Correspondence of Mozart_ 1845, pp 317-18)