"2. That energy, called evil, is alone from the body, and that Heaven, called Good, is alone from the soul. "3. That God will torment man in Eternity for following his energies. But the following contraries are true: "1. Man has no Body distinct from Soul, for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age. "2. Energy is the only life, and is from the body, and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. "3. Energy is eternal delight." These postulates form links in a chain of thought, another progression of which is developed in "Jerusalem." Blake writes: "There is a limit of opaqueness and a limit of contraction in every individual man, and the limit of opaqueness is called Satan, and the limit of contraction is called Adam. But there is no limit of expansion, there is no limit of translucence in the bosom of man for ever from eternity to eternity." Certainly there was no limit in his own bosom, and in vision he expanded away from his own "ego" and merged in the universal life, the all-pervading Spirit. Opaqueness and contraction were the only forms of evil he recognized, and these are negative rather than active qualities. Indeed, Blake often seems to deny the existence of sin at all. Again referring to the invaluable record that Crabb Robinson has left of Blake--I quote always from Messrs. Ellis and Yeats' complete reprint of the part of the diary referring to him--"He allowed, indeed, that there are errors, mistakes, etc., and if these be evil, then there is evil. But these are only negations. He denied that the natural world is anything. It is all nothing, and Satan's empire is the empire of nothing." In another place he writes: "Negations are not contraries. Contraries exist. But negations exist not; nor shall they ever be organized for ever and ever." Contraries, 'the marriage of Heaven and Hell,' seemed necessary and right to him, and the urge and recoil natural correlatives. The great strife with Blake was always that between reason and imagination, experience and spiritual discernment. The greater part of humanity seemed to him to see _with_ the natural eye natural phenomena only. This was accordingly opaque to them, and did not let through the light of the Universal Spirit or Imagination, seen with which alone it was beautiful, as being then the symbol of something immeasureably greater than itself. Locke and Newton, the men of "single vision" as he called them, were the types of this part of humanity. He would fain have had men look _through_ the eye at the infinite imagination which is the cause of phenomena. [Illustration: DEATH'S DOOR: FROM BLAIR'S "GRAVE" Engraved by L. Schiavonetti after Blake's drawing. Published 1808]