Few poems better capture for me that vision of God’s heaven on earth than Blake’s “The Divine Image.”
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Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
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All Must Love the Human Form
In “The Divine Image,” Blake gives us a poem for our time, a call to pray for mercy, pity, peace, and love and to recognize the human form in diversity. In “The Human Abstract” he adds that prayer is not enough. It must be accompanied by human justice.
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God Dwells in Mercy, Pity, Peace, Love
Pope Francis ! might well embrace the vision of love found in Blake’s “Divine Image.”
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