This is primarily due to Milton’s portrayal of the devil as a psychological and morally ambiguous character. The cultural influence of Milton was vast in the eighteenth century, and continues to prevail in contemporary (popular) culture. Blake consistently suggests that God is not interested in either what is pure or impure: “Every thing is good in God’s eyes” “Thou wast so pure and bright/ That Heaven was impure in thy sight”: for Blake, the reason for the Urizenic left brain’s fall is not its impurity but it’s very obsession with purity – it’s belief that it is “purer” than God.
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