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19th Century New England Views Of Sin

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... faith in the spirit world throughout his life, claiming that he often spoke with the apparitions, angels, devils and spirits which are articulated in his works. Later, he came into contact with the world of late eighteenth century London psychics, visionaries, and various other Christian and progressive free-thinking writers and intellectuals such as Emanuel Swedenborg.
At the age of twelve, Blake began writing the poetry that would become his first printed work, Poetical Sketches, ... ... s revolt against the established values of his time. "Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion." Radically he sided with the Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost and attacked the conventional religious views in a series of aphorisms.
While some of Blake's critics viewed him as a lunatic based on his works n the 1790s. Blake was merely reacting to the lack of liberty and justice of the events ...

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