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Blake on Jerusalem, dictated to him twelve, twenty or thirty lines at a time: 'I may praise it, since I dare not pretend to be any other than the Secretary; the Authors are in Eternity' (letter to Butts, 1803). Work that should have taken a lifetime came without labour, received rather than made.

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Letter to Butts, 1803 | I may praise it, because I am only the secretary — its authors are in eternity

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I know Blake hasn’t died, because I meet him. He died seemingly to the world, leaving behind him only the works he gave us in the printed form. I talked with him.
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he said he did not create it, it was dictated, sometimes twenty lines at a time, and he said the spirit of prophecy, which is called Christ Jesus in the Bible, dictated it, morning after morning
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“I may praise it, because I am only the secretary — its authors are in eternity.”
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