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Blake's letter to Butts (1802): 'Now I a fourfold vision see, And a fourfold vision is given to me; 'Tis fourfold in my supreme delight And threefold in soft Beulah's night And twofold Always. May God us keep From Single vision & Newton's sleep!' Neville's reading: single vision is ordinary sight, the thing and nothing more; twofold sees everything as a symbol ('with my inward eye 'tis an old man grey'); threefold blends images so that they bear offspring; fourfold steps into the image and finds it as solid and real as this world.

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Letter to Butts, 1802 | now I a fourfold vision see, and a fourfold vision is given to me; ’tis fourfold in my supreme delight, and threefold in soft Beulah’s night, and twofold always. May God us keep from single vision and Newton’s sleep
Letter to Butts, 1802 | with my inward eye, it’s an old man gray

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So a vision is in a dream awake; what Blake called “fourfold vision.” So this is the four-fold vision of Blake. But we are now completely awake in it and it has continuity, so we don’t even realize it is still a dream.
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There was no gravity - gravity was in me. And I thought (as I was taught in my little school) that Sir Isaac Newton discovered it; and I almost thought he made it, because the whole thing was Sir Isaac Newton.
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A primrose by a river’s brim, A yellow primrose was to him And it was nothing more…
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Fourfold vision, rather — you’ve had it or not, I do not know.
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Single vision, to him, was simply the ordinary physical sight, where this is what appears to be and nothing more. Double vision is when everything is but a symbol.
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To my outward eye it is simply heaven, or a person along the way; or, with my inward eye, it’s an old man gray.
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now I a fourfold vision see, and a fourfold vision is given to me
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Fourfold vision is what you and I are called upon to practice, to bring about changes of state for those we love.
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that’s single vision, and he prayed to be saved from single vision, because everything has a meaning in God’s word
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If I bring you into my mind’s eye and represent you to myself as I would like to see you, and persuade myself of the reality of this imaginal act of mine — that’s threefold vision.
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