Being Afraid of Death

[Rasputin]

[Dokhtar Bandari]

I think Blake explains this in Marriage of Hell and Heaven perfectly. Or at least I found it illuminating. The plates are lengthy so I will post here only the section which I think has a good explanation.


THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL
(Plate 4 )

All Bibles or sacred codes, have been the causes of the following Errors.
1. That Man has two real existing principles Viz: a Body & a Soul.
2. That Energy, call'd Evil, is alone from the Body, & that Reason, call'd Good, is alone from the Soul.
3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.

But the following Contraries to these are True.
1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
2. Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
3. Energy is Eternal Delight.