"True religion, which, as we have seen, meant for Blake
universal love and the accomplishment of all man's desires, is, according to
him, always in conflict with two great philosophical systems : on the one hand
all the orthodox religions and moral codes which restrain desire, and write the
" Thou shalt not " of the Decalogue ; and, on the other, the
religions founded on science and reason, which deny revelation and concentrate
all man's aspirations upon himself. Judaism is a type of the first, and Deism
of the second ; and Blake represents the one by Rahab, the religion of the Law,
of sin and punishment, and the other by Tirzah, the religion of nature and
materialism. Jerusalem, therefore, treats principally of the growth of
these two kinds of religion, after the fall of man, their final destruction,
and man's regeneration through Liberty."
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