If you’d like to support the channel (gold bars, gemstones, rare earth rocks accepted), check out the Patreon link: www.patreon.com/c/SolomonSmith/membership Welcome back to Solomon and Smith — keep it juicy, large boys. In this second part of our deep dive into William Blake, we’re joined by Jodie Marley for a rich, wide-ranging conversation on prophecy, vision, mysticism, and the strange, electric Blakeopantheon. Building on our earlier discussion with Mark Vernon, we explore Blake through the lens of innocence and experience, satire and sincerity, heaven and hell. What does it mean for Blake to “see” something? Did he believe his visions were literal? Or are they poetic frameworks for imagination and revelation? We dig into: Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell and its critique of Emanuel Swedenborg Biblical prophecy, inc ...