All Religions Are One

In Jerusalem, Blake famously asserted that 'I will not reason and compare: my business is to create'. This quote highlights the fact that Blake himself was participating in an inventive process. Northrop Frye commented that 'man in his creative acts and perceptions is God, and God is man? ' man's creativity is, for Blake, the manifestation of the divine. The Songs of Innocence and Experience deal with life and the move, in particular, from youth to age. Creation is an extremely important aspect of life [being its beginning], whether the subject is creating or being created. As religion plays an enormous part in all of Blake's poetry, we can expect creation to have some biblical resonance as well.

Religions are not reality. Religions are false reality and false hope. There will never be any scientific evidence of the larger claimed supernatural components of many religions. Furthermore, Religions prevent people from living to their full potential, and the concept of religion directly and indirectly kills hundreds of thousands of people each year and will continue to kill as long as man abides to his faith out of fear.

Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all monotheistic religions. However, Islam originated as traveling, polytheistic, Arabs that later converted to worshiping one God, Allah. All three religions originated in the Middle East and all believed Abraham to be the first prophet. They all regard the Hebrew Bible but each have their own recorded versions of prayers, rituals, holy days and commandments. The Christians added the New Testament based on the life and messages from Jesus, the son of God. The 5 books of Moses, called Torah, outlined Jewish law. Jews did not believe that Jesus was a prophet; he was believed to be a false prophet. Islamists view the Qur’an as sacred text and words from God. Muhammad is said to have shared messages with

The Bible states, “For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible” (Colossians 1:16). William Blake wrote poems about this very subject. In his twin poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”, Blake uses different literary techniques such as sound, imagery and symbolism to echo the common theme of creation along with how it is viewed differently.

The third world monotheistic religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, do share this imperative about loving God/Allah with all the mind, heart, soul, and strength, and love one’s neighbor as oneself, which do indeed run contrary to the adversarial processes of managing conflict in the American legal system. It is evident in a litigation situation in a courtroom or in a dispute resolution forum, may it be negotiation, mediation, or arbitration, the two parties locked in argument, debate, and discussion are not applying this principle of unconditional love required by these religious belief systems. In fact, they are posturing, strategizing, and figuring out what advantages they can seize, and what opportunities arise, to win over their opponents and adversaries in these disputes whatever the venue may be or what dispute resolution process it may be.

What do you know about the three most known religions in the world? Well you have Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, the three most known religions in history. Judaism happens to not be as large as Christianity and Islam, yet its impact on the world has been as great. They each have some similarities and some differences.

Blake makes many references to the Bible in his poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”. He uses biblical symbols to express the nature of God and the two different states of his creation Blake’s starts “the Lamb” with questioning the creation of the lamb. In the first two lines of the first stanza, the speaker, a child, asks the lamb if he knows who made him, what its origin is, and how it came

One of my favorite experiences of fighting cancer was that 7 main world religions came together for a common cause; they were praying for me and my family. If I could change something in the world, I would unite people of different political and religious backgrounds for a common cause - the betterment of mankind. The human condition is so messy, if we each accepted one another and learned to work together the world would be a better place.

In his work, Songs of Innocence and Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, William Blake uses the aforementioned contrasting states of being to illustrate his unique view of the world around him. Through this work, Blake lays bare his soulful views of religion and ethics, daring the reader to continue on in their narcissistic attitudes and self-serving politics. While Blake's work had countless themes, some of the most prevalent were religious reform, social change, and morality. Philosophically, one would think that William Blake was a Deist; however Blake rejected the Deist view of life. He was a devout Christian, yet he also wanted nothing to do with the church or their teachings. These views give Blake a

In contradiction, William Blake’s poem, The Tyger, shows the use of archetypes through the tyger. The tyger, himself, is a symbol for anger, power, and strength. Unlike, The Lamb, this poem uses a more complex writing style. This poem differs from, The Lamb, in writing styles, for example, Blake doesn’t use repetition in this poem. This poem has a more mature and complex meaning, it is more serious and dark. In this poem, Blake questions God’s motives when he says, “Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” (Page 749 Line

It is a widely accepted fact that religion is not limited to Christianity and Islam. Instead, it also incorporates issues such as the fanaticism of expertise, worldly humanism, the consumer culture as well as the consecration to Thursday Night Rugby among other illustrations. Analysis of the historical definition of religion, it has been found that the five core features of religion are also met by politics. For this reason, it is hard to distinguish religion from a policy. As pointed out by the arguments provided regarding religion as a source of conflict, absolutism leads to a scenario where religion is concerned with the ultimate objective (Esposito).

The goal of this paper is to take a look at several different religions in an attempt to gain an understanding each religion in regard to their creation stories. The paper will consider the creation stories of 7 specific that range from western religion to more native religion. Specifically, the paper will discuss the creation story provided by Christianity, Islam, Native Americans, Africans, Hebrew, Chinese and Indian. It will provide insight on religion and what is believed about creation. It will also take into account the differences and similarities of the different religions. Ideally, it is believed that almost all religions are interrelated. They are either variations or parallel to one another. Particularly, in terms of stories, rules and overall beliefs.

The culmination of fully honoring the poetic genius manifests itself in Blake’s most notable work, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Great Albion, in the divine human being Albion. However, Blake presents Albion as being separated from his soul/poetic genius, Jerusalem. Therefore, Albion has lost the ability to become the true man, referenced in All Religions Are One, through his separation from Jerusalem. The separation between the two comes from Albion allowing his priests to use religion for their own benefit. In doing so, Albion became separated from his soul, Jerusalem, effectively trapping Albion from accessing his fully divine self. Moreover, Blake uses a narrative perspective to dictate Jesus’s, his own soul, words to plead with Albion to return to Jerusalem. Blake uses this perspective to align his own willingness to access his soul or his inner piece of God to plead with Albion to return to his. Blake’s ability to access his poetic genius allows him to see “A black water accumulate[ing]” representing the incoming consequences for now divided Albion; Blake ends up pleading with Albion to “return Albion! return!” (4:10) to Jerusalem. Moreover, Albion’s response to Blake’s plea is very Urizen-esque with his desire to “build my laws of Moral Virtue” [4:31] displaying Albion’s descent into limitation. Therefore, Albion, similarly to Urizen, represents a casualty of what disregarding the poetic genius can do to the embodiment of a divine being.

A term or more even a specific aspect in life, which is believed to be existent during the start of the world and hopefully will never be extinct is, Religion. How, why and where exactly religion formed, is a question that is universal, meaning many different religions have a variety of stories for these answers. The true definition of religion cannot be stated in one sentence. It is more of a question based an individual’s belief toward his/her religion. However, the basic ideology of religion is the belief in sacred objects such as Gods and supernatural beings. These beliefs are not just simply a belief. It is a belief that gives faithful worshippers answers to a certain extent of the true meaning of the sentient beings existence. There are a variety of different religions that exist in today’s world, hence the reason why Religion is not a single term. However, the following paper will only focus on Buddhist religion. Buddhism is said to have existed for more than 2,500 years, which surrounds a variety of beliefs, traditions and practices. All of which gives sentiment beings the true meaning and purpose of life. Particularly about death, rebirth and suffering (Strong 2008). Buddhism is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who is also known as the Buddha. Siddhartha Gautama is considered the Buddha because he has attainted complete unsurpassed enlightenment under the Bodhi tree at the age of 35 through extreme meditation (Strong, 2008). The major schools, which

William Blake focused on biblical images in the majority of his poetry and prose. Much of his well-known work comes from the two compilations Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The poems in these compilations reflect Blake's metamorphosis in thought as he grew from innocent to experienced. An example of this metamorphosis is the two poems The Divine Image and A Divine Image. The former preceded the latter by one year.