Very good+ condition. Inside in new condition. Dust jacket has some slight shelf wear. Overall a very nice copy. Fast shipping with tracking Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Approaching myth as the structuring principle of intentionality, "Wonders Divine": The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth analyzes the evolution of Wiliam Blake's my in the illuminated books. With numerous reproductions of the visual and references to the verbal art, Spector traces the profound shift that occured in Blake's subjective consciousness from the earliest prose tracts through the final prophecy, Jerusalem. The opening chapters establish the critical foundation. In the first, the cultural contexts, including the exoteric tradition, the Christian Kabbalah and English esoterica, are delineated; and in the second, the mythic bases, including Milton's recension of Calvinism in Paradise Lost, Jewish speculations about Ezekiel's Chariot and Creation, and Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont's Adumbratio Kabbalae Christianae, are surveyed. Then, the last four chapters explore how the transformation of Blake's myth from what was originally a Miltonic orientation to a fully conceived Christianized version of the Kabbalistic myth, revels his own artistic development from the pre-mythic stage, before he was consciously aware of the fact that myth exerts control over thought, to the reflexive exploration of the conceptual basis of myth, so that, ultimately, he might develop a transformative myth through which the mind might be liberated. Subject code: