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In my paper, the version of Urizen’s creation and existence particularly refers to/concerns the contrast/conflict between energy and reason. In Blake’s mythological system, Urizen is a false God which represents the distortion of truth and concerns the pragmatic, unspiritual apprehension, and appreciation of the mundane world as a creation of falsity which must be accepted by humans in order to survive, to secure life and multiply. Urizen creates and lives in an alienated and enslaving realm, a distorted mental st...