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The Birth of the Child (Christ Within)
The spiritual 'birth of the child' (Christ within) is a profound mystical experience preceded by a 'form of madness' or intense visionary state. This state…
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It is preceded by, as Blake said, a form of madness, for he said: “All visionary men are accounted – in certain states they are accounted mad men.” And then he asks you to read that verse. Blake was not the kind of person who would spell everything out. I know, in my own case – it goes back quite a few years before 1959 – I would say, four or five years, that if I shared with others what I was feeling within me at the time, it would be a form of madness. I was talking to an audience of twenty-six hundred on Sunday mornings and turning away over fifteen hundred at the Fox-Wilshire. I took that platform, and here I could feel within me, just as a woman would feel, the struggle of a child within her, but I felt it in my head – this pulsing, pulsing, vibrant state. Sit down for a moment, and the whole thing is just like a mad, mad state, and I was talking to intelligent people – I think they were – who came to hear me, and I was addressing twenty-six hundred and was turning away fifteen hundred, and I took another theater that sat another seven hundred and fifty, and that overflowed; and, yet, here I am like a woman – a pregnant woman – almost at the end of her time. That is what Blake is talking about.
The spiritual 'birth of the child' (Christ within) is a profound mystical experience preceded by a 'form of madness' or intense visionary state. This state is characterized by an inner struggle and pulsing sensation, akin to a pregnant woman nearing delivery, which can seem irrational or mad to others but is a glorious precursor to the divine birth.