jazz from hell
Ancient Mariner
Just came across this commentary about numerological concepts in William Blake; would perfectly fit the podcast, right?
There are, in fact, "Twenty-seven Heavens and a l l their Hells" stretching between the earth and the firmament. Twenty-seven is the cube of three and three is the number of the natural man. Blake's universe is four- fold and so four is his perfect number. Three falls short of this, just as 666, the number of the Beast in the Revelation, falls short of the perfect number seven. Seven is the number most frequently mentioned
in Revelation (seven spirits, seven angels with seven bowls, seven churches, seven lampstands, seven eyes of God). Seven multiplied by four equals twenty-eight, so the "twenty-eighth heaven" is the perfect heaven whereas the twenty-seven heavens imply something ominously lacking, reaching to the sky but not to eternity. In fact, they are a l l opaque.
