THE CUP
171
in one of
his
unpublished
letters wrote
,
“
The riddle
of
the sphinx has two answers which are true only
in
a
third
.
“
The first
is
God
,
the second
is
man
,
and the
third Man
-
God
.'
”
This
is
but
the
overman
of
the
Egoistical
philosophy
of
Nietzsche
.
Hermes struck
a
higher
chord when
he
said
:
“
To
create
God
,
is
to
accomplish our own creation
,
to
make ourselves inde
pendent
,
impassible
,
and
immortal
.”
Blake
demon
strated the
at
-
oneness
of
Good and Evil very clearly
in
"
The Marriage
of
Heaven and Hell
."
"
I
tell you
no
virtue can
exist without
breaking
these
ten
com
mandments
,
”
he
says
,
referring
to
the
Decalogue
.
Further
back
in
his
“
Proverbs
of
Hell
,”
he
writes
:
You never know what
is
enough unless
you know what
is
more than enough
.
The pride
of
the peacock
is
the glory
of
God
.
The lust
of
the goat
is
the bounty
of
God
.
The wrath
of
the lion
is
the wisdom of God
.
The nakedness of woman
is
the work of God
.
For everything that lives
is
Holy
.
9
In
Samuel Butler's
“
Erewhon
we find much the
same idea
in
the following
couplet
.
He who
sins aught sins more
than
he
ought
,
But
he
who sins naught
,
has
much
to
be
taught
.
Blake further writes
in
“
The Marriage
of
Heaven
and Hell
”
:
A
man carried
a
monkey about for
a
show
,
and
because
he
was
a
little wiser
than
the
monkey
,
grew
vain
,
and
conceived himself as much
wiser than
seven
men
.
It
is
so
with
Swedenborg
:
he
shows
the
folly
of
churches
and
exposes
hypocrites
,
till
he
imagines that
all
are religious
and himself the single one
on
earth that ever broke
a
net
.
Now hear
a
plain fact
:
Swedenborg
has not written one
new truth
.