The Tree of Mystery is a piece of digital artwork by Eric Edelman which was uploaded on November 14th, 2011.
The Tree of Mystery
In the prophetic prose poem The Book of Ahania, William Blake describes how a tree grew from the tears of Urizen, one of his Eternal archetypal... more
by Eric Edelman
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The Tree of Mystery
Artist
Eric Edelman
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Digital Art - Digital Collage
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In the prophetic prose poem The Book of Ahania, William Blake describes how a tree grew from the tears of Urizen, one of his Eternal archetypal beings, brooding in isolation from his fellows.The tree has boughs that grow down to the ground and take root, producing other trees and creating a maze-like forest. Blake calls this plant the "Tree of Mystery," and seems to identify it, in various poems, with Christianity as the successor to Druidism; with tyranny; or with the labyrinthine structure of the moral law.
The Tree of Mystery shown here comes from no terrestrial forest. By the same leap of association and logic that Blake may have made, a branched structure stands for curiosity about the unknown, and bears the emblems and objects that have fascinated us all since we first came to consciousness: the nature of time and space; illusion; and life in its interaction with energy. Some of these things we now know much about, thanks to science; others may remain unknown forever. And we can consider the Tree of Mystery a boundary marker at the border between questions beginning with �How,� and those starting with �Why.�
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