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What may have inspired parts of William Blake's Prophetic Books?

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The Prophetic Books are founded in the real world, as are Blake's passions and anger, but they appear abstruse because they are ordered by a mythology devised by the poet, which draw from Swedenborg , Jacob Boehme , and other mystical sources.

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