135. It Is interesting to compare the words of
other mystics upon this point; as for instance Richard of St Victor in
_Benjamin Minor_, cap. 75, or Walter Hylton in _The Scale of
Perfection_. Note the emphasis laid upon it by Wordsworth, who indicates
self-knowledge as the mark of those who have attained the "unitive"
stage; see p. 66 above.
[66] Dr. Inge gives an excellent detailed account of it in _Studies of
English Mystics_, 1906, pp. 80-123.
[67] See _Piers Plowman_, by J. J. Jusserand, 1894
[68] B., Passus v., 614-616.
[69] _Poems_, ed. Waller, 1904, p. 283.
[70] _Poems_, ed. Grosart, 1874, p. 134.
[71] See _Additional Table Talk of S. T. O._, ed. T. Ashe, 1884, p. 322.
[72] _Poems_, ed. Sampson, p. 305.
[73] See _Mysticism_, by E. Underhill, pp. 282-286, and specially the
passage from the _Fioreth_ of St Francis of Assisi, chap, xlviii.,
quoted on p. 285.
[74] Notes to Lavater.
[75] From version [Greek: g]2 in _Poetical Works_, ed. John Sampson, 1905,
p. 253.
[76] _Poems_, ed. Sampson, p. 173.
[77] _Poems_, ed Sampson, pp. 305-6, 309-10. Blake is here praying that
we may be preserved from the condition of mind which sees no farther
than the concrete facts before it; a condition he unfairly associated
with the scientific mind in the abstract, and more especially with
Newton.
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