Talk:Urizen

A fact from Urizen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 November 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in William Blake's Four Zoas myth, the Christian God is divided into four parts, Sense, Reason, Imagination, and Love, which have the counterparts Sexual Urges, Pleasure, Inspiration, and Nature?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/November.

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Un-reliable source[edit]

Recently I removed a statement tieing Blake's imagry to Freemasonry as being unreferenced. It was returned with a reference and additional material. I am glad to see the improvement, thanks.

However, I have a problem using

William Blake's The Book of Urizen, MA thesis posted online by Daniel Tarr.

as a reference for the line: Speculative Freemasonry is another possible source of Blake's imagery for Urizen; Blake was attracted to the Masonic and Druidic speculations of William Stukeley. The citation points to a personal website hosting someone's Masters Thesis. This is unfortunately, an unreliable source according to WP:RS. Rather than blank the entire statement, however, I will blank the citation and add a citation request tag. Blueboar 20:19, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]