The Secret City: London's Hidden History of Magic, Mystery, and the Occult.

  Buy Now (Click Link) In the same city where the cynical aristocrats of the Hellfire Club performed their blasphemous rites, a man of humble birth was experiencing a different and far more profound reality. William Blake, a poet, painter, and engraver, was a visionary in the truest sense of the word. For him, the spiritual world was not a matter of belief or speculation; it was a directly perceived reality. He saw angels in the trees of Peckham Rye, the ghost of a flea, and the ancient, mythological Albion on the hills of London. Blake’s London was not the mundane, material city of the Enlightenment; it was a living, breathing, and often terrifying spiritual entity. A Prophet in the Modern Babylon Blake was born and lived almost his entire life in London, and the city is the central character in his complex, personal mythology. He saw it not as a centre of progress and enlightenment, but as a new Babylon, a place of spiritual oppression, of “dark Satanic Mills,” where the human im...