ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture Notes - Axis Mundi
25 Feb 2013
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Axis mundi the great chain of being. William blake observed that there was a change in foot culturally. The first writer that wrote about these changes: the changes of thinking of power and human initiative that operates against them, the upper world that belongs to the divine order begins to be portrayed more as oppressive. He understands that the axis mundi was flipping upside down. We begin to discover in the literature (unconsciously) this shift. Powers can ascend from below: we see powers ascending below are seen to be favoured from the powers descending from above, this is a revolutionary initiative, this begins to be the prized position on the axis. There is still the possibility of an authority above (but it is seen to be negative now: higher authorities are tended to think of in scepticism, we now look for our sense of orientation in lower worlds.
