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he also writes in The Laocoön, ‘Christianity is Art’: ‘A Poet a Painter a Musician an Architect: the Man/Or Woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.’ This view unites the truly creative with Christ, for ‘Jesus
the Being of God, is like a Wheel, wherein many wheeles are made one in another, upward, downward, crosse-ways, and yet continually turn all of them together . . .. When a man beholdeth the wheel, he highly marvaileth at it, and cannot at once in its turning learn to conceive and apprehend it: but the more he beholdeth the wheel, the more he learneth its Form or frame; and the more he learneth, the greater Longing he hath to the Wheel; for he continually seeth somewhat, that is more and more wonderfull, so that a man can neither behold it or learn it Enough.31
Reality is inexhaustible, and, when imaginatively engaged with, continually reveals new possibilities. In accord with this, Boehme’s writings embrace and nurture a progressive, ever-deepening and creative understanding. Blake’s work similarly represents a new development and creation of spiritual understanding. Both stress the need for each individual to encounter and interpret anew the truths that, in Blake’s words, ‘reside in the human breast’.32 Boehme too speaks of this: ‘One always understands otherwise than another, according