A Ruby Bright as Fire: William Blake and the Esoteric Tradition by P.T. Mistlberger Anathema Publishing, 2026) "URIZEN" Collector's Edition

Contents 

Introduction

Part I: The Man and his System

1. Biographical Sketch
2. Outline of Blake’s Writings and Symbolic System: Part I
3. Outline of Blake’s Writings and Symbolic System: Part II

Part II: Commentaries

4. Blake, Mysticism, and the Esoteric Tradition, Part I
5. Blake, Mysticism, and the Esoteric Tradition, Part II
6. Blake’s Unholy Testament: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
7. Blakean Inner Work and Imagination
8. The Tyger, the Red Dragon, and the Metamorphosis of Satan
9. Blake and the Occult
10. Visions, Angels, and the Preternatural
11. Madness, Shamanism, and Daimonic Reality 
12. Blake’s City of Light and Fire

Appendix I: Chronology of Blake’s Life
Appendix II: The Crimson King: Blake, Popular Culture, and the Dark Side
Appendix III: Blake’s Friends, Associates, and Disciples
Appendix IV: The Influence of Blake and Romanticism on Western Esotericism 
Appendix V: In Praise of Ancestors—and an Appreciation of Catherine Blake

Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgments

Description

Most of the scholarly studies, with the exception of a few, steer clear of Blake’s more mystic and occult sides. The present work, written by a lifelong student of both Blake and the great esoteric wisdom traditions, seeks to explore Blake’s lesser-known role as a teacher of perennial wisdom, and one who accomplished such teachings via a sublime artistry.

Examined in the book are aspects of Blake’s work such as his famed The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and its remarkable foreshadowing of ideas from 20th century psychoanalysis, Blake’s affinity with great historical mystics such as Jacob Boehme and Paracelsus, his complicated association with Swedenborgianism, his shamanic visions so severely misunderstood by his contemporaries, concealed teachings in his famous poem The Tyger, his role in the Romantic metamorphosis of Satan, his powerful though largely unrecognized system of inner work, his remarkable resonance, especially via his renowned Proverbs of Hell, with the notorious 20th century occultist Aleister Crowley, as well as his marked influence on 20th century poets, visionaries, novelists, and musicians.