The Lamb by William Blake

 Here's the cool thing about The Lamb by William Blake, published in 1789. In the poem he's talking to a lamb and asking the lamb if it knows who made it.

And you're thinking, 'That's so cool that he could talk to lambs I didn't know people used to be able to do that.' And yes, he could. William Blake could talk to lambs and they could understand him. 

What else does William Blake tell the lamb? He spends most of the poem calling the lamb a good sweet boy. Saying, 'aw you're so nice. you're a nice lil guy.'

And then there's a big surprise where he tells the lamb at the end who made it and TA-DA! It's God. And God is a lil' lamb too.

I don't know all the background there is to know on the connection between Christ and lambs but I know it's a thing. And I think it's a cool and also absolutely wild idea to be like God the all-powerful and almighty is actually meek and mild. Seeing a little lamb frolicking in a field and being like, "yep. there's God. That's him right there."

Why is that cool and wild?

Alan Watts has a talk about how churches and religious doctrine are set up in a way to make God seem like a king. And the goal of that is to legitimize a monarch. The point of talking about God is to instill the idea that at any level, a man should be in charge. Among other things. 

Which is lame and dumb obviously. 

God/The Universe is not an administrative thing. It's not a separate other that exists to be in charge of stuff. The whole point of the Universe/God is to be generative. It's to be creative and playful. 

A lamb is in a constant state of becoming and exploring. It's not in charge of anything. That's living. That's being godly. 

I think that's what William Blake is saying. And I think that's really cool.