The Right Rev. John Bayton was a bishop in the Diocese of Melbourne for the Anglican Church in Australia. He is a master iconographer, artist, and the
founder of the Institute for Spiritual Studies, Melbourne, Australia.
The Right Rev. John Bayton was a bishop in the Diocese of Melbourne for the Anglican Church in Australia. He is a master iconographer, artist, and the founder of the Institute for Spiritual Studies, Melbourne, Australia.
William Blake, the great 18th century poet who never in all his life visited the Holy Land, left us a great legacy of poetry about Jerusalem. His Jerusalem was the place of his continual journey into self, into the deepest and most marvelous labyrinths of imagination. For Blake, Jesus was "God's Imagination."
Read full transcript..."I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by me." This was the great cry of Jesus. Reflecting on this, W. H. Auden, the English poet of our times wrote:
"He is the way, follow Him through the land of unlikeness. You will see rare beasts and have unique adventures. He is the Truth. Seek Him the Kingdom of Anxiety. You will come to a great city that has expected your return for years. He is the Life. Love in the world of flesh. And at your marriage all its occasions shall dance for joy."
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