Prophets

William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at that time that they would be misunderstood, and so be the cause of imposition?" To which Isaiah answered: “I saw no God nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover’d the Infinite in everything, and as I was then persuaded and remained confirm’d that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences, but wrote.”


Whether you agree that Isaiah did not actually see God or, or even if you disagree,there is something to be said about honest indignation.

Ye cannot find the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh: then how can ye search out God, that hath made all these things, and knows his mind, or comprehend his purpose? Juddith from the Apocrypha