Hy, first time posting, and not a theory, i have millions of theories
but none conclusive so I will keep them to myself for the time being.
Back
to the facts I want to lay down:
-William
Blake, is clearly the
only rock solid clue that we have in almost all
seasons, and the only one given to us by Red John Himself willingly
The Poem:
The
tiger, tiger poem, from which we can obtain , after we read it of course, the
first clue into the mind of red john, the poem is an artistic way of presenting
William blakes set of believes about the world, the central theme is Evil,( the tiger) the poem consist of 6 stanzas, and all the
lines except one , are questions to the tiger , who created the tiger? where it was created ? how it was formed ? who make
the lamb also made the tiger? The only line that’s not a question is the one
that says Tiger Tiger Burning Bright in the forest of the night.
The
first clue, good and evil, antagonists created by the same hand, contraries
that don’t exclude each other but rather need each other to progress, to go further,
to grow.
Once
we are presented with the poem, we must take a look at William Blake, as the poem is only a mere pointer
to the clue that is the writer.
-William Blakes and his
believes:
(I
will not write about his life, and work but mostly reference bit and pieces in
particular if you want a quick idea of the man you can wiki him)
Across
his writing and art, Blake lay down his thoughts about, man, religion, and his
spiritual believes as well as marriage and sex (he was one of the first writers
part of the first free love movement back in the 19th century)
-The
body is an extension of the soul, a part of it.
-Obedience
to a moral code imposed from the outside of man is against the spirit of life
-I
must Create a System, or be enslaved by another Man's
-He is
the only god, so am I, and so are you (the marriage of heaven and hell)
-Rejects
received ideas, systems, authorities and traditions.
-The
Great Red Dragon (From The revelations Book of john AKA John of atmos, John the
revelator)
John
means = God is Gracious/Benevolent
Red
means= Blood/Fire
RED
JOHN= The Gracious God of Blood and Fire. = Satan/Beelzebub in revelations =The Great Red Dragon
The
Great Red Dragon is a series of paintings created but Blake between 1805 and
1810, 4 of them to be exact that show the red dragon waiting to consume the
child of the lady clothed with and in sun,show the dragon itself and present
him as the beast (the devil).
-The Marriage of heaven and
hell:
Probably
the most relevant piece to understand Blake set of believes and there for clues
into RED JOHN mind.
In The
Marriage of Heaven and hell Blake explains that, without Contraries is no
progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are
necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious
call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy.
Good
being Heaven/Reason/Love/Attraction. Evil being Hell/Energy/Hate/Repulsion.
Blake's
theory of contraries was not a belief in opposites but rather a belief that
each person reflects the contrary nature of God, and that progression in life is impossible without
contraries. Moreover he
explores the contrary nature of reason and of energy, believing that two types
of people existed: the energetic creators and the rational
organizers , or, as he calls them in The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell, the devils" and angels. Both are necessary with out contraries is no progression.
Innocence
and experience (theme that he explores in his book Songs of Innocence and experience, as two
states of the human soul)
With
out one the other cannot be and vice versa, they need each other to have
meaning within themselves.
I Hope
this helps develop or better theories, I think we need to match the whole
picture taking the hints for what they are but not building theories around
them.
Can
wait for next episode, thanks for reading and I apologize if I misspelled any
word, English is not my native language.