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![A Vision of the Last Judgment (1808), by William Blake
Blake, in his notes to A Vision of the Last Judgment, describes how his design is to work: “If the Spectator could Enter into these Images in his Imagination approaching them on the Fiery Chariot of his Contemplative Thought […] then would he arise from his Grave”. He relies on the word representation frequently in the work, and he tries to represent action in a visible manner that distances his depiction of the apocalypse from a traditional version that disguises the various components of an apocalyptic vision. To Blake, he must create an image of the Last Judgment, then represent the image, and then describe with a written gloss of the work. This creates a layer of representation that separates the audience from the apocalyptic experience, which undermines the concept of apocalypse as both mysterious and directly experienced](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llj9354i6z1qzbauho1_500.png)
A Vision of the Last Judgment (1808), by William Blake
Blake, in his notes to A Vision of the Last Judgment, describes how his design is to work: “If the Spectator could Enter into these Images in his Imagination approaching them on the Fiery Chariot of his Contemplative Thought […] then would he arise from his Grave”. He relies on the word representation frequently in the work, and he tries to represent action in a visible manner that distances his depiction of the apocalypse from a traditional version that disguises the various components of an apocalyptic vision. To Blake, he must create an image of the Last Judgment, then represent the image, and then describe with a written gloss of the work. This creates a layer of representation that separates the audience from the apocalyptic experience, which undermines the concept of apocalypse as both mysterious and directly experienced
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![A Vision of the Last Judgment (1808), by William Blake
Blake, in his notes to A Vision of the Last Judgment, describes how his design is to work: “If the Spectator could Enter into these Images in his Imagination approaching them on the Fiery Chariot of his Contemplative Thought […] then would he arise from his Grave”. He relies on the word representation frequently in the work, and he tries to represent action in a visible manner that distances his depiction of the apocalypse from a traditional version that disguises the various components of an apocalyptic vision. To Blake, he must create an image of the Last Judgment, then represent the image, and then describe with a written gloss of the work. This creates a layer of representation that separates the audience from the apocalyptic experience, which undermines the concept of apocalypse as both mysterious and directly experienced](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/The_Vision_of_the_Last_Judgment.png)
