The Divine Image

We, as humans, are linked with Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love. First Blake says “All pray in their distress” We humans have to believe in something, and have a reason to live. We believe there is a higher power, an all-seeing being, who created us we call him God. And when we pray to God it seems like we’re always praying for these four things. In the second stanza he says that God too lives by Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love. We were made to his image and so we in some way represent him, of course we are not his equal. Blake then describes us as Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love its self.


Our heart gives mercy to those who hurt us. Always asking God to show mercy on us for the sins we commit, and when our day comes and we stand before him to be judged he understands we are sorry. We pity those who suffer. Starving kids in Africa, and in other third world countries, as God pities us for the unfair things some of us are put through. Millions of unfair things happen in our world day after day.

 Love is a big one, all we look for is someone to love us and under stand who we are. Many people say that real love is something unattainable. However sometimes people forget that there are many different forms of love, like the way parents love their children more than anything else in this world. People imagine that, that is the way God loves us too, because they say we are all children of God.




 “And Peace, the human dress,” when Blake states this he tells us how humans must show peace, or act peacefully towards each in order to live in harmony as God intends us to. Blake fundamentally says it is essential to live by these four things in order to feel happiness and reach our purpose. If we are able to transmit this to all kinds of people, even those who seem to not deserve it we will be closer to our God.