On a visit to the Tate Gallery, London, in 1984, Shri Mataji spent a considerable time examining William Blake’s Virgil Illustrations.

She bent down towards the glass cabinet in order to see these tiny engravings and She put Her hands out towards each and every engraving to enjoy the vibrations. She kept exclaiming, “What incredible vibrations, can you feel it? They are amazing!”

Meanwhile, She was encouraging the Sahaja Yogis present to do the same and check if they were able to feel the vibrations coming from these tiny dark engravings known as Blake’s Virgil Illustrations.

Each illustration is 3.7 cm x 7.5 cm long.

On this anniversary of William Blake’s birthday, we present a new study about Blake’s art and Sahaja Yoga, containing some of the things Shri Mataji said about William Blake’s Illustrations to Virgil’s eclogue number 1.

There are some Blake scholars who, when it comes to Blake’s Virgil illustrations, say that they are a bit overrated. But it would appear from Shri Mataji’s comments at the Tate Gallery that Shri Mataji did not consider them overrated at all, on the contrary. Also, many of the people who knew Blake at the time he was working on these illustrations were professional artists; and they also felt that these were some of Blake’s greatest sublime creations, even though they look rough and unfinished, and mysterious as to the meaning, but being friends of Blake, they could feel the artistic essence.

Shri Mataji is the ultimate connoisseur of anything relating to William Blake and She was very enthusiastic about these little dark illustrations that are meaningless to some people, and mean a lot to others.

The mini-presentation about these illustrations, which is freely available at the links below, highlights a possible Sahaja meaning – although there are many possible interpretations of these bewildering, tiny wood engravings.