The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive

And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country. placing it under its mental deity.


Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of &
enslav’d the vulgar by attempting to realise or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood
Choosing forms of worship from Poetic tales


And at length they announced that the Gods had ordered such things


Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast



 William Blake