Night 1
26 (4.7) Begin with Tharmas
32 (4.14)Says Enitharmon "hath taken refuge in my bosom & I
cannot cast her out"
68 (5.5) Enion said "Farewell. I die"
78 (5.13) Tharmas sinks "into the sea a pale white corse ... His
spectre issuing from his feet"
86 (5.19) Nine days [Enion] labored: Circle of Destiny
120 (6.1) The Spectre of Tharmas, "her own Created Phantasm" animated
by the force of her song
drawn forth in the
loom of vegetation, Tharmas becomes "self-admiring"
180 (7.8) Spectre now "manifest," the two trade master-slave
positions and "contend," "mingling"
192 (8.2) two little Infants (Los &
Enitharmon)
198
(8.2tn)those in Great Eternity Met in the Council of God / As One
Man
234 (9.21) Weaving mazes of
delight
243 (9.30) She drave the females all away from
Los
And Los drave the Males from her
away
246 (9.33) Conversing with the visions of Beulah
I "FALL" (10.9)
260 Enitharmon's "Song of
Death! It is a Song of
Vala"
(265 (10.14)"Sweet laughter seiz'd me in my sleep" cf. Europe
12.25)
281 (11.3) Los smote her I die not
308 (11.21) Descend, O Urizen says
Enitharmon
Urizen-Los
confrontation. Los: "Try thy Arts. I also will try
mine"
(339 (12.27): Urizen: "Why should the Divine Vision compell
..."?)
347 (12.36) Earth spread forth her table wide the Gold Feast drawing
things in
(373)
Sun-shell
image (11.37-39)
385 (13.20) The (Nuptial) Song
II "FALL" (15.5) as per spirits of the natural
world
410 (15.9) the first beam of the
morning
421 (15.20) "I" (who's speaking?)
424 (16.3) Luvah as pig iron; 431 (16.9) Bursting forth from Loins
442 (17.1) Far in night repelled ... Enion wept (Lamentation of
Enion)
466 (18.11) Eternal Savior's supporting arms for Man at Palm tree
& Oak of weeping
468 (18.15) 1st ending
469 (21.1-2) those in great Eternity ... As one Man
476 (21.8) messengers from Beulah came in tears ... recounting the
Wars of death eternal
III "FALL" (21.16) providential point of
view
488 (21.19) their account of Urizen's offer to
Luvah
504 (22.10) Luvah's response "try my strength with thee' both attack
Albion
525 (22.22) their account of Tharmas taking Enitharmon, who is then
murdered by Enion and
embalm'd in
Enion's bosom
530 (22.27) Urthona's spectre fled to Enion and his body fell ... an
unknown space
551 (19.7) The Family Divine elect the Seven Lamps ... the Seventh is
The Lamb
559 (19.15) 2nd ending
560 (20.1) Daughters of Beulah wept before the Inner gates of
Enitharmon
571-75 (20.11)retrospect
Night 2
IV "FALL" authorial narration (23.1-18)
1 upon his Couch of death Albion beheld his
Sons
9 Urizen rose from the bright Feast like a
star
21 (24.5) on the verge of Non-Existence, the great Workmaster gives
his Word
a Bower
the Mundane Shell
41(25.12) everything fled & Jerusalem came down
72 (25.40) Luvah was cast into the Furnaces of
affliction
80 (26.4) His voice from the
furnaces
96(27.6) Luvah & Vala "weaving mazes of delight ...
Inextricable Labyrinths"
106 (27.16) The hand of Urizen is upon me because I blotted
out
That Human
(terror) delusion to deliver all the sons of
God
From bondage
of the human form
112 (28.2) Reasoning from the loins in the unreal forms of Ulro's
night
121 (28.11) aghast the Children of Man ... saw these visions
145
(29.4) weaving the Atmospheres nets to catch "spirits" (as
"light"?)
163 (30.5) energies ... became seed
173 (30.21) Urizen's Golden hall
(zodiac)
209 (30.51) (Urizen) drave the Male Spirits all away from
Ahania
And she drave all the Females from him
away
214 (30.53) Los & Enitharmon "went down to see the woes / Of Vala
& the woes of Luvah, to draw in their delights"
247 (32.14) the Divine Vision appear'd in Luvah's robes of
blood
(33.18, 33.28) course
269 (33.36) the stars ... their amazing hard subdud
course [Tharmas's corse, 1.78]
295 (34.10) Los & Enitharmon walk'd forth ... Contracting or
expanding
322 (34.36) Los says he "still dies for Enitharmon, nor a spirit
springs from my dead
corse,
Then I am
dead till thou revivest me with thy sweet
song
Now taking
on Ahania's form & now the form of
Enion
334 (34.48) Enitharmon fled ... And left a dead cold corse / In Los's
arms
...
return'd in bliss
344 (34.48)Enitharmon's song: The golden sun bears on my song
383
(34.58)Los revived, drives Enion into the infinite to also draw
Ahania's spirit in her vortex
387 (35.1)Enion's lamentation
Night 3
1 (37.1) Urizen and Ahania [third opening
couple]
"Are not the morning stars thy obedient
sons?" (37.5) (PL)
14 (38.2) Urizen laments "a Boy born of dark Ocean / Whom Urizen
doth serve"
V "FALL" (39.2)
30 (39.2) Ahania's version of the steeds of light affair (Urizen
seduced by Luvah)
"Why didst thou listen to the
voice of Luvah"
50 (40.12) Man Idolatrous to the Shadow from his weakened
Intellect
[47, 100 And the vast form of Nature
like a Serpent]
103 (42.17 tn)All is Confusion. All is tumult & we alone are
escaped
111 (43.5) Urizen casts Ahania to the Earth "Art thou also become
like Vala"?
135 (43.27) the bounds of Destiny were broken
142 (44.3) Falls Into the Caverns of the Grave & places of Human
Seed
149 (44.10) Thro the Confusion, like a crack across from immense to
immense
... a universal groan of
death
from the groan one like a shadow ...
stamping / The nether Abyss ...
Struggling to
become like man ... Tharmas ... The Dead
162 (44.23) Tharmas lamentation (oceanic Enthuthon Benithon)
183
(45.15) Enion lamentation becomes "Only a voice eternal wailing
in the Elements"
Night 4
1 (47.2) Tharmas sees Los & Enitharmon Emerge from the Abyss
his bowels yearned over them
26 (48.3) tells Los "My Son, Glorious in brightness"-- to Rebuild
this Universe a Universe of Death & Decay (48.5) (PL 2.622)
34 (48.15) Los answers "Our God is Urizen the King," but he's
fallen,
And Los remains God over
all
I know I was Urthona ... But now I am all
powerful Los,
& Urthona is but my
shadow
56 (49.4) Tharmas "in a Wave he rap'd bright Enitharmon" far from
Los (cf Od. 11.242)
63 (49.11) calls to the Dark Spectre, tells him to bear Enitharmon
back to the Eternal Prophet, build her a bower
76 (49.27) Spectre of Urthona answers (can't remember that he's
Los)
Tharmas, I know thee: how are we alter'd,
our beauty decay'd! (PL 1.84)
VI "FALL" (50.1)
100 (50.17) recalls division of his counterpart, call'd it Love,
nam'd her Enitharmon, together issuing down the tide only he breaks forth from
breathing nostrils of Enion, tells Tharmas, "I protected thy ghastly
corse"
VII "FALL" (50.29)
11 Tharmas account of that deadly night confirms
victimization by Urizen and
Luvah
When Urizen
gave the horses of Light into the hands of
Luvah
121 (51.2-3) Asks the Shadow to "protect this Son / Of Enion" (e.g.
Los himself)
128 (51.11) Encounter of Tharmas and
Los
Now all comes into the power of Tharmas.
Urizen is fall'n
And Luvah hidden in the
Elemental forms of Life & Death
Urthona is
M Son. O Los, thou art Urthona, & Tharmas / Is God.
VIII "FALL" (51.16)
165 (52.15-16) Los builds the Ruin'd Furnaces
anew
incessant beating many a rock, many a
planet
203 (53.23ff) terrified at the
Shapes
Enslav'd humanity put on, he became what
he beheld.
Raging against Tharmas his
God
208 (54.1) The Eternal Mind, bound ... creation of body of Urizen
(reprise BU)
245 (Urizen's) feet
stamp'd the nether abyss
246 (55.8) The Council of God watches over the Body / Of Man cloth'd
in Luvah's robes of blood
253 (56.1) Daughters of Beulah, Beulah, the Feminine Emanations speak
(beULAH/LUvAH)
269 (56.17) Savior bent over the corse of
Death
found Limit of Opacity, Satan; Limit of
Contraction, Adam (calculus)
288 (55.24) back to Los his loins wav'd like the sea ... the bones of
Los, stamping the abyss
Night 5
1 (57.1) Los & Enitharmon shrink into fixed
space
21 (58.1) Los referred to as Enitharmon's "husband"
26 (58.6) living music floats upon the air
37 (58.17) birth of her terrible child (Orc,
but:)
Demons cry "Luvah, King of Love, thou art
King of rage & death"
IX "FALL" (58.22)
67 (59.22) Sweat & blood stood on the limbs of Los in
globes
76 (60.3) He builded Golgonooza ... Upon the Limit of
Translucence"
94 (60.20) (Los) went each morning to his labours with the spectre
dark 114 (61.10) storgous Appetite
Call'd
it the chain of Jealousy ... Orc bound down
...
His limbs bound down mock at his chains.
For over them a flame
Of circling fire
unceasing plays; to feed them with life
Orc
inwoven in vegetation (becomes organic energy/flame)
176 (63.11) Enitharmon's heart attack on the road of Dranthon (cf
Acts 9)
185 (63.22) Urizen trembles to hear the howling terror his woes
X
"FALL" (63.24) Urizen's confession of his primary
responsibility
210 (64.22) remembers "'O light, spring up & shine' & I
sprang up ..."
234 (65.5) accuses Luvah "Because thou gavest Urizen the wine of the
Almighty
For
Steeds of Light ... I gave thee the Steeds, I pour'd the stolen
wine
And drunken
... fell
Decides to explore, "perhaps ... Luvah
hath burst his way from Enitharmon"
241 (65.12) When Thought is clos'd in Caves ...
Night 6
1 (67.1) Urizen arose spear, silver helmet
6 (67.5) encounters three spirits of Darkness his daughters they
scream and hide themselves in rocky forms
24 (68.6) laments in language evoking Poetical Sketches, Tiriel,
Songs of Innocence, VISIONS
46 (68.28) Tharmas heard scream, rides over in his fury to offer
suicide pact
72 (69.23) Urizen replies not but bounds off, monsters devouring the
path before him
Sees "howlings, gnashings,
groanings, shriekings, shudderings, sobbings,
burstings
Mingle together to create a world for
Los
130 (70.45) He knew they were his Children ruin'd in his ruin'd
world
132 (81.2)Then a lion he would seize / By the fierce man, staying his
howling course
(71.4) in vain the Eloquent Tongue
145 (71.13) Nor could he calm the Elements. Because himself was
subject
156 (71.25) The ever pitying one who seeth all things saw his
fall
As a seed falls ... So Urizen fell
170
(71.34) another resurrection
174 (71.42-72.1) nor can the man who goes / The journey obstinate
refuse to write time after time
186 (72.13) Creating many a Vortex, fixing many a Science ... this
world of Cumbrous Wheels
197 (72.24) 'Where self sustaining I may view all things beneath my
feet?"
245 (73.31) His dire Web ... uttering such woes
265 (74.12)
Caverns:
| Urthona | ||
| Urizen | Void (Tharmas) | |
| Orc |
Eternal:
| Urthona | ||
| Tharmas | Luvah | |
| Urizen |
281 (74.20) Urizen arrives by Providence Divine into Abhorred world
of Dark Urthona
295 (73.31) Faces Shadow of Urthona (quasi-Hercules) and beside him
Tharmas
317 (75.25) Retreats into his web massy globes weaving the web &
preparing his path before him
Night 7 (a)
1 (77.1) Urizen arose others
flee
descends to Caves of Orc (77.5)
19 (77.19) Ranges his books, Envious over Orc (27 the
Envy)
42 (78.15) And Urizen hung over Orc & view'd his terrible wrath
[i.e. Orc?]
Agon his words broke
forth
95 (79.24) calls daughters
99 (79.31) Orc listen'd to the song,
compell'd
110 (80.2) Urizen's Words of Wisdom, so shall (you) govern over all
... Moral Duty (Malthus)
139 (80.31) Orc cried O torment! [worment?] A worm compell'd! Am I a
worm?
146 (80.38) Art thou the cold attractive power that holds me in this
chain?
XI "FALL" 147-48 (80.39) I well remember how I stole thy light & it became
fire /Consuming
151 (80.43) Urizen heard Orc, now certain he was
Luvah
162 (81.3) he made Orc / In serpent form, compell'd [cf "the fast
form of Nature like a Serpent"]
166 (81.7) Los sat in showers of Urizen watching cold Enitharmon
"pale as snow," "like a cold night") his jealous lamentation
210 (82.16) Shadow of Enitharmon descended down the tree of mystery,
which begins to blossom, resulting in "shining fruit ... of various poisonous
qualities / Of Plagues hidden in shining globes that grew on the living
tree
216 Spectre of Urthona woos Shadow of Enitharmon
XII "FALL" (83.5)
237 ff. She reveals
Secret of Eternity
Eternal Man fainted in sweet
bliss on Vala, who then bore Urizen, "first born of Generation" (83.12) appears to "the now fallen man," and a double form of
Vala, Luvah & Vala
259 (83.27) mean time Los was born & Enitharmon, But how I know
not
XIII "FALL" (84.10)
267 (84.11) Spectre responds, "One dread morn the manhood was
divided, for the gentle passions ... thro the nostrils issuing, In odorous
stupefaction ... a female bright
288 (84.21) dividing / I was divided ... thou and I in the womb of
Enion
Issued from
the brain thou & Los [e.g. himself] were
born
311 (85.2) They embrace
315 (85.6) Enitharmon's shadow, pregnant in the deeps beneath /
Brought forth a wonder horrible ... a Cloud, she grew and
grew
332 (85.22) The Spectre gave her charge over Orc
Night 7(b)
2 (95.16) Urizen sat on his rock
11 (95.25) Shadowy Voice answers "First Trades &
Commerce"
18 (96.2) commands Sons to build temple "the Secret Place" ...
allegories of The Generations / Of secret
lust"
29 (96.9) the took the Sun ... the terrific orb[/c] / Compell'd. The
Sun ... they hung it in the temple of Urizen ("Pande ...")
40 (96.22) Los watches "his loins in fires of wars where spears /
And swords rage"
49 (96.28) Tharmas laugh'd furious ... relates how his heart sunk
down "all dividing, till I was divided / In
twain" &
nb sp;
79 (97.25) Los: Flaming his head, like the bright sun seen thro' a
mist that magnifies The disk into a terrible vision so the Eyes of trembling
mortals (cf PL 1.594-6)
81 (97.27) Enitharmon trembling and in
fear
98 (98.8) Enitharmon wreath'd by Oak "forcing his
dark way"
113 (98.22) The Prester Serpent ... the Priest of God
125 (91.2) The nameless shadowy Vortex stood before the face of Orc
(cf Am. 1.1)
Orc Silent as despairing
love & strong as jealousy
Jealous that she
was Vala, now become Urizen's harlot
And the
Harlot of Los & the deluded harlot of the Kings of the
Earth
his lion ... running their immortal
course thro' solid darkness borne
146 (91.23) all the Elemental Gods join'd in the wondrous Song
170
(92.17) Then left the sons of Urizen the plow & harrow
etc.
(92.21) And all the arts of life they chang'd into the arts of
death
187 (92.34) Now the Battle rages round thy tender limb, O
Vala!
[Vala is the battle cf.
"Struggle for survival"]
text note: (93.19)Unorganized innocence an
impossibility
223 (93.22)The Shadowy Female varied the War in her
delight
... making Lamentations / To deceive
Tharmas in his rage
247 (94.16) Says (as Vala) that "Enitharmon & Ahania, combin'd
with Enion / Hid [Luvah] in that Outrageous form of
Orc
269 (95.1) And she went forth ... far & wide she stretch'd thro'
all the worlds of Urizen's journey
296 (95.9) And all the Songs of Beulah sounded comfortable notes
7(a) resumed
337 (85.26) But then the Spectre enter'd Los's bosom ... they
embrace
372 (87.1) But Enitharmon trembling, fled & hid beneath Urizen's
tree
378 (87.6) They Builded Golgonooza
394 (87.21) Enitharmon gets Los to Eat the
fruit
Spectre of Urthona is "medium"between Los
& Enitharmon
401 (87.31) Urthona's Spectre says he is the cause of division, he
began the dreadful state of separation (true or not, by genuinely assuming
"guilt" he is becoming the ransom to save the situation from Eternal Death,
a.k.a. stasis)
439 ( 90.8) Los & Enitharmon. Los: Stern Desire / I feel to
fabricate embodied semblances They do "he drew a line upon the walls of shining
heaven / And Enitharmon tinctur'd it with beams of blushing love"
490 (90.35) And first he drew a line
500 (90.44) First Rintrah and then Palamabron
514 (90.58) First his immortal spirit
Night 8
1 (99.1)Then All in great Eternity met in The Council of God / As
one Man, even Jesus
The (Eternal) Fallen Man
stretch'd like a corse upon the oozy Rock [like Tharmas]
16 (99.11) Man began / To wake
24 (99.19) nothing could restrain the dead in Beulah from descending
/ Unto Ulro's night tempted by the Shadowy female
37 (100.3) In the Looms Cathedron Enitharmon weaves the Spectres
bodies of Vegetation ... singing songs of Lamentation ... as she sigh'd forth on
the wind the spectres
61 (101.1) When Urizen saw the Lamb of God clothed in Luvah's
robes
Perplex'd & terrifi'd he stood, tho
well he knew that Orc
Was Luvah. But he now
beheld a new Luvah, Or one
Who assum'd Luvah's
form ... But he saw Orc a serpent form
85 (101.25) The shadowy female spread herself thro' all the branches
(of the tree of Mystery) in the power of Orc
86 (101.26)Urizen in battle sparkles of dire affliction the battle
takes an unintended form hermaphroditic "Satan"
143 (102.24) the Shadowy Female absorbing / The enormous sciences of
Urizen, says " see the murderer of my Luvah ... / He who assumed my Luvah's
throne in times Everlasting / Where hast thou [nb] hid him whom I love"
181
(103.31) Urizen ... tangled in his own net
194 (104.5)"Then sang the sons of Eden" about weaving and Satan Og
& Sihon unwinding [cf silk trade; cocoons] (104.16)
246 (104.19) Battle still going on around Jerusalem's gates
280
(105.15) Vala ... on her forehead was her name written in blood
"Mystery"
created from the Fruit of Urizen's
tree ... Her daughters are called Tirzah; She is named
Rahab
296 (105.30) Their song
325 (106.1) Thus was the Lamb of God condemn'd to
Death
Los bears it to the Sepulcher
351 (106.48) Los identifies himself as "that shadowy Prophet who six
thousand years ago fell from my station in the Eternal
bosom
The story of Satan and Palamabron
(revision of steeds of light affair with Urizen and Luvah retold in
Milton]
415 (106.18) Urizen sitting in his web becomes
stonied
With Envy he saw Los, with Envy Tharmas
& the Spectre
With Envy & in vain he
swam around his stony form
441 (106.41) becomes a constellated serpent (like Orc
before)
460 (107.15) For now fierce Orc in wrath & fury rises into the
heavens
In forms of priesthood in the dark
delusions of repentance
477 (107.31) And Tharmas gave his power to Los, Urthona gave his
Strength ... for the dread of the dark terrors of Orc & Urizen
491 (108.8) Ahania's lament (reprise of Oothoon in
VDA)
534 (109.13) Enion replied
556 (110.1) The Lamb of God has rend the Veil of Mystery, soon to
return In Clouds & Fires
559 (110.3) As the seed ... Anxious (cf. Enion
1.459)
So Man looks out in tree & herb
& fish & bird & beast
Collecting up
the scatter'd portions of his immortal
body
Into the Elemental forms of every thing
that grows
584 (110.29) Los hears & weeps
600 (111.4) John saw these things Revealed in Heaven ... her Cup / Of
fornication, food of Orc & Satan
616 (111.24) Mystery becomes too obvious, the Synagogue of Satan
reconstitutes her as Deism
"Babylon again in
Infancy, call'd Natural Religion"
Night 9
Being the Last Judgment (!)
9 (117.5) Los "Terrified" tears down sun and moon "cracking the
heavens across from immense to immense (cf 3.149)
14 (117.11) trumpets the Enormous volume of Heaven 7 Earth
24 (117.24) Spectre of Enitharmon waild
32 (118.8) Rahab & Tirzah wail
33 (118.9) Books of Urizen unroll animating volumes (writing becomes
alive)
44 (118.18) Start forth the trembling millions into flames of mental
fire
71 (119.5) Blood issue'd out in rushing volumes
XIV "FALL" (119.27)
93 (119.26) A horrible (cf. Mr. Horeb) rock far in the South; it was
forsaken when
Urizen gave the horses of Light
into the hands of Luvah
On this rock lay the
faded head of the Eternal Man
He lifts the blue
lamps of his Eyes
124 (120.14) "O Prince of Light, where art thou?"
137 (120.27) the Eternal Man was wrath (anger leads to
change)
152 (120.42) War is energy Enslav'd
162 (121.1) Urizen wept ... To reassume the
human
Rage Orc! Rage Tharmas! Urizen no longer
curbs your rage [allows poem to be written this
way]
199 (121.38) Ahania "a smiling corse" through excess of
joy
225 (122.21) I have Erred, & my Error remains with
me
230 (122.26) bursting Universe explodes (mundane apocalypse)
270
(124.27) Appears the Cloud of the Sun of Man The Cloud is Blood
above upon its volumes is beheld a throne
291 (124.6) Then seiz'd the Sons of Urizen the Plow / The noise of
rural works resounded
316 (124.30) The Seed of Men ... the souls ... fall like stars
338
(125.19) flames cause / The human harvest to begin
353 (125.37)Eternal Man ... Sorrowful that he could not put off his
new risen body / In mental flames
365 (126.6) Luvah & Vala return & love in peace / Into your
place, the place of seed
380 (126.23) They saw no more the terrible confusion of the cracking
universe
390 (126.33) Story of Vala
418 (127.24) Rise, sluggish Soul
433
(128.3) a new song arises... / Rise up, O
Sun
464 (128.34) Vala awakes, finds Tharmas &
Enion
553 (131.16) In Eternal Childhood ... they play'd
558 (131.21) Thus were the sleepers entertain'd upon the Couches of
Beulah
568 (131.31) Urizen Cried "Times are Ended!"
617 (133.1) The Eternal Man arose. He welcom'd them to the Feast
[same as it ever was]
626 (133.10) One of the Eternals spoke
647 (133.31) The Eternals (esp. Urizen & Tharmas) rose to labour
at the Vintage
687 (134.34) The Song of an African Blake from the little Earth of
Sotha
692 (135.4) The Song arose to the Golden feast
695 (135.7) Eternal man says "bear away the families of Earth ... no
room / Remains"
713 (135.25) Sounding the Song of Los, descending to the Vineyards
bright.
His sons, arising from the feast with
golden baskets follow
A fiery train, as when
the Sun sings in the ripe vineyards
731 (136.1) the winepresses of Luvah ... the Human grapes sing not
nor dance
774 (137.7)general rising
787 (137.20) the new wine the wine of ages the Human Wine
807 (138.9) The Mills the crushing wheels stern philosophy
824 (138.19) Urthona ... then took his repose in Winter, in the night
of Time
846 (139.1) The Sun arise ... sweet Science reigns.