Chap: 2 [plates 28-50]
J28; E174| Jerusalem.
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Every ornament of perfection, and every labour of love,
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In all the Garden of Eden, & in all the golden mountains
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Was become an envied horror, and a remembrance of jealousy:
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And every Act a Crime, and Albion the punisher & judge.
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And Albion spoke from his secret seat and said
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All these ornaments are crimes, they are made by the labours
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Of loves: of unnatural consanguinities and friendships
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Horrid to think of when enquired deeply into; and all
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These hills & valleys are accursed witnesses of Sin
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I therefore condense them into solid rocks, stedfast!
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A foundation and certainty and demonstrative truth:
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That Man be separate from Man, & here I plant my seat.
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Cold snows drifted around him: ice coverd his loins around
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He sat by Tyburns brook, and underneath his heel, shot up!
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A deadly Tree, he nam'd it Moral Virtue, and the Law
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Of God who dwells in Chaos hidden from the human sight.
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The Tree spread over him its cold shadows, (Albion groand)
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They bent don, they felt the earth and again enrooting
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Shot into many a Tree! an endless labyrinth of woe!
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From willing sacrifice of Self, to sacrifice of (miscall'd) Enemies
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For Atonement: Albion began to erect twelve Altars,
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Of rough unhewn rocks, before the Potters Furnace
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He nam'd them Justice, and Truth. And Albions Sons
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Must have become the first Victims, being the first transgressors
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But they fled to the mountains to seek ransom: building A Strong
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Fortification against the Divine Humanity and Mercy,
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In Shame & Jealousy to annihilate Jerusalem!
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Turning his back to the Divine Vision, his Spectrous
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Chaos before his face appeard: an Unformed Memory.
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Then spoke the Spectrous Chaos to Albion darkning cold
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From the back & loins where dwell the Spectrous Dead
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I am your Rational Power O Albion & that Human Form
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You call Divine, is but a Worm seventy inches long
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That creeps forth in a night & is dried in the morning sun
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In fortuitous concourse of memorys accumulated & lost
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It plows the Earth in its own conceit, it overwhelms the Hills
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Beneath its winding labyrinths, till a stone of the brook
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Stops it in midst of its pride among its hills & rivers[.]
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Battersea & Chelsea mourn, London & Canterbury tremble
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Their place shall not be found as the wind passes over[.]
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The ancient Cities of the Earth remove as a traveller
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And shall Albions Cities remain when I pass over them
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With my deluge of forgotten remembrances over the tablet
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So spoke the Spectre to Albion. he is the Great Selfhood
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Satan: Worshipd as God by the Mighty Ones of the Earth
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Having a white Dot calld a Center from which branches out
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A Circle in continual gyrations. this became a Heart
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From which sprang numerous branches varying their motions
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Producing many Heads three or seven or ten, & hands & feet
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Innumerable at will of the unfortunate contemplator
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Who becomes his food[:] such is the way of the Devouring Power
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And this is the cause of the appearance in the frowning Chaos[.]
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Albions Emanation which he had hidden in Jealousy
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Appeard now in the frowning Chaos prolific upon the Chaos
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Reflecting back to Albion in Sexual Reasoning Hermaphroditic
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Albion spoke. Who art thou that appearest in gloomy pomp
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Involving the Divine Vision in colours of autumn ripeness
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I never saw thee till this time, nor beheld life abstracted
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Nor darkness immingled with light on my furrowd field
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Whence camest thou! who art thou O loveliest? the Divine Vision
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Is as nothing before thee, faded is all life and joy
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Vala replied in clouds of tears Albions garment embracing
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I was a City & a Temple built by Albions Children.
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I was a Garden planted with beauty I allured on hill & valley
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The River of Life to flow against my walls & among my trees
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Vala was Albions Bride & Wife in great Eternity
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The loveliest of the daughters of Eternity when in day-break
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I emanated from Luvah over the Towers of Jerusalem
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And in her Courts among her little Children offering up
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The Sacrifice of fanatic love! why loved I Jerusalem!
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Why was I one with her embracing in the Vision of Jesus
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Wherefore did I loving create love, which never yet
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Immingled God & Man, when thou & I, hid the Divine Vision
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In cloud of secret gloom which behold involve me round about
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Know me now Albion: look upon me I alone am Beauty
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The Imaginative Human Form is but a breathing of Vala
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I breathe him forth into the Heaven from my secret Cave
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Born of the Woman to obey the Woman O Albion the mighty
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For the Divine appearance is Brotherhood, but I am Love
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Elevate into the Region of Brotherhood with my red fires
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Art thou Vala? replied Albion, image of my repose
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O how I tremble! how my members pour down milky fear!
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A dewy garment covers me all over, all manhood is gone!
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At thy word & at thy look death enrobes me about
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From head to feet, a garment of death & eternal fear
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Is not that Sun thy husband & that Moon thy glimmering Veil?
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Are not the Stars of heaven thy Children! art thou not Babylon?
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Art thou Nature Mother of all! is Jerusalem thy Daughter
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Why have thou elevate inward: O dweller of outward chambers
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From grot & cave beneath the Moon dim region of death
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Where I laid my Plow in the hot noon, where my hot team fed
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Where implements of War are forged, the Plow to go over the Nations
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In pain girding me round like a rib of iron in heaven! O Vala
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In Eternity they neither marry nor are given in marriage
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Albion the high Cliff of the Atlantic is become a barren Land
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Los stood at his Anvil: he heard the contentions of Vala--
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He heavd his thundring Bellows upon the valleys of Middlesex
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He opend his Furnaces before Vala, then Albion frownd in anger
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On his Rock: ere yet the Starry Heavens were fled away
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From his awful Members, and thus Los cried aloud
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To the Sons of Albion & to Hand the eldest Son of Albion
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I hear the screech of Childbirth loud pealing, & the groans
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Of Death, in Albions clouds dreadful utterd over all the Earth
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What may Man be? who can tell! but what may Woman be?
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To have power over Man from Cradle to corruptible Grave.
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There is a Throne in every Man, it is the Throne of God
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This Woman has claimd as her own & Man is no more!
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Albion is the Tabernacle of Vala & her Temple
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And not the Tabernacle & Temple of the Most High
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O Albion why wilt thou Create a Female Will?
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To hide the most evident God in a hidden covert, even
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In the shadows of a Woman & a secluded Holy Place
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That we may pry after him as after a stolen treasure
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Hidden among the Dead & mured up from the paths of life
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Hand! art thou not Reuben enrooting thyself into Bashan
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Till thou remainest a vaporous Shadow in a Void! O Merlin!
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Unknown among the Dead where never before Existence came
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Is this the Female Will O ye lovely Daughters of Albion. To
J30.40; E177|
Converse concerning Weight & Distance in the Wilds of Newton &
Locke
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So Los spoke standing on Mam-Tor looking over Europe & Asia
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The Graves thunder beneath his feet from Ireland to Japan
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Reuben slept in Bashan like one dead in the valley
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Cut off from Albions mountains & from all the Earths summits
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Between Succoth & Zaretan beside the Stone of Bohan
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While the Daughters of Albion divided Luvah into three Bodies
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Los bended his Nostrils down to the Earth, then sent him over
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Jordan to the Land of the Hittite: every-one that saw him
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Fled! they fled at his horrible Form: they hid in caves
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And dens, they looked on one-another & became what they beheld
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Reuben return'd to Bashan, in despair he slept on the Stone.
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Then Gwendolen divided into Rahab & Tirza in Twelve Portions[.]
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Los rolled, his Eyes into two narrow circles, then sent him
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Over Jordan; all terrified fled: they became what they beheld.
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If Perceptive Organs vary: Objects of Perception seem to vary:
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If the Perceptive Organs close: their Objects seem to close also:
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Consider this O mortal Man! O worm of sixty winters said Los
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Consider Sexual Organization & hide thee in the dust.
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Then the Divine hand found the Two Limits, Satan and Adam,
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In Albions bosom: for in every Human bosom those Limits stand.
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And the Divine voice came from the Furnaces, as multitudes without
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Number! the voices of the innumerable multitudes of Eternity.
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And the appearance of a Man was seen in the Furnaces;
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Saving those who have sinned from the punishment of the Law,
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(In pity of the punisher whose state is eternal death,)
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And keeping them from Sin by the mild counsels of his love.
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Albion goes to Eternal Death: In Me all Eternity.
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Must pass thro' condemnation, and awake beyond the Grave!
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No individual can keep these Laws, for they are death
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To every energy of man, and forbid the springs of life;
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Albion hath enterd the State Satan! Be permanent O State!
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And be thou for ever accursed! that Albion may arise again:
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And be thou created into a State! I go forth to Create
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States: to deliver Individuals evermore! Amen.
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So spoke the voice from the Furnaces, descending into Non-Entity
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[To Govern the Evil by Good: and States abolish Systems.]
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Reuben return'd to his place, in vain he sought beautiful Tirzah
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For his Eyelids were narrowd, & his Nostrils scented the ground
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And Sixty Winters Los raged in the Divisions of Reuben:
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Building the Moon of Ulro, plank by plank & rib by rib
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Reuben slept in the Cave of Adam, and Los folded his Tongue
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Between Lips of mire & clay, then sent him forth over Jordan
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In the love of Tirzah he said Doubt is my food day & night--
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All that beheld him fled howling and gnawed their tongues
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For pain: they became what they beheld[.] In reasonings Reuben returned
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To Heshbon. disconsolate he walkd thro Moab & he stood
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Before the Furnaces of Los in a horrible dreamful slumber,
J32.12; E178|
On Mount Gilead looking toward Gilgal: and Los bended
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His Ear in a spiral circle outward; then sent him over Jordan.
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The Seven Nations fled before him they became what they beheld
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Hand, Hyle & Coban fled: they became what they beheld
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Gwantock & Peachy hid in Damascus beneath Mount Lebanon
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Brereton & Slade in Egypt. Hutton & Skofeld & Kox
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Fled over Chaldea in terror in pains in every nerve
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Kotope & Bowen became what they beheld, fleeing over the Earth
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And the Twelve Female Emanations fled with them agonizing.
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Jerusalem trembled seeing her Children drivn by Los's Hammer
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In the visions of the dreams of Beulah on the edge of Non-Entity
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Hand stood between Reuben & Merlin, as the Reasoning Spectre
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Stands between the Vegetative Man & his Immortal Imagination
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And the Four Zoa's clouded rage East & West & North & South
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They change their situations, in the Universal Man.
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Albion groans, he sees the Elements divide before his face.
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And England who is Brittannia divided into Jerusalem & Vala
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And Urizen assumes the East, Luvah assumes the South
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In his dark Spectre ravening from his open Sepulcher
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And the Four Zoa's who are the Four Eternal Senses of Man
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Became Four Elements separating from the Limbs of Albion
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These are their names in the Vegetative Generation
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[West Weighing East & North dividing Generation South bounding]
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And Accident & Chance were found hidden in Length Bredth & Highth
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And they divided into Four ravening deathlike Forms
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Fairies & Genii & Nymphs & Gnomes of the Elements.
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These are States Permanently Fixed by the Divine Power
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The Atlantic Continent sunk round Albions cliffy shore
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And the Sea poured in amain upon the Giants of Albion
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As Los bended the Senses of Reuben Reuben is Merlin
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Exploring the Three States of Ulro; Creation; Redemption. & Judgment
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And many of the Eternal Ones laughed after their manner
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Have you known the judgment that is arisen among the
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Zoa's of Albion? where a Man dare hardly to embrace
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His own Wife, for the terrors of Chastity that they call
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By the name of Morality. their Daughters govern all
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I hidden deceit! they are Vegetable only fit for burning
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Art & Science cannot exist but by Naked Beauty displayd
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Then those in Great Eternity who contemplate on Death
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Said thus. What seems to Be: Is: To those to whom
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It seems to Be, & is productive of the most dreadful
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Consequences to those to whom it seems to Be: even of
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Torments, Despair, Eternal Death; but the Divine Mercy
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Steps beyond and Redeems Man in the Body of Jesus Amen
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And Length Bredth Highth again Obey the Divine Vision Hallelujah
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And One stood forth from the Divine Family &,said t281
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I feel my Spectre rising upon me! Albion! arouze thyself!
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Why dost thou thunder with frozen Spectrous wrath against us?
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The Spectre is, in Giant Man; insane, and most deform'd.
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Thou wilt certainly provoke my Spectre against thine in fury!
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He has a Sepulcher hewn out of a Rock ready for thee:
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And a Death of Eight thousand years forg'd by thyself, upon
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The point of his Spear! if thou persistest to forbid with Laws
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Our Emanations, and to attack our secret supreme delights
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So Los spoke: But when he saw blue death in Albions feet, t282
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Again he join'd the Divine Body, following merciful;
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While Albion fled more indignant! revengeful covering
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His face and bosom with petrific hardness, and his hands
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And feet, lest any should enter his bosom & embrace
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His hidden heart; his Emanation wept & trembled within him:
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Uttering not his jealousy, but hiding it as with
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Iron and steel, dark and opake, with clouds & tempests brooding:
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His strong limbs shudderd upon his mountains high and dark.
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Turning from Universal Love petrific as he went,
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His cold against the warmth of Eden rag'd with loud
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Thunders of deadly war (the fever of the human soul)
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Fires and clouds of rolling smoke! but mild the Saviour follow'd him,
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Displaying the Eternal Vision! the Divine Similitude!
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In loves and tears of brothers, sisters, sons, fathers, and friends
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Which if Man ceases to behold, he ceases to exist:
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Saying. Albion! Our wars are wars of life, & wounds of love,
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With intellectual spears, & long winged arrows of thought:
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Mutual in one anothers love and wrath all renewing
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We live as One Man; for contracting our infinite senses
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We behold multitude; or expanding: we behold as one,
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As One Man all the Universal Family; and that One Man
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We call Jesus the Christ: and he in us, and we in him,
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Live in perfect harmony in Eden the land of life,
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Giving, recieving, and forgiving each others trespasses.
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He is the Good shepherd, he is the Lord and master:
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He is the Shepherd of Albion, he is all in all,
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In Eden: in the garden of God: and in heavenly Jerusalem.
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If we have offended, forgive us, take not vengeance against us.
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Thus speaking; the Divine Family follow Albion:
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I see them in the Vision of God upon my pleasant valleys.
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I behold London; a Human awful wonder of God!
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He says: Return, Albion, return! I give myself for thee:
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My Streets are my, Ideas of Imagination.
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Awake Albion, awake! and let us awake up together.
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My Houses are Thoughts: my Inhabitants; Affections,
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The children of my thoughts, walking within my blood-vessels,
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Shut from my nervous form which sleeps upon the verge of Beulah
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In dreams of darkness, while my vegetating blood in veiny pipes,
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Rolls dreadful thro' the Furnaces of Los, and the Mills of Satan.
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For Albions sake, and for Jerusalem thy Emanation
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I give myself, and these my brethren give themselves for Albion.
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So spoke London, immortal Guardian! I heard in Lambeths shades:
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In Felpham I heard and saw the Visions of Albion
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I write in South Molton Street what I both see and hear
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In regions of Humanity, in Londons opening streets.
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I see thee awful Parent Land in light, behold I see!
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Verulam! Canterbury! venerable parent of men,
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Generous immortal Guardian golden clad! for Cities
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Are Men, fathers of multitudes, and Rivers & Mount[a]ins
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Are also Men; every thing is Human, mighty! sublime!
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In every bosom a Universe expands, as wings
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Let down at will around, and call'd the Universal Tent.
J34.51; E180|
York, crown'd with loving kindness. Edinburgh, cloth'd
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With fortitude as with a garment of immortal texture
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Woven in looms of Eden, in spiritual deaths of mighty men
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Who give themselves, in Golgotha, Victims to Justice; where
J34.55; E181|
There is in Albion a Gate of precious stones and gold
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Seen only by Emanations, by vegetations viewless,
J34.57; E181|
Bending across the road of Oxford Street; it from Hyde Park
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To Tyburns deathful shades, admits the wandering souls
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Of multitudes who die from Earth: this Gate cannot be found
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By Satans Watch-fiends tho' they search numbering every grain
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Of sand on Earth every night, they never find this Gate.
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It is the Gate of Los. Withoutside is the Mill, intricate, dreadful
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And fill'd with cruel tortures; but no mortal man can find the Mill
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Of Satan, in his mortal pilgrimage of seventy years
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For Human beauty knows it not: nor can Mercy find it! But t283
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In the Fourth region of Humanity, Urthona namd[,]
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Mortality begins to roll the billows of Eternal Death
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Before the Gate of Los. Urthona here is named Los.
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And here begins the System of Moral Virtue, named Rahab. t284
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Albion fled thro' the Gate of Los, and he stood in the Gate.
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Los was the friend of Albion who most lov'd him. In Cambridgeshire
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His eternal station, he is the twenty-eighth, & is four-fold.
J35.14; E181|
Seeing Albion had turn'd his back aginst the Divine Vision,
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Los said to Albion, Whither fleest thou? Albion reply'd.
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I die! I go to Eternal Death! the shades of death
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Hover within me & beneath, and spreading themselves outside
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Like rocky clouds, build me a gloomy monument of woe:
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Will none accompany me in my death? or be a Ransom for me
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In that dark Valley? I have girded round my cloke, and on my feet
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Bound these black shoes of death, & on my hands, death's iron gloves:
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God hath forsaken me, & my friends are become a burden
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A weariness to me, & the human footstep is a terror to me.
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Los answerd, troubled: and his soul was rent in twain:
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Must the Wise die for an Atonement? does Mercy endure Atonement?
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No! It is Moral Severity, & destroys Mercy in its Victim.
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So speaking, not yet infected with the Error & Illusion,
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Los shudder'd at beholding Albion, for his disease
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Arose upon him pale and ghastly: and he call'd around
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The Friends of Albion: trembling at the sight of Eternal Death
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The four appear'd with their Emanations in fiery
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Chariots: black their fires roll beholding Albions House of Eternity
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Damp couch the flames beneath and silent, sick, stand shuddering
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Before the Porch of sixteen pillars: weeping every one
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Descended and fell down upon their knees round Albions knees,
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Swearing the Oath of God! with awful voice of thunders round
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Upon the hills & valleys, and the cloudy Oath roll'd far and wide
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Albion is sick! said every Valley, every mournful Hill
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And every River: our brother Albion is sick to death.
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He hath leagued himself with robbers! he hath studied the arts
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Of unbelief! Envy hovers over him! his Friends are his abhorrence!
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Those who give their lives for him are despised!
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Those who devour his soul, are taken into his bosom!
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To destroy his Emanation is their intention:
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Arise! awake O Friends of the Giant Albion
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They have perswaded him of horrible falshoods!
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They have sown errors over all his fruitful fields!
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The Twenty-four heard! they came trembling on watry chariots.
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Borne by the Living Creatures of the third procession
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Of Human Majesty, the Living Creatures wept aloud as they
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Went along Albions roads, till they arriv'd at Albions House.
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O! how the torments of Eternal Death, waited on Man:
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And the loud-rending bars of the Creation ready to burst:
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That the wide world might fly from its hinges, & the immortal mansion
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Of Man, for ever be possess'd by monsters of the deeps:
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And Man himself become a Fiend, wrap'd in an endless curse,
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Consuming and consum'd for-ever in flames of Moral Justice.
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For had the Body of Albion fall'n down, and from its dreadful ruins
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Let loose the enormous Spectre on the darkness of the deep,
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At enmity with the Merciful & fill'd with devouring fire,
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A nether-world must have recievd the foul enormous spirit,
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Under pretence of Moral Virtue, fill'd with Revenge and Law.
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There to eternity chain'd down, and issuing in red flames
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And curses, with his mighty arms brandish'd against the heavens
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Breathing cruelty blood & vengeance, gnashing his teeth with pain
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Torn with black storms, & ceaseless torrents of his own consuming fire:
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Within his breast his mighty Sons chaind down & fill'd with cursings:
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And his dark Eon, that once fair crystal form divinely clear:
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Within his ribs producing serpents whose souls are flames of fire.
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But, glory to the Merciful-One, for he is of tender mercies!
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And the Divine Family wept over him as One Man.
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And these the Twenty-four in whom the Divine Family
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Appear'd; and they were One in Him. A Human Vision!
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Human Divine, Jesus the Saviour, blessed for ever and ever.
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Selsey, true friend! who afterwards submitted to be devourd
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By the waves of Despair, whose Emanation rose above
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The flood, and was nam'd Chichester, lovely mild & gentle! Lo!
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Her lambs bleat to the sea-fowls cry, lamenting still for Albion.
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Submitting to be call'd the son of Los the terrible vision:
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Winchester stood devoting himself for Albion: his tents
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Outspread with abundant riches, and his Emanations
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Submitting to be call'd Enitharmons daughters, and be born
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In vegetable mould: created by the Hammer and Loom
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In Bowlahoola & Allamanda where the Dead wail night & day.
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(I call them by their English names: English, the rough basement.
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Los built the stubborn structure of the Language, acting against
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Albions melancholy, who must else have been a Dumb despair.)
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Gloucester and Exeter and Salisbury and Bristol: and benevolent
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Bath who is Legions: he is the Seventh, the physician and
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The poisoner: the best and worst in Heaven and Hell:
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Whose Spectre first assimilated with Luvah in Albions mountains
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A triple octave he took, to reduce Jerusalem to twelve
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To cast Jerusalem forth upon the wilds to Poplar & Bow:
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To Malden & Canterbury in the delights of cruelty:
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The Shuttles of death sing in the sky to Islington & Pancrass
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Round Marybone to Tyburns River, weaving black melancholy as a net,
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And despair as meshes closely wove over the west of London,
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Where mild Jerusalem sought to repose in death & be no more.
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She fled to Lambeths mild Vale and hid herself beneath
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The Surrey Hills where Rephaim terminates: her Sons are siez'd
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For victims of sacrifice; but Jerusalem cannot be found! Hid
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By the Daughters of Beulah: gently snatch'd away: and hid in Beulah
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There is a Grain of Sand in Lambeth that Satan cannot find
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Nor can his Watch Fiends find it: tis translucent & has many Angles
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But he ho finds it will find Oothoons palace, for within
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Opening into Beulah every angle is a lovely heaven
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But should the Watch Fiends find it, they would call it Sin
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And lay its Heavens & their inhabitants in blood of punishment
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Here Jerusalem & Vala were hid in soft slumberous repose
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Hid from the terrible East, shut up in the South & West.
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The Twenty-eight trembled in Deaths dark caves, in cold despair
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They kneeld around the Couch of Death in deep humiliation
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And tortures of self condemnation while their Spectres ragd within.
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The Four Zoa's in terrible combustion clouded rage
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Drinking the shuddering fears & loves of Albions Families
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Destroying by selfish affections the things that they most admire
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Drinking & eating, & pitying & weeping, as at a trajic scene.
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The soul drinks murder & revenge, & applauds its own holiness
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[illustration, with inscription, reversed: "Each Man is in / his
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Spectre's power / Untill the arrival / of that hour, / When his
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Humanity / awake / And cast his Spectre / into the Lake"]
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They saw their Wheels rising up poisonous against Albion
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Urizen, cold & scientific: Luvah, pitying & weeping
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Tharmas, indolent & sullen: Urthona, doubting & despairing
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Victims to one another & dreadfully plotting against each other
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To prevent Albion walking about in the Four Complexions.
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They saw America clos'd out by the Oaks of the western shore;
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And Tharmas dash'd on the Rocks of the Altars of Victims in Mexico.
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If we are wrathful Albion will destroy Jerusalem with rooty Groves
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If we are merciful, ourselves must suffer destruction on his Oaks!
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Why should we enter into our Spectres, to behold our own corruptions
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O God of Albion descend! deliver Jerusalem from the Oaken Groves!
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Then Los grew furious raging: Why stand we here trembling around
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Calling on God for help; and not ourselves in whom God dwells
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Stretching a hand to save the falling Man: are we not Four
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Beholding Albion upon the Precipice ready to fall into Non-Entity:
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Seeing these Heavens & Hells conglobing in the Void. Heavens over Hells
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Brooding in holy hypocritic lust, drinking the cries of pain
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From howling victims of Law: building Heavens Twenty-seven-fold.
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Swelld & bloated General Forms, repugnant to the Divine-
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Humanity, who is the Only General and Universal Form
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To which all Lineaments tend & seek with love & sympathy
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All broad & general principles belong to benevolence
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Who protects minute particulars, every one in their own identity.
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But here the affectionate touch of the tongue is closd in by deadly teeth
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And the soft smile of friendship & the open dawn of benevolence
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Become a net & a trap, & every energy renderd cruel,
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Till the existence of friendship & benevolence is denied:
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The wine of the Spirit & the vineyards of the Holy-One.
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Here: turn into poisonous stupor & deadly intoxication:
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That they may be condemnd by Law & the Lamb of God be slain!
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And the two Sources of Life in Eternity[,] Hunting and War,
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Are become the Sources of dark & bitter Death & of corroding Hell:
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The open heart is shut up in integuments of frozen silence
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That the spear that lights it forth may shatter the ribs & bosom
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A pretence of Art, to destroy Art: a pretence of Liberty
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To destroy Liberty. a pretence of Religion to destroy Religion
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Oshea and Caleb fight: they contend in the valleys of Peor
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In the terrible Family Contentions of those who love each other:
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The Armies of Balaam weep---no women come to the field
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Dead corses lay before them, & not as in Wars of old.
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For the Soldier who fights for Truth, calls his enemy is brother:
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They fight & contend for life, & not for eternal death!
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But here the Soldier strikes, & a dead corse falls at his feet
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Nor Daughter nor Sister nor Mother come forth to embosom the Slain!
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But Death! Eternal Death! remains in the Valleys of Peor.
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The English are scatterd over the face of the Nations: are these
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Jerusalems children? Hark! hear the Giants of Albion cry at night
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We smell the blood of the English! we delight in their blood on our Altars!
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The living & the dead shall be ground in our rumbling Mills
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For bread of the Sons of Albion: of the Giants Hand & Scofield
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Scofeld & Kox are let loose upon my Saxons! they accumulate
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A World in which Man is by his Nature the Enemy of Man,
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In pride of Selfhood unwieldy stretching out into Non Entity
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Generalizing Art & Science till Art & Science is lost.
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Bristol & Bath, listen to my words, & ye Seventeen: give ear!
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It is easy to acknowledge a man to be great & good while we
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Derogate from him in the trifles & small articles of that goodness:
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Those alone are his friends, who admire his minutest powers[.]
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Instead of Albions lovely mountains & the curtains of Jerusalem
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I see a Cave, a Rock, a Tree deadly and poisonous, unimaginative:
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Instead of the Mutual Forgivenesses, the Minute Particulars, I see
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Pits of bitumen ever burning: artificial Riches of the Canaanite
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Like Lakes of liquid lead: instead of heavenly Chapels, built
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By our dear Lord: I see Worlds crusted with snows & ice;
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I see a Wicker Idol woven round Jerusalems children. I see
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The Canaanite, the Amalekite, the Moabite, the Egyptian:
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By Demonstrations the cruel Sons of Quality & Negation.
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Driven on the Void in incoherent despair into Non Entity
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I see America closd apart, & Jerusalem driven in terror
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Away from Albions mountains, far away from Londons spires!
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I will not endure this thing! I alone withstand to death,
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This outrage! Ah me! how sick & pale you all stand round me!
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Ah me! pitiable ones! do you also go to deaths vale?
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All you my Friends & Brothers! all you my beloved Companions!
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Have you also caught the infection of Sin & stern Repentance?
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I see Disease arise upon you! yet speak to me and give
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Me some comfort: why do you all stand silent? I alone
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Remain in permanent strength. Or is all this goodness & pity, only
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That you may take the greater vengeance in your Sepulcher.
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So Los spoke. Pale they stood around the House of Death:
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In the midst of temptations & despair: among the rooted Oaks:
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Among reared Rocks of Albions Sons, at length they rose
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With one accord in love sublime, & as on Cherubs wings
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They Albion surround with kindest violence to bear him back
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Against his will thro Los's Gate to Eden: Four-fold; loud!
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Their Wings waving over the bottomless Immense: to bear
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Their awful charge back to his native home: but Albion dark,
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Repugnant; rolld his Wheels backward into Non-Entity
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Loud roll the Starry Wheels of Albion into the World of Death
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And all the Gate of Los, clouded with clouds redounding from
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Albions dread Wheels, stretching out spaces immense between
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That every little particle of light & air, became Opake
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Black & immense, a Rock of difficulty & a Cliff
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Of black despair; that the immortal Wings labourd against
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Cliff after cliff, & over Valleys of despair & death:
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The narrow Sea between Albion & the Atlantic Continent:
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Its waves of pearl became a boundless Ocean bottomless,
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Of grey obscurity, filld with clouds & rocks & whirling waters
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And Albions Sons ascending & descending in the horrid Void.
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But as the Will must not be bended but in the day of Divine
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Power: silent calm & motionless, in the mid-air sublime,
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The Family Divine hover around the darkend Albion.
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Such is the nature of the Ulro: that whatever enters:
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Becomes Sexual, & is Created, and Vegetated, and Born.
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From Hyde Park spread their vegetating roots beneath Albion
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In dreadful pain the Spectrous Uncircumcised Vegetation.
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Forming a Sexual Machine: an Aged Virgin Form.
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In Erins Land toward the north, joint after joint & burning
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In love & jealousy immingled & calling it Religion
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And feeling the damps of death they with one accord delegated Los
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Conjuring him by the Highest that he should Watch over them
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Till Jesus shall appear: & they gave their power to Los
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Naming him the Spirit of Prophecy, calling him Elijah
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Strucken with Albions disease they become what they behold;
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They assimilate with Albion in pity & compassion;
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Their Emanations return not: their Spectres rage in the Deep
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The Slumbers of Death came over them around the Couch of Death
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Before the Gate of Los & in the depths of Non Entity
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Among the Furnaces of Los: among the Oaks of Albion.
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Man is adjoind to Man by his Emanative portion:
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Who is Jerusalem in every individual Man: and her
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Shadow is Vala, builded by the Reasoning power in Man
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O search & see: turn your eyes inward: open O thou World
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Of Love & Harmony in Man: expand thy ever lovely Gates.
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They wept into the deeps a little space at length was heard
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The voice of Bath, faint as the voice of the Dead in the House of Death
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Bath, healing City! whose wisdom in midst of Poetic
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Fervor: mild spoke thro' the Western Porch, in soft gentle tears
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O Albion mildest Son of Eden! clos'd is thy Western Gate
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Brothers of Eternity! this Man whose great example
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We all admir'd & lov'd, whose all benevolent countenance, seen
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In Eden, in lovely Jerusalem, drew even from envy
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The tear: and the confession of honesty, open & undisguis'd
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From mistrust and suspition. The Man is himself become
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A piteous example of oblivion. To teach the Sons
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Of Eden, that however great and glorious; however loving
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And merciful the Individuality; however high
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Our palaces and cities, and however fruitful are our fields
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In Selfhood, we are nothing: but fade away in mornings breath,
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Our mildness is nothing: the greatest mildness we can use
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Is incapable and nothing! none but the Lamb of God can heal
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This dread disease: none but Jesus! O Lord descend and save!
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Albions Western Gate is clos'd: his death is coming apace!
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Jesus alone can save him; for alas we none can know
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How soon his lot may be our own. When Africa in sleep
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Rose in the night of Beulah, and bound down the Sun & Moon
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His friends cut his strong chains, & overwhelm'd his dark
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Machines in fury & destruction, and the Man reviving repented
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He wept before his wrathful brethren, thankful & considerate
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For their well timed wrath. But Albions sleep is not
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Like Africa's: and his machines are woven with his life
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Nothing but mercy can save him! nothing but mercy interposing
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Lest he should slay Jerusalem in his fearful jealousy
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O God descend! gather our brethren, deliver Jerusalem
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But that we may omit no office of the friendly spirit
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Oxford take thou these leaves of the Tree of Life: with eloquence
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That thy immortal tongue inspires; present them to Albion:
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Perhaps he may recieve them, offerd from thy loved hands.
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So spoke, unheard by Albion. the merciful Son of Heaven
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To those whose Western Gates were open, as they stood weeping
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Around Albion: but Albion heard him not; obdurate! hard!
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He frown'd on all his Friends, counting them enemies in his sorrow
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And the Seventeen conjoining with Bath, the Seventh:
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In whom the other Ten shone manifest, a Divine Vision!
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Assimilated and embrac'd Eternal Death for Albions sake.
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And these the names of the Eighteen combining with those Ten
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Bath, mild Physician of Eternity, mysterious power
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Whose springs are unsearchable & knowledg infinite.
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Hereford, ancient Guardian of Wales, whose hands
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Builded the mountain palaces of Eden, stupendous works!
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Lincoln, Durham & Carlisle, Councellors of Los.
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And Ely, Scribe of Los, whose pen no other hand
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Dare touch! Oxford, immortal Bard! with eloquence
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Divine, he wept over Albion: speaking the words of God
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In mild perswasion: bringing leaves of the Tree of Life.
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Thou art in Error Albion, the Land of Ulro:
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One Error not remov'd, will destroy a human Soul
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Repose in Beulahs night, till the Error is remov'd
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Reason not on both sides. Repose upon our bosoms
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Till the Plow of Jehovah, and the Harrow of Shaddai
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Have passed over the Dead, to awake the Dead to Judgment.
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But Albion turn'd away refusing comfort.
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Oxford trembled while he spoke, then fainted in the arms
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Of Norwich, Peterboro, Rochester, Chester awful, Worcester,
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Litchfield, Saint Davids, Landaff, Asaph, Bangor, Sodor,
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Bowing their heads devoted: and the Furnaces of Los
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Began to rage, thundering loud the storms began to roar
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Upon the Furnaces, and loud the Furnaces rebellow beneath
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And these the Four in whom the twenty-four appear'd four-fold:
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Verulam, London, York, Edinburgh, mourning one towards another
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Alas!--The time will come, when a mans worst enemies
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Shall be those of his own house and family: in a Religion
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Of Generation, to destroy by Sin and Atonement, happy Jerusalem,
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The Bride and Wife of the Lamb. O God thou art Not an Avenger!
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Thus Albion sat, studious of others in his pale disease:
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Brooding on evil: but when Los opend the Furnaces before him:
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He saw that the accursed things were his own affections,
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And his own beloveds: then he turn'd sick! his soul died within him
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Also Los sick & terrified beheld the Furnaces of Death
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And must have died, but the Divine Saviour descended
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Among the infant loves & affections, and the Divine Vision wept
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Like evening dew on every herb upon the breathing ground
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Albion spoke in his dismal dreams: O thou deceitful friend
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Worshipping mercy & beholding thy friend in such affliction:
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Los! thou now discoverest thy turpitude to the heavens.
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I demand righteousness & justice. O thou ingratitude!
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Give me my Emanations back[,] food for my dying soul!
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My daughters are harlots! my sons are accursed before me.
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Enitharmon is my daughter: accursed with a fathers curse!
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O! I have utterly been wasted! I have given my daughters to devils
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So spoke Albion in gloomy majesty, and deepest night
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Of Ulro rolld round his skirts from Dover to Cornwall.
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Los answerd. Righteousness & justice I give thee in return
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For thy righteousness! but I add mercy also, and bind
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Thee from destroying these little ones: am I to be only
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Merciful to thee and cruel to all that thou hatest[?]
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Thou wast the Image of God surrounded by the Four Zoa's
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Three thou hast slain! I am the Fourth: thou canst not destroy me.
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Thou art in Error; trouble me not with thy righteousness.
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I have innocence to defend and ignorance to instruct:
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I have no time for seeming; and little arts of compliment,
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In morality and virtue: in self-glorying and pride.
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There is a limit of Opakeness, and a limit of Contraction;
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In every Individual Man, and the limit of Opakeness,
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Is named Satan: and the limit of Contraction is named Adam.
J42.32; E189|
But when Man sleeps in Beulah, the Saviour in mercy takes
J42.33; E189|
Contractions Limit, and of the Limit he forms Woman: That
J42.34; E189|
Himself may in process of time be born Man to redeem
J42.35; E189|
But there is no Limit of Expansion! there is no Limit of Translucence.
J42.36; E189|
In the bosom of Man for ever from eternity to eternity.
J42.37; E189|
Therefore I break thy bonds of righteousness; I crush thy messengers!
J42.38; E189|
That they may not crush me and mine: do thou be righteous,
J42.39; E189|
And I will return it; otherwise I defy thy worst revenge:
J42.40; E190|
Consider me as thine enemy: on me turn all thy fury
J42.41; E190|
But destroy not these little ones, nor mock the Lords anointed:
J42.42; E190|
Destroy not by Moral Virtue, the little ones whom he hath chosen!
J42.43; E190|
The little ones whom he hath chosen in preference to thee.
J42.44; E190|
He hath cast thee off for ever; the little ones he hath anointed!
J42.45; E190|
Thy Selfhood is for ever accursed from the Divine presence
J42.46; E190|
So Los spoke: then turn'd his face & wept for Albion.
J42.47; E190|
Albion replied. Go! Hand & Hyle! sieze the abhorred friend:
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As you Have siezd the Twenty-four rebellious ingratitudes;
J42.49; E190|
To atone for you, for spiritual death! Man lives by deaths of Men
J42.50; E190|
Bring him to justice before heaven here upon London stone,
J42.51; E190|
Between Blackheath & Hounslow, between Norwood & Finchley
J42.52; E190|
All that they have is mine: from my free genrous gift,
J42.53; E190|
They now hold all they have: ingratitude to me!
J42.54; E190|
To me their benefactor calls aloud for vengeance deep.
J42.55; E190|
Los stood before his Furnaces awaiting the fury of the Dead:
J42.56; E190|
And the Divine hand was upon him, strengthening him mightily.
J42.57; E190|
The Spectres of the Dead cry out from the deeps beneath
J42.58; E190|
Upon the hills of Albion; Oxford groans in his iron furnace
J42.59; E190|
Winchester in his den & cavern; they lament against
J42.60; E190|
Albion: they curse their human kindness & affection
J42.61; E190|
They rage like wild beasts in the forests of affliction
J42.62; E190|
In the dreams of Ulro they repent of their human kindness.
J42.63; E190|
Come up, build Babylon, Rahab is ours & all her multitudes
J42.64; E190|
With her in pomp and glory of victory. Depart
J42.65; E190|
Ye twenty-four into the deeps! let us depart to glory!
J42.66; E190|
Their Human majestic forms sit up upon their Couches
J42.67; E190|
Of death: they curb their Spectres as with iron curbs
J42.68; E190|
They enquire after Jerusalem in the regions of the dead,
J42.69; E190|
With the voices of dead men, low, scarcely articulate,
J42.70; E190|
And with tears cold on their cheeks they weary repose.
J42.71; E190|
O when shall the morning of the grave appear, and when
J42.72; E190|
Shall our salvation come? we sleep upon our watch
J42.73; E190|
We cannot awake! and our Spectres rage in the forests
J42.74; E190|
O God of Albion where art thou! pity the watchers!
J42.75; E190|
Thus mourn they. Loud the Furnaces of Los thunder upon
J42.76; E190|
The clouds of Europe & Asia, among the Serpent Temples!
J42.77; E190|
And Los drew his Seven Furnaces around Albions Altars
J42.78; E190|
And as Albion built his frozen Altars, Los built the Mundane Shell,
J42.79; E190|
In the Four Regions of Humanity East & West & North & South,
J42.80; E191|
Till Norwood & Finchley & Blackheath & Hounslow, coverd the
whole Earth.
J42.81; E191|
This is the Net & Veil of Vala, among the Souls of the Dead.
J43.1; E191|
Then the Divine Vision like a silent Sun appeard above
J43.2; E191|
Albions dark rocks: setting behind the Gardens of Kensington
J43.3; E191|
On Tyburns River, in clouds of blood: where was mild Zion Hills
J43.4; E191|
Most ancient promontory, and in the Sun, a Human Form appeard
J43.5; E191|
And thus the Voice Divine went forth upon the rocks of Albion
J43.6; E191|
I elected Albion for my glory; I gave to him the Nations,
J43.7; E191|
Of the whole Earth. he was the Angel of my Presence: and all
J43.8; E191|
The Sons of God were Albions Sons: and Jerusalem was my joy.
J43.9; E191|
The Reactor hath hid himself thro envy. I behold him.
J43.10; E191|
But you cannot behold him till he be reveald in his System
J43.11; E191|
Albions Reactor must have a Place prepard: Albion must Sleep
J43.12; E191|
The Sleep of Death, till the Man of Sin & Repentance be reveald.
J43.13; E191|
Hidden in Albions Forests he lurks: he admits of no Reply
J43.14; E191|
From Albion: but hath founded his Reaction into a Law
J43.15; E191|
Of Action, for Obedience to destroy the Contraries of Man[.]
J43.16; E191|
He hath compelld Albion to become a Punisher & hath possessd
J43.17; E191|
Himself of Albions Forests & Wilds! and Jerusalem is taken!
J43.18; E191|
The City of the Woods in the Forest of Ephratah is taken!
J43.19; E191|
London is a stone of her ruins; Oxford is the dust of her walls!
J43.20; E191|
Sussex & Kent are her scatterd garments: Ireland her holy place!
J43.21; E191|
And the murderd bodies of her little ones are Scotland and Wales
J43.22; E191|
The Cities of the Nations are the smoke of her consummation
J43.23; E191|
The Nations are her dust! ground by the chariot wheels
J43.24; E191|
Of her lordly conquerors, her palaces levelld with the dust
J43.25; E191|
I come that I may find a way for my banished ones to return
J43.26; E191|
Fear not O little Flock I come! Albion shall rise again.
J43.27; E191|
So saying, the mild Sun inclosd the Human Family.
J43.28; E191|
Forthwith from Albions darkning [r]ocks came two Immortal forms t288
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Saying We alone are escaped. O merciful Lord and Saviour,
J43.30; E191|
We flee from the interiors of Albions hills and mountains!
J43.31; E191|
From his Valleys Eastward: from Amalek Canaan & Moab:
J43.32; E191|
Beneath his vast ranges of hills surrounding Jerusalem.
J43.33; E191|
Albion walkd on the steps of fire before his Halls
J43.34; E191|
And Vala walkd with him in dreams of soft deluding slumber.
J43.35; E191|
He looked up & saw the Prince of Light with splendor faded
J43.36; E191|
Then Albion ascended mourning into the porches of his Palace
J43.37; E191|
Above him rose a Shadow from his wearied intellect:
J43.38; E191|
Of living gold, pure, perfect, holy: in white linen pure he hoverd
J43.39; E192|
A sweet entrancing self-delusion a watry vision of Albion
J43.40; E192|
Soft exulting in existence; all the Man absorbing!
J43.41; E192|
Albion fell upon his face prostrate before the watry Shadow
J43.42; E192|
Saying O Lord whence is this change! thou knowest I am nothing!
J43.43; E192|
And Vala trembled & coverd her face! & her locks were spread on
the pavement
J43.44; E192|
We heard astonishd at the Vision & our heart trembled within us:
J43.45; E192|
We heard the voice of slumberous Albion, and thus he spake,
J43.46; E192|
Idolatrous to his own Shadow words of eternity uttering:
J43.47; E192|
O I am nothing when I enter into judgment with thee!
J43.48; E192|
If thou withdraw thy breath I die & vanish into Hades
J43.49; E192|
If thou dost lay thine hand upon me behold I am silent:
J43.50; E192|
If thou withhold thine hand; I perish like a fallen leaf:
J43.51; E192|
O I am nothing: and to nothing must return again:
J43.52; E192|
If thou withdraw thy breath. Behold I am oblivion.
J43.53; E192|
He ceasd: the shadowy voice was silent: but the cloud hoverd over their
heads
J43.54; E192|
In golden wreathes, the sorrow of Man; & the balmy drops fell down.
J43.55; E192|
And lo! that son of Man that Shadowy Spirit of mild Albion:
J43.56; E192|
Luvah descended from the cloud; in terror Albion rose:
J43.57; E192|
Indignant rose the awful Man, & turnd his back on Vala.
J43.58; E192|
We heard the voice of Albion starting from his sleep:
J43.59; E192|
Whence is this voice crying Enion! that soundeth in my ears?
J43.60; E192|
O cruel pity! O dark deceit! can love seek for dominion?
J43.61; E192|
And Luvah strove to gain dominion over Albion
J43.62; E192|
They strove together above the Body where Vala was inclosd
J43.63; E192|
And the dark Body of Albion left prostrate upon the crystal pavement,
J43.64; E192|
Coverd with boils from head to foot: the terrible smitings of Luvah.
J43.65; E192|
Then frownd the fallen Man, and put forth Luvah from his presence
J43.66; E192|
Saying. Go and Die the Death of Man, for Vala the sweet wanderer.
J43.67; E192|
I will turn the volutions of your ears outward, and bend your nostrils
J43.68; E192|
Downward, and your fluxile eyes englob'd roll round in fear:
J43.69; E192|
Your withring lips and tongue shrink up into a narrow circle,
J43.70; E192|
Till into narrow forms you creep: go take your fiery way:
J43.71; E192|
And learn what tis to absorb the Man you Spirits of Pity & Love.
J43.72; E192|
They heard the voice and fled swift as the winters setting sun.
J43.73; E192|
And now the human blood foamd high, the Spirits Luvah & Vala,
J43.74; E192|
Went down the Human Heart where Paradise & its joys abounded,
J43.75; E192|
In jealous fears & fury & rage, & flames roll round their fervid
feet:
J43.76; E192|
And the vast form of Nature like a serpent playd before them
J43.77; E192|
And as they fled in folding fires & thunders of the deep:
J43.78; E193|
Vala shrunk in like the dark sea that leaves its slimy banks.
J43.79; E193|
And from her bosom Luvah fell far as the east and west.
J43.80; E193|
And the vast form of Nature like a serpent rolld between,
J43.81; E193|
Whether of Jerusalems or Valas ruins congenerated, we know not:
J43.82; E193|
All is confusion: all is tumult, & we alone are escaped.
J43.83; E193|
So spoke the fugitives; they joind the Divine Family, trembling
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And the Two that escaped; were the Emanation of Los & his
J44.2; E193|
Spectre: for whereever the Emanation goes, the Spectre
J44.3; E193|
Attends her as her Guard, & Los's Emanation is named
J44.4; E193|
Enitharmon, & his Spectre is named Urthona: they knew
J44.5; E193|
Not where to flee: they had been on a visit to Albions Children
J44.6; E193|
And they strove to weave a Shadow of the Emanation
J44.7; E193|
To hide themselves: weeping & lamenting for the Vegetation
J44.8; E193|
Of Albions Children; fleeing thro Albions vales in streams of gore
J44.9; E193|
Being not irritated by insult bearing insulting benevolences
J44.10; E193|
They percieved that corporeal friends are spiritual enemies
J44.11; E193|
They saw the Sexual Religion in its embryon Uncircumcision
J44.12; E193|
And the Divine hand was upon them bearing them thro darkness
J44.13; E193|
Back safe to their Humanity as doves to their windows:
J44.14; E193|
Therefore the Sons of Eden praise Urthonas Spectre in Songs
J44.15; E193|
Because he kept the Divine Vision in time of trouble.
J44.16; E193|
They wept & trembled: & Los put forth his hand & took them
in
J44.17; E193|
Into his Bosom: from which Albion shrunk in dismal pain;
J44.18; E193|
Rending the fibres of Brotherhood & in Feminine Allegories
J44.19; E193|
Inclosing Los: but the Divine Vision appeard with Los
J44.20; E193|
Following Albion into his Central Void among his Oaks.
J44.21; E193|
And Los prayed and said. O Divine Saviour arise
J44.22; E193|
Upon the Mountains of Albion as in ancient time. Behold!
J44.23; E193|
The Cities of Albion seek thy face, London groans in pain
J44.24; E193|
From Hill to Hill & the Thames laments along the Valleys
J44.25; E193|
The little Villages of Middlesex & Surrey hunger & thirst
J44.26; E193|
The Twenty-eight Cities of Albion stretch their hands to thee:
J44.27; E193|
Because of the Opressors of Albion in every City & Village:
J44.28; E193|
They mock at the Labourers limbs! they mock at his starvd Children.
J44.29; E193|
They buy his Daughters that they may have power to sell his Sons:
J44.30; E193|
They compell the Poor to live upon a crust of bread by soft mild arts:
J44.31; E193|
They reduce the Man to want: then give with pomp & ceremony.
J44.32; E193|
The praise of Jehovah is chaunted from lips of hunger & thirst!
J44.33; E193|
Humanity knows not of Sex: wherefore are Sexes in Beulah?
J44.34; E193|
In Beulah the Female lets down her beautiful Tabernacle;
J44.35; E193|
Which the Male enters magnificent between her Cherubim:
J44.36; E193|
And becomes One with her mingling condensing in Self-love
J44.37; E193|
The Rocky Law of Condemnation & double Generation, & Death.
J44.38; E194|
Albion hath enterd the Loins the place of the Last Judgment:
J44.39; E194|
And Luvah hath drawn the Curtains around Albion in Vala's bosom
J44.40; E194|
The Dead awake to Generation! Arise O Lord, & rend the Veil!
J44.41; E194|
So Los in lamentations followd Albion, Albion coverd,
J45.1; E194|
His western heaven with rocky clouds of death & despair.
J45.2; E194|
Fearing that Albion should turn his back against the Divine Vision
J45.3; E194|
Los took his globe of fire to search the interiors of Albions
J45.4; E194|
Bosom, in all the terrors of friendship, entering the caves
J45.5; E194|
Of despair & death, to search the tempters out, walking among
J45.6; E194|
Albions rocks & precipices! caves of solitude & dark despair,
J45.7; E194|
And saw every Minute Particular of Albion degraded & murderd
J45.8; E194|
But saw not by whom; they were hidden within in the minute particulars
J45.9; E194|
Of which they had possessd themselves; and there they take up
J45.10; E194|
The articulations of a mans soul, and laughing throw it down
J45.11; E194|
Into the frame, then knock it out upon the plank, & souls are bak'd
J45.12; E194|
In bricks to build the pyramids of Heber & Terah. But Los
J45.13; E194|
Searchd in vain: closd from the minutia he walkd, difficult.
J45.14; E194|
He came down from Highgate thro Hackney & Holloway towards London
J45.15; E194|
Till he came to old Stratford & thence to Stepney & the Isle
J45.16; E194|
Of Leuthas Dogs, thence thro the narrows of the Rivers side
J45.17; E194|
And saw every minute particular, the jewels of Albion, running down
J45.18; E194|
The kennels of the streets & lanes as if they were abhorrd.
J45.19; E194|
Every Universal Form, was become barren mountains of Moral
J45.20; E194|
Virtue: and every Minute Particular hardend into grains of sand:
J45.21; E194|
And all the tendernesses of the soul cast forth as filth & mire,
J45.22; E194|
Among the winding places of deep contemplation intricate
J45.23; E194|
To where the Tower of London frownd dreadful over Jerusalem:
J45.24; E194|
A building of Luvah builded in Jerusalems eastern gate to be
J45.25; E194|
His secluded Court: thence to Bethlehem where was builded
J45.26; E194|
Dens of despair in the house of bread: enquiring in vain
J45.27; E194|
Of stones and rocks he took his way, for human form was none:
J45.28; E194|
And thus he spoke, looking on Albions City with many tears
J45.29; E194|
What shall I do! what could I do, if I could find these Criminals
J45.30; E194|
I could not dare to take vengeance; for all things are so constructed
J45.31; E194|
And builded by the Divine hand, that the sinner shall always escape,
J45.32; E194|
And he who takes vengeance alone is the criminal of Providence;
J45.33; E194|
If I should dare to lay my finger on a grain of sand
J45.34; E194|
In way of vengeance; I punish the already punishd: O whom
J45.35; E194|
Should I pity if I pity not the sinner who is gone astray!
J45.36; E194|
O Albion, if thou takest vengeance; if thou revengest thy wrongs
J45.37; E194|
Thou art for ever lost! What can I do to hinder the Sons
J45.38; E194|
Of Albion from taking vengeance? or how shall I them perswade.
J45.39; E195|
So spoke Los, travelling thro darkness & horrid solitude:
J45.40; E195|
And he beheld Jerusalem in Westminster & Marybone,
J45.41; E195|
Among the ruins of the Temple: and Vala who is her Shadow,
J45.42; E195|
Jerusalems Shadow bent northward over the Island white.
J45.43; E195|
At length he sat on London Stone, & heard Jerusalems voice.
J45.44; E195|
Albion I cannot be thy Wife. thine own Minute Particulars,
J45.45; E195|
Belong to God alone. and all thy little ones are holy
J45.46; E195|
They are of Faith & not of Demonstration: wherefore is Vala
J45.47; E195|
Clothd in black mourning upon my rivers currents, Vala awake!
J45.48; E195|
I hear thy shuttles sing in the sky, and round my limbs
J45.49; E195|
I feel the iron threads of love & jealousy & despair.
J45.50; E195|
Vala reply'd. Albion is mine! Luvah gave me to Albion
J45.51; E195|
And now recieves reproach & hate. Was it not said of old
J45.52; E195|
Set your Son before a man & he shall take you & your sons
J45.53; E195|
For slaves: but set your Daughter before a man & She
J45.54; E195|
Shall make him & his sons & daughters your slaves for ever!
J45.55; E195|
And is this Faith? Behold the strife of Albion, & Luvah
J45.56; E195|
Is great in the east, their spears of blood rage in the eastern heaven
J45.57; E195|
Urizen is the champion of Albion, they will slay my Luvah:
J45.58; E195|
And thou O harlot daughter! daughter of despair art all
J45.59; E195|
This cause of these shakings of my towers on Euphrates.
J45.60; E195|
Here is the House of Albion, & here is thy secluded place
J45.61; E195|
And here we have found thy sins: & hence we turn thee forth,
J45.62; E195|
For all to avoid thee: to be astonishd at thee for thy sins:
J45.63; E195|
Because thou art the impurity & the harlot: & thy children!
J45.64; E195|
Children of whoredoms: born for Sacrifice: for the meat & drink
J45.65; E195|
Offering: to sustain the glorious combat & the battle & war
J45.66; E195|
That Man may be purified by the death of thy delusions.
J45.67; E195|
So saying she her dark threads cast over the trembling River:
J45.68; E195|
And over the valleys; from the hills of Hertfordshire to the hills
J45.69; E195|
Of Surrey across Middlesex & across Albions House
J45.70; E195|
Of Eternity! pale stood Albion at his eastern gate,
J46.1; E195|
Leaning against the pillars, & his disease rose from his skirts
J46.2; E195|
Upon the Precipice he stood! ready to fall into Non-Entity.
J46.3; E195|
Los was all astonishment & terror: he trembled sitting on the Stone
J46.4; E195|
Of London: but the interiors of Albions fibres & nerves were hidden
J46.5; E195|
From Los; astonishd be beheld only the petrified surfaces:
J46.6; E195|
And saw his Furnaces in ruins, for Los is the Demon of the Furnaces;
J46.7; E195|
He saw also the Four Points of Albion reversd inwards
J46.8; E195|
He siezd his Hammer & Tongs, his iron Poker & his Bellows,
J46.9; E195|
Upon the valleys of Middlesex, Shouting loud for aid Divine.
J46.10; E195|
In stern defiance came from Albions bosom Hand, Hyle, Koban,
J46.11; E195|
Gwantok, Peachy, Brertun, Slaid, Huttn, Skofeld, Kock, Kotope
J46.12; E196|
Bowen: Albions Sons: they bore him a golden couch into the porch
J46.13; E196|
And on the Couch reposd his limbs, trembling from the bloody field.
J46.14; E196|
Rearing their Druid Patriarchal rocky Temples around his limbs.
J46.15; E196|
(All things begin & end, in Albions Ancient Druid Rocky Shore.)
J47.1; E196|
[When Albion utterd his last words Hope is banishd from me]
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From Camberwell to Highgate where the mighty Thames shudders along,
J47.3; E196|
Where Los's Furnaces stand, where Jerusalem & Vala howl:
J47.4; E196|
Luvah tore forth from Albions Loins, in fibrous veins, in rivers
J47.5; E196|
Of blood over Europe: a Vegetating Root in grinding pain.
J47.6; E196|
Animating the Dragon Temples, soon to become that Holy Fiend
J47.7; E196|
The Wicker Man of Scandinavia in which cruelly consumed
J47.8; E196|
The Captives reard to heaven howl in flames among the stars
J47.9; E196|
Loud the cries of War on the Rhine & Danube, with Albions Sons,
J47.10; E196|
Away from Beulahs hills & vales break forth the Souls of the Dead,
J47.11; E196|
With cymbal, trumpet, clarion; & the scythed chariots of Britain.
J47.12; E196|
And the Veil of Vala, is composed of the Spectres of the Dead
J47.13; E196|
Hark! the mingling cries of Luvah with the Sons of Albion
J47.14; E196|
Hark! & Record the terrible wonder! that the Punisher
J47.15; E196|
Mingles with his Victims Spectre, enslaved and tormented
J47.16; E196|
To him whom he has murderd, bound in vengeance & enmity
J47.17; E196|
Shudder not, but Write, & the hand of God will assist you!
J47.18; E196|
Therefore I write Albions last words. Hope is banish'd from me.
J48.1; E196|
These were his last words, and the merciful Saviour in his arms
J48.2; E196|
Reciev'd him, in the arms of tender mercy and repos'd
J48.3; E196|
The pale limbs of his Eternal Individuality
J48.4; E196|
Upon the Rock of Ages. Then, surrounded with a Cloud:
J48.5; E196|
In silence the Divine Lord builded with immortal labour,
J48.6; E196|
Of gold & jewels a sublime Ornament, a Couch of repose,
J48.7; E196|
With Sixteen pillars: canopied with emblems & written verse.
J48.8; E196|
Spiritual Verse, order'd & measur'd, from whence, time shall reveal.
J48.9; E196|
The Five books of the Decalogue, the books of Joshua & Judges,
J48.10; E196|
Samuel, a double book & Kings, a double book, the Psalms & Prophets
J48.11; E196|
The Four-fold Gospel, and the Revelations everlasting
J48.12; E196|
Eternity groan'd & was troubled, at the image of Eternal Death!
J48.13; E196|
Beneath the bottoms of the Graves, which is Earths central joint,
J48.14; E196|
There is a place where Contrarieties are equally true:
J48.15; E196|
(To protect from the Giant blows in the sports of intellect,
J48.16; E196|
Thunder in the midst of kindness, & love that kills its beloved:
J48.17; E196|
Because Death is for a period, and they renew tenfold.)
J48.18; E196|
From this sweet Place Maternal Love awoke Jerusalem
J48.19; E197|
With pangs she forsook Beulah's pleasant lovely shadowy Universe
J48.20; E197|
Where no dispute can come; created for those who Sleep.
J48.21; E197|
Weeping was in all Beulah, and all the Daughters of Beulah
J48.22; E197|
Wept for their Sister the Daughter of Albion, Jerusalem:
J48.23; E197|
When out of Beulah the Emanation of the Sleeper descended
J48.24; E197|
With solemn mourning out of Beulahs moony shades and hills:
J48.25; E197|
Within the Human Heart, whose Gates closed with solemn sound.
J48.26; E197|
And this the manner of the terrible Separation
J48.27; E197|
The Emanations of the grievously afflicted Friends of Albion
J48.28; E197|
Concenter in one Female form an Aged pensive Woman.
J48.29; E197|
Astonish'd! lovely! embracing the sublime shade: the Daughters of Beulah
J48.30; E197|
Beheld her with wonder! With awful hands she took
J48.31; E197|
A Moment of Time, drawing it out with many tears & afflictions
J48.32; E197|
And many sorrows: oblique across the Atlantic Vale
J48.33; E197|
Which is the Vale of Rephaim dreadful from East to West,
J48.34; E197|
Where the Human Harvest waves abundant in the beams of Eden
J48.35; E197|
Into a Rainbow of jewels and gold, a mild Reflection from
J48.36; E197|
Albions dread Tomb. Eight thousand and five hundred years
J48.37; E197|
In its extension. Every two hundred years has a door to Eden
J48.38; E197|
She also took an Atom of Space, with dire pain opening it a Center
J48.39; E197|
Into Beulah: trembling the Daughters of Beulah dried
J48.40; E197|
Her tears. she ardent embrac'd her sorrows. occupied in labours
J48.41; E197|
Of sublime mercy in Rephaims Vale. Perusing Albions Tomb
J48.42; E197|
She sat: she walk'd among the ornaments solemn mourning.
J48.43; E197|
The Daughters attended her shudderings, wiping the death sweat
J48.44; E197|
Los also saw her in his seventh Furnace, he also terrified
J48.45; E197|
Saw the finger of God go forth upon his seventh Furnace:
J48.46; E197|
Away from the Starry Wheels to prepare Jerusalem a place.
J48.47; E197|
When with a dreadful groan the Emanation mild of Albion.
J48.48; E197|
Burst from his bosom in the Tomb like a pale snowy cloud,
J48.49; E197|
Female and lovely, struggling to put off the Human form
J48.50; E197|
Writhing in pain. The Daughters of Beulah in kind arms reciev'd
J48.51; E197|
Jerusalem: weeping over her among the Spaces of Erin,
J48.52; E197|
In the Ends of Beulah, where the Dead wail night & day.
J48.53; E197|
And thus Erin spoke to the Daughters of Beulah, in soft tears
J48.54; E197|
Albion the Vortex of the Dead!Albion the Generous!
J48.55; E197|
Albion the mildest son of Heaven! The Place of Holy Sacrifice!
J48.56; E197|
Where Friends Die for each other: will become the Place,
J48.57; E197|
Of Murder, & Unforgiving, Never-awaking Sacrifice of Enemies
J48.58; E197|
The Children must be sacrific'd! (a horror never known
J48.59; E197|
Till now in Beulah.) unless a Refuge can be found
J48.60; E197|
To hide them from the wrath of Albions Law that freezes sore
J48.61; E197|
Upon his Sons & Daughters, self-exiled from his bosom
J48.62; E198|
Draw ye Jerusalem away from Albions Mountains
J48.63; E198|
To give a Place for Redemption, let Sihon and Og
J48.64; E198|
Remove Eastward to Bashan and Gilead, and leave
J49.1; E198|
The secret coverts of Albion & the hidden places of America
J49.2; E198|
Jerusalem Jerusalem! why wilt thou turn away
J49.3; E198|
Come ye O Daughters of Beulah, lament for Og & Sihon
J49.4; E198|
Upon the Lakes of Ireland from Rathlin to Baltimore:
J49.5; E198|
Stand ye upon the Dargle from Wicklow to Drogheda
J49.6; E198|
Come & mourn over Albion the White Cliff of the Atlantic
J49.7; E198|
The Mountain of Giants: all the Giants of Albion are become
J49.8; E198|
Weak! witherd! darkend! & Jerusalem is cast forth from Albion.
J49.9; E198|
They deny that they ever knew Jerusalem, or ever dwelt in Shiloh
J49.10; E198|
The Gigantic roots & twigs of the vegetating Sons of Albion
J49.11; E198|
Filld with the little-ones are consumed in the Fires of their Altars
J49.12; E198|
The vegetating Cities are burned & consumed from the Earth:
J49.13; E198|
And the Bodies in which all Animals & Vegetations, the Earth &
Heaven
J49.14; E198|
Were containd in the All Glorious Imagination are witherd & darkend;
J49.15; E198|
The golden Gate of Havilah, and all the Garden of God,
J49.16; E198|
Was caught up with the Sun in one day of fury and war:
J49.17; E198|
The Lungs, the Heart, the Liver, shrunk away far distant from Man
J49.18; E198|
And left a little slimy substance floating upon the tides.
J49.19; E198|
In one night the Atlantic Continent was caught up with the Moon,
J49.20; E198|
And became an Opake Globe far distant clad with moony beams.
J49.21; E198|
The Visions of Eternity, by reason of narrowed perceptions,
J49.22; E198|
Are become weak Visions of Time & Space, fix'd into furrows of death;
J49.23; E198|
Till deep dissimulation is the only defence an honest man has left
J49.24; E198|
O Polypus of Death O Spectre over Europe and Asia
J49.25; E198|
Withering the Human Form by Laws of Sacrifice for Sin
J49.26; E198|
By Laws of Chastity & Abhorrence I am witherd up.
J49.27; E198|
Striving to Create a Heaven in which all shall be pure & holy
J49.28; E198|
In their Own Selfhoods, in Natural Selfish Chastity to banish Pity
J49.29; E198|
And dear Mutual Forgiveness; & to become One Great Satan
J49.30; E198|
Inslavd to the most powerful Selfhood: to murder the Divine Humanity
J49.31; E198|
In whose sight all are as the dust & who chargeth his Angels with folly!
J49.32; E198|
Ah! weak & wide astray! Ah shut in narrow doleful form!
J49.33; E198|
Creeping in reptile flesh upon the bosom of the ground!
J49.34; E198|
The Eye of Man, a little narrow orb, closd up & dark,
J49.35; E198|
Scarcely beholding the Great Light; conversing with the [Void]:
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J49.36; E198|
The Ear, a little shell, in small volutions shutting out
J49.37; E198|
True Harmonies, & comprehending great, as very small:
J49.38; E198|
The Nostrils, bent down to the earth & clos'd with senseless flesh.
J49.39; E198|
That odours cannot them expand, nor joy on them exult:
J49.40; E198|
The Tongue, a little moisture fills, a little food it cloys,
J49.41; E198|
A little sound it utters, & its cries are faintly heard.
J49.42; E199|
Therefore they are removed: therefore they have taken root
J49.43; E199|
In Egypt & Philistea: in Moab & Edom & Aram:
J49.44; E199|
In the Erythrean Sea their Uncircu[m]cision in Heart & Loins
J49.45; E199|
Be lost for ever & ever. then they shall arise from Self,
J49.46; E199|
By Self Annihilation into Jerusalems Courts & into Shiloh
J49.47; E199|
Shiloh the Masculine Emanation among the Flowers of Beulah
J49.48; E199|
Lo Shiloh dwells over France, as Jerusalem dwells over Albion
J49.49; E199|
Build & prepare a Wall & Curtain for Americas shore!
J49.50; E199|
Rush on: Rush on! Rush on! ye vegetating Sons of Albion
J49.51; E199|
The Sun shall go before you in Day: the Moon shall go
J49.52; E199|
Before you in Night. Come on! Come on! Come on! The Lord
J49.53; E199|
Jehovah is before, behind, above, beneath, around
J49.54; E199|
He has builded the arches of Albions Tomb binding the Stars
J49.55; E199|
In merciful Order, bending the Laws of Cruelty to Peace.
J49.56; E199|
He hath placed Og & Anak, the Giants of Albion for their Guards:
J49.57; E199|
Building the Body of Moses in the Valley of Peor: the Body
J49.58; E199|
Of Divine Analogy; and Og & Sihon in the tears of Balaam
J49.59; E199|
The Son of Beor, have given their power to Joshua & Caleb.
J49.60; E199|
Remove from Albion, far remove these terrible surfaces.
J49.61; E199|
They are beginning to form Heavens & Hells in immense
J49.62; E199|
Circles: the Hells for food to the Heavens: food of torment,
J49.63; E199|
Food of despair: they drink the condemnd Soul & rejoice
J49.64; E199|
In cruel holiness, in their Heavens of Chastity & Uncircumcision
J49.65; E199|
Yet they are blameless & Iniquity must be imputed only
J49.66; E199|
To the State they are enterd into that they may be deliverd:
J49.67; E199|
Satan is the State of Death, & not a Human existence:
J49.68; E199|
But Luvah is named Satan, because he has enterd that State.
J49.69; E199|
A World where Man is by Nature the enemy of Man
J49.70; E199|
Because the Evil is Created into a State. that Men
J49.71; E199|
May be deliverd time after time evermore. Amen.
J49.72; E199|
Learn therefore O Sisters to distinguish the Eternal Human
J49.73; E199|
That walks about among the stones of fire in bliss & woe
J49.74; E199|
Alternate! from those States or Worlds in which the Spirit travels:
J49.75; E199|
This is the only means to Forgiveness of Enemies[.]
J49.76; E199|
Therefore remove from Albion these terrible Surfaces
J49.77; E199|
And let wild seas & rocks close up Jerusalem away from
J50.1; E199|
The Atlantic Mountains where Giants dwelt in Intellect;
J50.2; E199|
Now given to stony Druids, and Allegoric Generation
J50.3; E199|
To the Twelve Gods of Asia, the Spectres of those who Sleep:
J50.4; E199|
Sway'd by a Providence oppos'd to the Divine Lord Jesus:
J50.5; E199|
A murderous Providence! A Creation that groans, living on Death.
J50.6; E199|
Where Fish & Bird & Beast & Man & Tree & Metal &
Stone
J50.7; E199|
Live by Devouring, going into Eternal Death continually:
J50.8; E199|
Albion is now possess'd by the War of Blood! the Sacrifice
J50.9; E199|
Of envy Albion is become, and his Emanation cast out:
J50.10; E200|
Come Lord Jesus, Lamb of God descend! for if; O Lord!
J50.11; E200|
If thou hadst been here, our brother Albion had not died.
J50.12; E200|
Arise sisters! Go ye & meet the Lord, while I remain--
J50.13; E200|
Behold the foggy mornings of the Dead on Albions cliffs!
J50.14; E200|
Ye know that if the Emanation remains in them:
J50.15; E200|
She will become an Eternal Death, an Avenger of Sin
J50.16; E200|
A Self-righteousness: the proud Virgin-Harlot! Mother of War!
J50.17; E200|
And we also & all Beulah, consume beneath Albions curse.
J50.18; E200|
So Erin spoke to the Daughters of Beulah. Shuddering
J50.19; E200|
With their wings they sat in the Furnace, in a night
J50.20; E200|
Of stars, for all the Sons of Albion appeard distant stars,
J50.21; E200|
Ascending and descending into Albions sea of death.
J50.22; E200|
And Erins lovely Bow enclos'd the Wheels of Albions Sons.
J50.23; E200|
Expanding on wing, the Daughters of Beulah replied in sweet response
J50.24; E200|
Come O thou Lamb of God and take away the remembrance of Sin
J50.25; E200|
To Sin & to hide the Sin in sweet deceit. is lovely!!
J50.26; E200|
To Sin in the open face of day is cruel & pitiless! But
J50.27; E200|
To record the Sin for a reproach: to let the Sun go down
J50.28; E200|
In a remembrance of the Sin: is a Woe & a Horror!
J50.29; E200|
A brooder of an Evil Day, and a Sun rising in blood
J50.30; E200|
Come then O Lamb of God and take away the remembrance of Sin
J50.31; E200|
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