# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 13

Written and etched 1804-1820. Source: Blake: The Complete Poetry & Prose (David. V. Erdman) In the internet: www.blakearchive.org
[ PLATE 13 ]
* And that toward Eden, four, form'd of gold, silver, brass, & iron.
* The South, a golden Gate, has four Lions terrible, living!
* That toward Generation, four, of iron carv'd wondrous:
* That toward Ulro, four, clay bak'd, laborious workmanship
* 5That toward Eden, four; immortal gold, silver, brass & iron.
* The Western Gate fourfold, is closd: having four Cherubim
* Its guards, living, the work of elemental hands, laborious task!
* Like Men, hermaphroditic, each winged with eight wings
* That towards Generation, iron; that toward Beulah, stone;
* 10That toward Ulro, clay: that toward Eden, metals.
* But all clos'd up till the last day, when the graves shall yield their dead
* The Eastern Gate, fourfold: terrible & deadly its ornaments:
* Taking their forms from the Wheels of Albions sons; as cogs
* Are formd in a wheel, to fit the cogs of the adverse wheel.
* 15That toward Eden, eternal ice, frozen in seven folds
* Of forms of death: and that toward Beulah, stone:
* The seven diseases of the earth are carved terrible.
* And that toward Ulro, forms of war: seven enormities:
* And that toward Generation, seven generative forms.
* 20And every part of the City is fourfold; & every inhabitant, fourfold.
* And every pot & vessel & garment & utensil of the houses,
* And every house, fourfold; but the third Gate in every one
* Is closd as with a threefold curtain of ivory & fine linen & ermine.
* And Luban stands in middle of the City. a moat of fire,
* 25Surrounds Luban, Los's Palace & the golden Looms of Cathedron.
* And sixty-four thousand Genii, guard the Eastern Gate:
* And sixty-four thousand Gnomes, guard the Northern Gate:
* And sixty-four thousand Nymphs, guard the Western Gate:
* And sixty-four thousand Fairies, guard the Southern Gate:
* 30Around Golgonooza lies the land of death eternal; a Land
* Of pain and misery and despair and ever brooding melancholy:
* In all the Twenty-seven Heavens, numberd from Adam to Luther;
* From the blue Mundane Shell, reaching to the Vegetative Earth.
* The Vegetative Universe, opens like a flower from the Earths center:
* 35In which is Eternity. It expands in Stars to the Mundane Shell
* And there it meets Eternity again, both within and without,
* And the abstract Voids between the Stars are the Satanic Wheels.
* There is the Cave; the Rock; the Tree; the Lake of Udan Adan;
* The Forest, and the Marsh, and the Pits of bitumen deadly:
* 40The Rocks of solid fire: the Ice valleys: the Plains
* Of burning sand: the rivers, cataract & Lakes of Fire:
* The Islands of the fiery Lakes: the Trees of Malice: Revenge:
* And black Anxiety; and the Cities of the Salamandrine men:
* (But whatever is visible to the Generated Man,
* 45Is a Creation of mercy & love, from the Satanic Void.)
* The land of darkness flamed but no light, & no repose:
* The land of snows of trembling, & of iron hail incessant:
* The land of earthquakes: and the land of woven labyrinths:
* The land of snares & traps & wheels & pit-falls & dire mills:
* 50The Voids, the Solids, & the land of clouds & regions of waters:
* With their inhabitants: in the Twenty-seven Heavens beneath Beulah:
* Self-righteousnesses conglomerating against the Divine Vision:
* A Concave Earth wondrous, Chasmal, Abyssal, Incoherent!
* Forming the Mundane Shell: above; beneath: on all sides surrounding
* 55Golgonooza: Los walks round the walls night and day.
* He views the City of Golgonooza, & its smaller Cities:
* The Looms & Mills & Prisons & Work-houses of Og & Anak:
* The Amalekite: the Canaanite: the Moabite: the Egyptian:
* And all that has existed in the space of six thousand years:
* 60Permanent, & not lost not lost nor vanishd, & every little act,
* Word, work, & wish, that has existed, all remaining still
* In those Churches ever consuming & ever building by the Spectres
* Of all the inhabitants of Earth wailing to be Created:
* Shadowy to those who dwell not in them, meer possibilities:
* 65But to those who enter into them they seem the only substances
* For every thing exists & not one sigh nor smile nor tear,