# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Chapter IV

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## Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. Chapter IV

* PLATE 78
* Jerusalem. C 4
* The Spectres of Albions Twelve Sons revolve mightily
* Over the Tomb & over the Body: ravning to devour
* The Sleeping Humanity. Los with his mace of iron
* Walks round: loud his threats, loud his blows fall
* 5 On the rocky Spectres, as the Potter breaks the potsherds;
* Dashing in pieces Self-righteousnesses: driving them from Albions
* Cliffs: dividing them into Male & Female forms in his Furnaces
* And on his Anvils: lest they destroy the Feminine Affections
* They are broken. Loud howl the Spectres in his iron Furnace
* 10 While Los laments at his dire labours, viewing Jerusalem,
* Sitting before his Furnaces clothed in sackcloth of hair;
* Albions Twelve Sons surround the Forty-two Gates of Erin,
* In terrible armour, raging against the Lamb & against Jerusalem,
* Surrounding them with armies to destroy the Lamb of God.
* 15 They took their Mother Vala, and they crown'd her with gold:
* They namd her Rahab, & gave her power over the Earth
* The Concave Earth round Golgonooza in Entuthon Benython,
* Even to the stars exalting her Throne, to build beyond the Throne
* Of God and the Lamb, to destroy the Lamb & usurp the Throne of God
* 20 Drawing their Ulro Voidness round the Four-fold Humanity
* Naked Jerusalem lay before the Gates upon Mount Zion
* The Hill of Giants, all her foundations levelld with the dust!
* Her Twelve Gates thrown down: her children carried into captivity
* Herself in chains: this from within was seen in a dismal night
* 25 Outside, unknown before in Beulah, & the twelve gates were fill'd
* With blood; from Japan eastward to the Giants causway, west
* In Erins Continent: and Jerusalem wept upon Euphrates banks
* Disorganizd; an evanescent shade, scarce seen or heard among
* Her childrens Druid Temples dropping with blood wanderd weeping!
* 30 And thus her voice went forth in the darkness of Philisthea.
* My brother & my father are no morel God hath forsaken me
* The arrows of the Almighty pour upon me & my children
* I have sinned and am an outcast from the Divine Presence!
* PLATE 79
* My tents are fall'n! My Pillars are in ruins! my children dashd
* Upon Egypts iron floors, & the marble pavements of Assyria;
* I melt my soul in reasonings among the towers of Heshbon;
* Mount Zion is become a cruel rock & no more dew
* 5 Nor rain: no more the spring of the rock appears: but cold
* Hard & obdurate are the furrows of the mountain of wine & oil:
* The mountain of blessing is itself a curse & an astonishment:
* The hills of Judea are fallen with me into the deepest hell
* Away from the Nations of the Earth, & from the Cities of the Nations;
* 10 I walk to Ephraim. I seek for Shiloh: I walk like a lost sheep
* Among precipices of despair: in Goshen I seek for light
* In vain: and in Gilead for a physician and a comforter.
* Goshen hath followd Philistea: Gilead hath joind with Og!
* They are become narrow places in a little and dark land:
* 15 How distant far from Albion! his hills & his valleys no more
* Recieve the feet of Jerusalem: they have cast me quite away:
* And Albion is himself shrunk to a narrow rock in the midst of the sea!
* The plains of Sussex & Surrey, their hills of flocks & herds
* No more seek to Jerusalem nor to the sound of my Holy-ones.
* 20 The Fifty-two Counties of England are hardend against me
* As if I was not their Mother, they despise me & cast me out
* London coverd the whole Earth. England encompassd the Nations:
* And all the Nations of the Earth were seen in the Cities of Albion:
* My pillars reachd from sea to sea: London beheld me come
* 25 From my east & from my west; he blessed me and gave
* His children to my breasts, his sons & daughters to my knees
* His aged parents sought me out in every city & village:
* They discernd my countenance with joy! they shewd me to their sons
* Saying Lo Jerusalem is here! she sitteth in our secret chambers
* 30 Levi and Judah & Issachar: Ephra[i]m, Manesseh, Gad and Dan
* Are seen in our hills & valleys: they keep our flocks & herds:
* They watch them in the night: and the Lamb of God appears among us.
* The river Severn stayd his course at my command:
* Thames poured his waters into my basons and baths:
* 35 Medway mingled with Kishon: Thames recievd the heavenly Jordan
* Albion gave me to the whole Earth to walk up & down; to pour
* Joy upon every mountain; to teach songs to the shepherd & plowman
* I taught the ships of the sea to sing the songs of Zion.
* Italy saw me, in sublime astonishment: France was wholly mine:
* 40 As my garden & as my secret bath; Spain was my heavenly couch:
* I slept in his golden hills: the Lamb of God met me there.
* There we walked as in our secret chamber among our little ones
* They looked upon our loves with joy: they beheld our secret joys:
* With holy raptures of adoration rapd sublime in the Visions of God:
* 45 Germany; Poland & the North wooed my footsteps they found
* My gates in all their mountains & my curtains in all their vales
* The furniture of their houses was the furniture of my chamber
* Turkey & Grecia saw my instr[u]ments of music, they arose
* They siezd the harp: the flute: the mellow horn of Jerusalems joy
* 50 They sounded thanksgivings in my courts: Egypt & Lybia heard
* The swarthy sons of Ethiopia stood round the Lamb of God
* Enquiring for Jerusalem: he led them up my steps to my altar:
* And thou America! I once beheld thee but now behold no more
* Thy golden mountains where my Cherubim & Seraphim rejoicd
* 55 Together among my little-ones. But now, my Altars run with blood!
* My fires are corrupt! my incense is a cloudy pestilence
* Of seven diseases! Once a continual cloud of salvation. rose
* From all my myriads; once the Four-fold World rejoicd among
* The pillars of Jerusalem, between my winged Cherubim:
* 60 But now I am closd out from them in the narrow passages
* Of the valleys of destruction, into a dark land of pitch & bitumen.
* From Albions Tomb afar and from the four-fold wonders of God
* Shrunk to a narrow doleful form in the dark land of Cabul;
* There is Reuben & Gad & Joseph & Judah & Levi, closd up
* 65 In narrow vales: I walk & count the bones of my beloveds
* Along the Valley of Destruction, among these Druid Temples
* Which overspread all the Earth in patriarchal pomp & cruel pride
* Tell me O Vala thy purposes; tell me wherefore thy shuttles
* Drop with the gore of the slain; why Euphrates is red with blood
* 70 Wherefore in dreadful majesty & beauty outside appears
* Thy Masculine from thy Feminine hardening against the heavens
* To devour the Human! Why dost thou weep upon the wind among
* These cruel Druid Temples: O Vala! Humanity is far above
* Sexual organization; & the Visions of the Night of Beulah
* 75 Where Sexes wander in dreams of bliss among the Emanations
* Where the Masculine & Feminine are nurs'd into Youth & Maiden
* By the tears & smiles of Beulahs Daughters till the time of Sleep is past.
* Wherefore then do you realize these nets of beauty & delusion
* In open day to draw the souls of the Dead into the light.
* 80 Till Albion is shut out from every Nation under Heaven.
* PLATE 80
* Encompassd by the frozen Net and by the rooted Tree
* I walk weeping in pangs of a Mothers torment for her Children:
* I walk in affliction: I am a worm, and no living soul!
* A worm going to eternal torment! raisd up in a night
* 5 To an eternal night of pain, lost! lost! lost! for ever!
* Beside her Vala howld upon the winds in pride of beauty
* Lamenting among the timbrels of the Warriors: among the Captives
* In cruel holiness, and her lamenting songs were from Arnon
* And Jordan to Euphrates. Jerusalem followd trembling
* 10 Her children in captivity. listening to Valas lamentation
* In the thick cloud & darkness. & the voice went forth from
* The cloud. O rent in sunder from Jerusalem the Harlot daughter!
* In an eternal condemnation in fierce burning flames
* Of torment unendurable: and if once a Delusion be found
* 15 Woman must perish & the Heavens of Heavens remain no more
* My Father gave to me command to murder Albion
* In unreviving Death; my Love, my Luvah orderd me in night
* To murder Albion the King of Men. he fought in battles fierce
* He conquerd Luvah my beloved: he took me and my Father
* 20 He slew them: I revived them to life in my warm bosom
* He saw them issue from my bosom, dark in Jealousy
* He burnd before me: Luvah framd the Knife & Luvah gave
* The Knife into his daughters hand! such thing was never known
* Before in Albions land, that one should die a death never to be reviv'd!
* 25 For in our battles we the Slain men view with pity and love:
* We soon revive them in the secret of our tabernacles
* But I Vala, Luvahs daughter, keep his body embalmd in moral laws
* With spices of sweet odours of lovely jealous stupefaction:
* Within my bosom, lest he arise to life & slay my Luvah
* 30 Pity me then O Lamb of God! O Jesus pity me!
* Come into Luvahs Tents, and seek not to revive the Dead!
* So sang she: and the Spindle turnd furious as she sang:
* The Children of Jerusalem the Souls of those who sleep
* Were caught into the flax of her Distaff, & in her Cloud
* 35 To weave Jerusalem a body according to her will
* A Dragon form on Zion Hills most ancient promontory
* The Spindle turnd in blood & fire: loud sound the trumpets
* Of war: the cymbals play loud before the Captains
* With Cambel & Gwendolen in dance and solemn song
* 40 The Cloud of Rahab vibrating with the Daughters of Albion
* Los saw terrified, melted with pity & divided in wrath
* He sent them over the narrow seas in pity and love
* Among the Four Forests of Albion which overspread all the Earth
* They go forth & return swift as a flash of lightning.
* 45 Among the tribes of warriors: among the Stones of power!
* Against Jerusalem they rage thro all the Nations of Europe
* Thro Italy & Grecia, to Lebanon & Persia & India.
* The Serpent Temples thro the Earth, from the wide Plain of Salisbury
* Resound with cries of Victims, shouts & songs & dying groans
* 50 And flames of dusky fire, to Amalek, Canaan and Moab[.]
* And Rahab like a dismal and indefinite hovering Cloud
* Refusd to take a definite form. she hoverd over all the Earth
* Calling the definite, sin: defacing every definite form;
* Invisible, or Visible, stretch'd out in length or spread in breadth:
* 55 Over the Temples drinking groans of victims weeping in pity,
* And joying in the pity, howling over Jerusalems walls.
* Hand slept on Skiddaws top: drawn by the love of beautiful
* Cambel: his bright beaming Counterpart, divided from him
* And her delusive light beamd fierce above the Mountain,
* 60 Soft: invisible: drinking his sighs in sweet intoxication:
* Drawing out fibre by fibre: returning to Albions Tree
* At night: and in the morning to Skiddaw; she sent him over
* Mountainous Wales into the Loom of Cathedron fibre by fibre:
* He ran in tender nerves across Europe to Jerusalems Shade,
* 65 To weave Jerusalem a Body repugnant to the Lamb.
* Hyle on East Moor in rocky Derbyshire, rav'd to the Moon
* For Gwendolen: she took up in bitter tears his anguishd heart,
* That apparent to all in Eternity, glows like the Sun in the breast:
* She hid it in his ribs & back: she hid his tongue with teeth
* 70 In terrible convulsions pitying & gratified drunk with pity
* Glowing with loveliness before him, becoming apparent
* According to his changes: she roll'd his kidneys round
* Into two irregular forms: and looking on Albions dread Tree,
* She wove two vessels of seed, beautiful as Skiddaws snow;
* 75 Giving them bends of self interest & selfish natural virtue:
* She hid them in his loins; raving he ran among the rocks,
* Compelld into a shape of Moral Virtue against the Lamb.
* The invisible lovely one giving him a form according to
* His Law a form against the Lamb of God opposd to Mercy
* 80 And playing in the thunderous Loom in sweet intoxication
* Filling cups of silver & crystal with shrieks & cries, with groans
* And dolorous sobs: the wine of lovers in the Wine-press of Luvah
* O sister Cambel said Gwendolen, as their long beaming light
* Mingled above the Mountain[:] what shall we do to keep
* 85 These awful forms in our soft bands: distracted with trembling
* PLATE 81
* I have mockd those who refused cruelty & I have admired
* The cruel Warrior. I have refused to give love to Merlin the piteous.
* He brings to me the Images of his Love & I reject in chastity
* And turn them out into the streets for Harlots to be food
* 5 To the stern Warrior. I am become perfect in beauty over my Warrior
* For Men are caught by Love: Woman is caught by Pride
* That Love may only be obtaind in the passages of Death.
* illustration from Jerusalem, plate 81
* In Heaven the only Art of Living Is Forgetting & Forgiving Especially to the Female But if you on Earth Forgive You shall not find where to Live
* Let us look! let us examine! is the Cruel become an Infant
* Or is he still a cruel Warrior? look Sisters, look! O piteous
* 10 I have destroyd Wandring Reuben who strove to bind my Will
* I have stripd off Josephs beautiful integument for my Beloved,
* The Cruel-one of Albion: to clothe him in gems of my Zone
* I have Named him Jehovah of Hosts. Humanity is become
* A weeping Infant in ruind lovely Jerusalems folding Cloud:
* 15 In Heaven Love begets Love! but Fear is the Parent of Earthly Love!
* And he who will not bend to Love must be subdud by Fear,
* PLATE 82
* I have heard Jerusalems groans; from Valas cries & lamentations
* I gather our eternal fate: Outcasts from life and love:
* Unless we find a way to bind these awful Forms to our
* Embrace we shall perish annihilate, discoverd our Delusions.
* 5 Look I have wrought without delusion: Look! I have wept!
* And given soft milk mingled together with the spirits of flocks
* Of lambs and doves, mingled together in cups and dishes
* Of painted clay; the mighty Hyle is become a weeping infant;
* Soon shall the Spectres of the Dead follow my weaving threads.
* 10 The Twelve Daughters of Albion attentive listen in secret shades
* On Cambridge and Oxford beaming soft uniting with Rahabs cloud
* While Gwendolen spoke to Cambel turning soft the spinning reel:
* Or throwing the wingd shuttle; or drawing the cords with softest songs
* The golden cords of the Looms animate beneath their touches soft,
* 15 Along the Island white, among the Druid Temples, while Gwendolen
* Spoke to the Daughters of Albion standing on Skiddaws top.
* So saying she took a Falshood & hid it in her left hand:
* To entice her Sisters away to Babylon on Euphrates.
* And thus she closed her left hand and utterd her Falshood:
* 20 Forgetting that Falshood is prophetic, she hid her hand behind her,
* Upon her back behind her loins & thus utterd her Deceit.
* I heard Enitharmon say to Los: Let the Daughters of Albion
* Be scatterd abroad and let the name of Albion be forgotten:
* Divide them into three; name them Amalek Canaan & Moab:
* 25 Let Albion remain a desolation without an inhabitant:
* And let the Looms of Enitharmon & the Furnaces of Los
* Create Jerusalem, & Babylon & Egypt & Moab & Amalek,
* And Helle & Hesperia & Hindostan & China & Japan.
* But hide America, for a Curse an Altar of Victims & a Holy Place.
* 30 See Sisters Canaan is pleasant, Egypt is as the Garden of Eden:
* Babylon is our chief desire, Moab our bath in summer:
* Let us lead the stems of this Tree let us plant it before Jerusalem
* To judge the Friend of Sinners to death without the Veil:
* To cut her off from America, to close up her secret Ark:
* 35 And the fury of Man exhaust in War! Woman permanent remain
* See how the fires of our loins point eastward to Babylon
* Look. Hyle is become an infant Love: look! behold! see him lie!
* Upon my bosom. look! here is the lovely wayward form
* That gave me sweet delight by his torments beneath my Veil;
* 40 By the fruit of Albions Tree I have fed him with sweet milk
* By contentions of the mighty for Sacrifice of Captives;
* Humanity the Great Delusion: is changd to War & Sacrifice:
* I have naild his hands on Beth Rabbim & his [feet] on Heshbons Wall:
* O that I could live in his sight: O that I could bind him to my arm.
* 45 So saying: She drew aside her Veil from Mam-Tor to Dovedale
* Discovering her own perfect beauty to the Daughters of Albion
* And Hyle a winding Worm beneath [her Loom upon the scales.
* Hyle was become a winding Worm:] & not a weeping Infant.
* Trembling & pitying she screamd & fled upon the wind:
* 50 Hyle was a winding Worm and herself perfect in beauty:
* The desarts tremble at his wrath: they shrink themselves in fear.
* Cambel trembled with jealousy: she trembled! she envied!
* The envy ran thro Cathedrons Looms into the Heart
* Of mild Jerusalem, to destroy the Lamb of God. Jerusalem
* 55 Languishd upon Mount Olivet, East of mild Zions Hill.
* Los saw the envious blight above his Seventh Furnace
* On Londons Tower on the Thames: he drew Cambel in wrath,
* Into his thundering Bellows, heaving it for a loud blast!
* And with the blast of his Furnace upon fishy Billingsgate,
* 60 Beneath Albions fatal Tree, before the Gate of Los:
* Shewd her the fibres of her beloved to ameliorate
* The envy; loud she labourd in the Furnace of fire,
* To form the mighty form of Hand according to her will.
* In the Furnaces of Los & in the Wine-press treading day & night
* 65 Naked among the human clusters: bringing wine of anguish
* To feed the afflicted in the Furnaces: she minded not
* The raging flames, tho she returnd [consumd day after day
* A redning skeleton in howling woe:] instead of beauty
* Defo[r]mity: she gave her beauty to another: bearing abroad
* 70 Her struggling torment in her iron arms: and like a chain,
* Binding his wrists & ankles with the iron arms of love.
* Gwendolen saw the Infant in her siste[r]s arms; she howld
* Over the forests with bitter tears, and over the winding Worm
* Repentant: and she also in the eddying wind of Los's Bellows
* 75 Began her dolorous task of love in the Wine-press of Luvah
* To form the Worm into a form of love by tears & pain.
* The Sisters saw! trembling ran thro their Looms! soften[ing] mild
* Towards London: then they saw the Furna[c]es opend, & in tears
* Began to give their souls away in the Furna[c]es of affliction.
* 80 Los saw & was comforted at his Furnaces uttering thus his voice.
* I know I am Urthona keeper of the Gates of Heaven,
* And that I can at will expatiate in the Gardens of bliss;
* But pangs of love draw me down to my loins which are
* Become a fountain of veiny pipes: O Albion! my brother!
* PLATE 83
* Corruptibility appears upon thy limbs, and never more
* Can I arise and leave thy side, but labour here incessant
* Till thy awaking! yet alas I shall forget Eternity!
* Against the Patriarchal pomp and cruelty, labouring incessant
* 5 I shall become an Infant horror. Enion! Tharmas! friends
* Absorb me not in such dire grief: O Albion, my brother!
* Jerusalem hungers in the desart! affection to her children!
* The scorn'd and contemnd youthful girl, where shall she fly?
* Sussex shuts up her Villages. Hants, Devon & Wilts
* 10 Surrounded with masses of stone in orderd forms, determine then
* A form for Vala and a form for Luvah, here on the Thames
* Where the Victim nightly howls beneath the Druids knife:
* A Form of Vegetation, nail them down on the stems of Mystery:
* O when shall the Saxon return with the English his redeemed brother!
* 15 O when shall the Lamb of God descend among the Reprobate!
* I woo to Amalek to protect my fugitives[.] Amalek trembles:
* I call to Canaan & Moab in my night watches, they mourn:
* They listen not to my cry, they rejo[i]ce among their warriors
* Woden and Thor and Friga wholly consume my Saxons:
* 20 On their enormous Altars built in the terrible north:
* From Irelands rocks to Scandinavia Persia and Tartary:
* From the Atlantic Sea to the universal Erythrean.
* Found ye London! enormous City! weeps thy River?
* Upon his parent bosom lay thy little ones O Land
* 25 Forsaken. Surrey and Sussex are Enitharmons Chamber.
* Where I will build her a Couch of repose & my pillars
* Shall surround her in beautiful labyrinths: Oothoon?
* Where hides my child? in Oxford hidest thou with Antamon?
* In graceful hidings of error: in merciful deceit
* 30 Lest Hand the terrible destroy his Affection. thou hidest her:
* In chaste appearances for sweet deceits of love & modesty
* Immingled, interwoven, glistening to the sickening sight.
* Let Cambel and her Sisters sit within the Mundane Shell:
* Forming the fluctuating Globe according to their will,
* 35 According as they weave the little embryon nerves & veins
* The Eye, the little Nostrils, & the delicate Tongue & Ears
* Of labyrinthine intricacy: so shall they fold the World
* That whatever is seen upon the Mundane Shell, the same
* Be seen upon the Fluctuating Earth woven by the Sisters.
* 40 And sometimes the Earth shall roll in the Abyss & sometimes
* Stand in the Center & sometimes stretch flat in the Expanse,
* According to the will of the lovely Daughters of Albion.
* Sometimes it shall assimilate with mighty Golgonooza:
* Touching its summits: & sometimes divided roll apart.
* 45 As a beautiful Veil so these Females shall fold & unfold
* According to their will the outside surface of the Earth
* An outside shadowy Surface superadded to the real Surface;
* Which is unchangeable for ever & ever Amen: so be it!
* Separate Albions Sons gently from their Emanations,
* 50 Weaving bowers of delight on the current of infant Thames
* Where the old Parent still retains his youth as I alas!
* Retain my youth eight thousand and five hundred years.
* The labourer of ages in the Valleys of Despair!
* The land is markd for desolation & unless we plant
* 55 The seeds of Cities & of Villages in the Human bosom
* Albion must be a rock of blood: mark ye the points
* Where Cities shall remain & where Villages[;] for the rest!
* It must lie in confusion till Albions time of awaking.
* Place the Tribes of Llewellyn in America for a hiding place!
* 60 Till sweet Jerusalem emanates again into Eternity
* The night falls thick: I go upon my watch: be attentive:
* The Sons of Albion go forth; I follow from my Furnaces:
* That they return no more: that a place be prepard on Euphrates
* Listen to your Watchmans voice: sleep not before the Furnaces
* 65 Eternal Death stands at the door. O God pity our labours.
* So Los spoke. to the Daughters of Beulah while his Emanation
* Like a faint rainbow waved before him in the awful gloom
* Of London City on the Thames from Surrey Hills to Highgate:
* Swift turn the silver spindles, & the golden weights play soft
* 70 And lulling harmonies beneath the Looms, from Caithness in the north
* To Lizard-point & Dover in the south: his Emanation
* Joy'd in the many weaving threads in bright Cathedrons Dome
* Weaving the Web of life for Jerusalem. the Web of life
* Down flowing into Entuthons Vales glistens with soft affections.
* 75 While Los arose upon his Watch, and down from Golgonooza
* Putting on his golden sandals to walk from mountain to mountain,
* He takes his way, girding himself with gold & in his hand
* Holding his iron mace: The Spectre remains attentive
* Alternate they watch in night: alternate labour in day
* 80 Before the Furnaces labouring, while Los all night watches
* The stars rising & setting, & the meteors & terrors of night!
* With him went down the Dogs of Leutha, at his feet
* They lap the water of the trembling Thames then follow swift
* And thus he heard the voice of Albions daughters on Euphrates,
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* 85 Our Father Albions land: O it was a lovely land! & the Daughters of Beulah
* Walked up and down in its green mountains: but Hand is fled
* Away: & mighty Hyle: & after them Jerusalem is gone: Awake[...]
* PLATE 84|
* Highgates heights & Hampsteads, to Poplar Hackney & Bow:
* To Islington & Paddington & the Brook of Albions River
* We builded Jerusalem as a City & a Temple; from Lambeth
* We began our Foundations; lovely Lambeth! O lovely Hills
* 5 Of Camberwell, we shall behold you no more in glory & pride
* For Jerusalem lies in ruins & the Furnaces of Los are builded there
* You are now shrunk up to a narrow Rock in the midst of the Sea
* But here we build Babylon on Euphrates, compelld to build
* And to inhabit, our Little-ones to clothe in armour of the gold
* 10 Of Jerusalems Cherubims & to forge them swords of her Altars
* I see London blind & age-bent begging thro the Streets
* Of Babylon, led by a child. his tears run down his beard
* The voice of Wandering Reuben ecchoes from street to street
* In all the Cities of the Nations Paris Madrid Amsterdam
* 15 The Corner of Broad Street weeps; Poland Street languishes
* To Great Queen Street & Lincolns Inn, all is distress & woe.
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* 20 The night falls thick Hand comes from Albion in his strength
* He combines into a Mighty-one the Double Molech & Chemosh
* Marching thro Egypt in his fury the East is pale at his course
* The Nations of India, the Wild Tartar that never knew Man
* Starts from his lofty places & casts down his tents & flees away
* 25 But we woo him all the night ill songs, O Los come forth O Los
* Divide us from these terrors & give us power them to subdue
* Arise upon thy Watches let us see thy Globe of fire
* On Albions Rocks & let thy voice be heard upon Euphrates.
* Thus sang the Daughters in lamentation, uniting into One
* 30 With Rahab as she turnd the iron Spindle of destruction.
* Terrified at the Sons of Albion they took the Falshood which
* Gwendolen hid in her left hand. it grew &, grew till it
* PLATE 85
* Became a Space & an Allegory around the Winding Worm
* They namd it Canaan & built for it a tender Moon
* Los smild with joy thinking on Enitharmon & he brought
* Reuben from his twelvefold wandrings & led him into it
* 5 Planting the Seeds of the Twelve Tribes & Moses & David
* And gave a Time & Revolution to the Space Six Thousand Years
* He calld it Divine Analogy, for in Beulah the Feminine
* Emanations Create Space. the Masculine Create Time, & plant
* The Seeds of beauty in the Space: listning to their lamentation
* 10 Los walks upon his ancient Mountains in the deadly darkness
* Among his Furnaces directing his laborious Myriads watchful
* Looking to the East: & his voice is heard over the whole Earth
* As he watches the Furnaces by night, & directs the labourers
* And thus Los replies upon his Watch: the Valleys listen silent:
* 15 The Stars stand still to hear: Jerusalem & Vala cease to mourn:
* His voice is heard from Albion: the Alps & Appenines
* Listen: Hermon & Lebanon bow their crowned heads
* Babel & Shinar look toward the Western Gate, they sit down
* Silent at his voice: they view the red Globe of fire in Los's hand
* 20 As he walks from Furnace to Furnace directing the Labourers
* And this is the Song of Los, the Song that he sings on his Watch
* O lovely mild Jerusalem! O Shiloh of Mount Ephraim!
* I see thy Gates of precious stones: thy Walls of gold & silver
* Thou art the soft reflected Image of the Sleeping Man
* 25 Who stretchd on Albions rocks reposes amidst his Twenty-eight
* Cities: where Beulah lovely terminates, in the hills & valleys of Albion
* Cities not yet embodied in Time and Space: plant ye
* The Seeds O Sisters in the bosom of Time & Spaces womb
* To spring up for Jerusalem: lovely Shadow of Sleeping Albion
* 30 Why wilt thou rend thyself apart & build an Earthly Kingdom
* To reign in pride & to opress & to mix the Cup of Delusion
* O thou that dwellest with Babylon! Come forth O lovely-one
* PLATE 86
* I see thy Form O lovely mild Jerusalem, Wingd with Six Wings
* In the opacous Bosom of the Sleeper, lovely Three-fold
* In Head & Heart & Reins, three Universes of love & beauty
* Thy forehead bright: Holiness to the Lord, with Gates of pearl
* 5 Reflects Eternity beneath thy azure wings of feathery down
* Ribbd delicate & clothd with featherd gold & azure & purple
* From thy white shoulders shadowing, purity in holiness!
* Thence featherd with soft crimson of the ruby bright as fire
* Spreading into the azure Wings which like a canopy
* 10 Bends over thy immortal Head in which Eternity dwells
* Albion beloved Land; I see thy mountains & thy hills
* And valleys & thy pleasant Cities Holiness to the Lord
* I see the Spectres of thy Dead O Emanation of Albion.
* Thy Bosom white, translucent coverd with immortal gems
* 15 A sublime ornament not obscuring the outlines of beauty
* Terrible to behold for thy extreme beauty & perfection
* Twelve-fold here all the Tribes of Israel I behold
* Upon the Holy Land: I see the River of Life & Tree of Life
* I see the New Jerusalem descending out of Heaven
* 20 Between thy Wings of gold & silver featherd immortal
* Clear as the rainbow, as the cloud of the Suns tabernacle
* Thy Reins coverd with Wings translucent sometimes covering
* And sometimes spread abroad reveal the flames of holiness
* Which like a robe covers: & like a Veil of Seraphim
* 25 In flaming fire unceasing burns from Eternity to Eternity
* Twelvefold I there behold Israel in her Tents
* A Pillar of a Cloud by day: a Pillar of fire by night
* Guides them: there I behold Moab & Ammon & Amalek
* There Bells of silver round thy knees living articulate
* 30 Comforting sounds of love & harmony & on thy feet
* Sandals of gold & pearl, & Egypt & Assyria before me
* The Isles of Javan, Philistea, Tyre and Lebanon
* Thus Los sings upon his Watch walking from Furnace to Furnace.
* He siezes his Hammer every hour, flames surround him as
* 35 He beats: seas roll beneath his feet, tempests muster
* Arou[n]d his head. the thick hail stones stand ready to obey
* His voice in the black cloud, his Sons labour in thunders
* At his Furnaces; his Daughters at their Looms sing woes
* His Emanation separates in milky fibres agonizing
* 40 Among the golden Looms of Cathedron sending fibres of love
* From Golgonooza with sweet visions for Jerusalem, wanderer.
* Nor can any consummate bliss without being Generated
* On Earth; of those whose Emanations weave the loves
* Of Beulah for Jerusalem & Shiloh, in immortal Golgonooza
* 45 Concentering in the majestic form of Erin in eternal tears
* Viewing the Winding Worm on the Desarts of Great Tartary
* Viewing Los in his shudderings, pouring balm on his sorrows
* So dread is Los's fury, that none dare him to approach
* Without becoming his Children in the Furnaces of affliction
* 50 And Enitharmon like a faint rainbow waved before him
* Filling with Fibres from his loins which reddend with desire
* Into a Globe of blood beneath his bosom trembling in darkness
* Of Albions clouds. he fed it, with his tears & bitter groans
* Hiding his Spectre in invisibility from the timorous Shade
* 55 Till it became a separated cloud of beauty grace & love
* Among the darkness of his Furnaces dividing asunder till
* She separated stood before him a lovely Female weeping
* Even Enitharmon separated outside, & his Loins closed
* And heal'd after the separation: his pains he soon forgot:
* 60 Lured by her beauty outside of himself in shadowy grief.
* Two Wills they had; Two Intellects: & not as in times of old.
* Silent they wanderd hand in hand like two Infants wandring
* From Enion in the desarts, terrified at each others beauty
* Envying each other yet desiring, in all devouring Love,
* PLATE 87
* Repelling weeping Enion blind & age-bent into the fourfold
* Desarts. Los first broke silence & began to utter his love
* O lovely Enitharmon: I behold thy graceful forms
* Moving beside me till intoxicated with the woven labyrinth
* 5 Of beauty & perfection my wild fibres shoot in veins
* Of blood thro all my nervous limbs. soon overgrown in roots
* I shall be closed from thy sight. sieze therefore in thy hand
* The small fibres as they shoot around me draw out in pity
* And let them run on the winds of thy bosom: I will fix them
* 10 With pulsations. we will divide them into Sons & Daughters
* To live in thy Bosoms translucence as in an eternal morning
* Enitharmon answerd. No! I will sieze thy Fibres & weave
* Them: not as thou wilt but as I will, for I will Create
* A round Womb beneath my bosom lest I also be overwoven
* 15 With Love; be thou assured I never will be thy slave
* Let Mans delight be Love; but Womans delight be Pride
* In Eden our loves were the same here they are opposite
* I have Loves of my own I will weave them in Albions Spectre
* Cast thou in Jerusalems shadows thy Loves! silk of liquid
* 20 Rubies Jacinths Crysolites: issuing from thy Furnaces. While
* Jerusalem divides thy care: while thou carest for Jerusalem
* Know that I never will be thine: also thou hidest Vala
* From her these fibres shoot to shut me in a Grave.
* You are Albions Victim, he has set his Daughter in your path
* PLATE 88
* Los answerd sighing like the Bellows of his Furnaces
* I care not! the swing of my Hammer shall measure the starry round[.]
* When in Eternity Man converses with Man they enter
* Into each others Bosom (which are Universes of delight)
* 5 In mutual interchange. and first their Emanations meet
* Surrounded by their Children. if they embrace & comingle
* The Human Four-fold Forms mingle also in thunders of Intellect
* But if the Emanations mingle not; with storms & agitations
* Of earthquakes & consuming fires they roll apart in fear
* 10 For Man cannot unite with Man but by their Emanations
* Which stand both Male & Female at the Gates of each Humanity
* How then can I ever again be united as Man with Man
* While thou my Emanation refusest my Fibres of dominion.
* When Souls mingle & join thro all the Fibres of Brotherhood
* 15 Can there be any secret joy on Earth greater than this?
* Enitharmon answerd: This is Womans World, nor need she any
* Spectre to defend her from Man. I will Create secret places
* And the masculine names of the places Merlin & Arthur.
* A triple Female Tabernacle for Moral Law I weave
* 20 That he who loves Jesus may loathe terrified Female love
* Till God himself become a Male subservient to the Female.
* She spoke in scorn & jealousy, alternate torments; and
* So speaking she sat down on Sussex shore singing lulling
* Cadences, & playing in sweet intoxication among the glistening
* 25 Fibres of Los: sending them over the Ocean eastward into
* The realms of dark death; O perverse to thyself, contrarious
* To thy own purposes; for when she began to weave
* Shooting out in sweet pleasure her bosom in milky Love
* Flowd into the aching fibres of Los. yet contending against him
* 30 In pride sending his Fibres over to her objects of jealousy
* In the little lovely Allegoric Night of Albions Daughters
* Which stretchd abroad, expanding east & west & north & south
* Thro' all the World of Erin & of Los & all their Children
* A sullen Smile broke from the Spectre in mockery & scorn
* 35 Knowing himself the author of their divisions & shrinkings, gratified
* At their contentions, he wiped his tears he washd his visage.
* The Man who respects Woman shall be despised by Woman
* And deadly cunning & mean abjectness only, shall enjoy them
* For I will make their places of joy & love, excrementitious[.]
* 40 Continually building, continually destroying in Family feuds
* While you are under the dominion of a jealous Female
* Unpermanent for ever because of love & jealousy.
* You shall want all the Minute Particulars of Life
* Thus joyd the Spectre in the dusky fires of Los's Forge, eyeing
* 45 Enitharmon who at her shining Looms sings lulling cadences
* While Los stood at his Anvil in wrath the victim of their love
* And hate; dividing the Space of Love with brazen Compasses
* In Golgonooza & in Udan-Adan & in Entuthon of Urizen.
* The blow of his Hammer is Justice. the swing of his Hammer: Mercy.
* 50 The force of Los's Hammer is eternal Forgiveness; but
* His rage or his mildness were vain, she scatterd his love on the wind
* Eastward into her own Center, creating the Female Womb
* In mild Jerusalem around the Lamb of God. Loud howl
* The Furnaces of Los! loud roll the Wheels of Enitharmon
* 55 The Four Zoa's in all their faded majesty burst out in fury
* And fire. Jerusalem took the Cup which foamd in Valas hand
* Like the red Sun upon the mountains in the bloody day
* Upon the Hermaphroditic Wine-presses of Love & Wrath.
* PLATE 89
* Tho divided by the Cross & Nails & Thorns & Spear
* In cruelties of Rahab & Tirzah[,] permanent endure
* A terrible indefinite Hermaphroditic form
* A Wine-press of Love & Wrath double Hermaph[r]oditic
* 5 Twelvefold in Allegoric pomp in selfish holiness
* The Pharisaion, the Grammateis, the Presbuterion,
* The Archiereus, the Iereus, the Saddusaion, double
* Each withoutside of the other, covering eastern heaven
* Thus was the Covering Cherub reveald majestic image
* 10 Of Selfhood, Body put off, the Antichrist accursed
* Coverd with precious stones, a Human Dragon terrible
* And bright, stretchd over Europe & Asia gorgeous
* In three nights he devourd the rejected corse of death
* His Head dark, deadly, in its Brain incloses a reflexion
* 15 Of Eden all perverted; Egypt on the Gihon many tongued
* And many mouthd: Ethiopia, Lybia, the Sea of Rephaim
* Minute Particulars in slavery I behold among the brick-kilns
* Disorganizd, & there is Pharoh in his iron Court:
* And the Dragon of the River & the Furnaces of iron.
* 20 Outwoven from Thames & Tweed & Severn awful streams
* Twelve ridges of Stone frown over all the Earth in tyrant pride
* Frown over each River stupendous Works of Albions Druid Sons
* And Albions Forests of Oaks coverd the Earth from Pole to Pole
* His Bosom wide reflects Moab & Ammon on the River
* 25 Pison, since calld Arnon, there is Heshbon beautiful
* The flocks of Rabbath on the Arnon & the Fish-pools of Heshbon
* Whose currents flow into the Dead Sea by Sodom & Gomorra
* Above his Head high arching Wings black filld with Eyes
* Spring upon iron sinews from the Scapulae & Os Humeri.
* 30 There Israel in bondage to his Generalizing Gods
* Molech & Chemosh, & in his left breast is Philistea
* In Druid Temples over the whole Earth with Victims Sacrifice,
* From Gaza to Damascus Tyre & Sidon & the Gods
* Of Javan thro the Isles of Grecia & all Europes Kings
* 35 Where Hiddekel pursues his course among the rocks
* Two Wings spring from his ribs of brass, starry, black as night
* But translucent their blackness as the dazling of gems
* His Loins inclose Babylon on Euphrates beautiful
* And Rome in sweet Hesperia. there Israel scatterd abroad
* 40 In martydoms & slavery I behold: ah vision of sorrow!
* Inclosed by eyeless Wings, glowing with fire as the iron
* Heated in the Smiths forge, but cold the wind of their dread fury
* But in the midst of a devouring Stomach, Jerusalem
* Hidden within the Covering Cherub as in a Tabernacle
* 45 Of threefold workmanship in allegoric delusion & woe
* There the Seven Kings of Canaan & Five Baalim of Philistea
* Sihon & Og the Anakim & Emim, Nephilim & Gibborim
* From Babylon to Rome & the Wings spread from Japan
* Where the Red Sea terminates the World of Generation & Death
* 50 To Irelands farthest rocks where Giants builded their Causeway
* Into the Sea of Rephaim, but the Sea oerwhelmd them all.
* A Double Female now appeard within the Tabernacle,
* Religion hid in War, a Dragon red & hidden Harlot
* Each within other, but without a Warlike Mighty-one
* 55 Of dreadful power, sitting upon Horeb pondering dire
* And mighty preparations mustering multitudes innumerable
* Of warlike sons among the sands of Midian & Aram
* For multitudes of those who sleep in Alla descend
* Lured by his warlike symphonies of tabret pipe & harp
* 60 Burst the bottoms of the Graves & Funeral Arks of Beulah[;]
* Wandering in that unknown Night beyond the silent Grave
* They become One with the Antichrist & are absorbd in him
* PLATE 90
* The Feminine separates from the Masculine & both from Man,
* Ceasing to be His Emanations, Life to Themselves assuming!
* And while they circumscribe his Brain, & while they circumscribe
* His Heart, & while they circumscribe his Loins! a Veil & Net
* 5 Of Veins of red Blood grows around them like a scarlet robe.
* Covering them from the sight of Man like the woven Veil of Sleep
* Such as the Flowers of Beulah weave to be their Funeral Mantles
* But dark! opake! tender to touch, & painful! & agonizing
* To the embrace of love, & to the mingling of soft fibres
* 10 Of tender affection. that no more the Masculine mingles
* With the Feminine. but the Sublime is shut out from the Pathos
* In howling torment, to build stone walls of separation, compelling
* The Pathos, to weave curtains of hiding secresy from the torment.
* Bowen & Conwenna stood on Skiddaw cutting the Fibres
* 15 Of Benjamin from Chesters River: loud the River; loud the Mersey
* And the Ribble. thunder into the Irish sea, as the Twelve Sons
* Of Albion drank & imbibed the Life & eternal Form of Luvah
* Cheshire & Lancashire & Westmoreland groan in anguish
* As they cut the fibres from the Rivers he sears them with hot
* 20 Iron of his Forge & fixes them into Bones of chalk & Rock
* Conwenna sat above: with solemn cadences she drew
* Fibres of life out from the Bones into her golden Loom
* Hand had his Furnace on Highgates heights & it reachd
* To Brockley Hills across the Thames: he with double Boadicea
* 25 In cruel pride cut Reuben apart from the Hills of Surrey
* Comingling with Luvah & with the Sepulcher of Luvah
* For the Male is a Furnace of beryll: the Female is a golden Loom
* Los cries: No Individual ought to appropriate to Himself
* Or to his Emanation, any of the Universal Characteristics
* Of David or of Eve, of the Woman, or of the Lord. 30
* Of Reuben or of Benjamin, of Joseph or Judah or Levi
* Those who dare appropriate to themselves Universal Attributes
* Are the Blasphemous Selfhoods & must be broken asunder
* A Vegetated Christ & a Virgin Eve, are the Hermaphroditic
* Blasphemy, by his Maternal Birth he is that Evil-One 35
* And his Maternal Humanity must be put off Eternally
* Lest the Sexual Generation swallow up Regeneration
* Come Lord Jesus take on thee the Satanic Body of Holiness
* So Los cried in the Valleys of Middlesex in the Spirit of Prophecy
* 40 While in Selfhood Hand & Hyle & Bowen & Skofeld appropriate
* The Divine Names: seeking to Vegetate the Divine Vision
* In a corporeal & ever dying Vegetation & Corruption
* Mingling with Luvah in One. they become One Great Satan
* Loud scream the Daughters of Albion beneath the Tongs & Hammer
* 45 Dolorous are their lamentations in the burning Forge
* They drink Reuben & Benjamin as the iron drinks the fire
* They are red hot with cruelty: raving along the Banks of Thames
* And on Tyburns Brook among the howling Victims in loveliness
* While Hand & Hyle condense the Little-ones & erect them into
* 50 A mighty Temple even to the stars: but they Vegetate
* Beneath Los's Hammer, that Life may not be blotted out.
* For Los said: When the Individual appropriates Universality
* He divides into Male & Female: & when the Male & Female,
* Appropriate Individuality, they become an Eternal Death.
* 55 Hermaphroditic worshippers of a God of cruelty & law!
* Your Slaves & Captives; you compell to worship a God of Mercy.
* These are the Demonstrations of Los, & the blows of my mighty Hammer
* So Los spoke. And the Giants of Albion terrified & ashamed
* With Los's thunderous Words, began to build trembling rocking Stones
* 60 For his Words roll in thunders & lightnings among the Temples
* Terrified rocking to & fro upon the earth, & sometimes
* Resting in a Circle in Maiden or in Strathness or Dura.
* Plotting to devour Albion & Los the friend of Albion
* Denying in private: mocking God & Eternal Life: & in Public
* 65 Collusion, calling themselves Deists, Worshipping the Maternal
* Humanity; calling it Nature, and Natural Religion
* But still the thunder of Los peals loud & thus the thunder's cry
* These beautiful Witchcrafts of Albion, are gratifyd by Cruelty
* PLATE 91
* It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend:
* The man who permits you to injure him, deserves your vengeance:
* He also will recieve it; go Spectre! obey my most secret desire:
* Which thou knowest without my speaking: Go to these Fiends of Righteousness
* 5 Tell them to obey their Humanities, & not pretend Holiness;
* When they are murderers: as far as my Hammer & Anvil permit
* Go, tell them that the Worship of God, is honouring his gifts
* In other men: & loving the greatest men best, each according
* To his Genius: which is the Holy Ghost in Man; there is no other
* 10 God, than that God who is the intellectual fountain of Humanity;
* He who envies or calumniates: which is murder & cruelty,
* Murders the Holy-one: Go tell them this & overthrow their cup,
* Their bread, their altar-table, their incense & their oath:
* Their marriage & their baptism, their burial & consecration:
* 15 I have tried to make friends by corporeal gifts but have only
* Made enemies: I never made friends but by spiritual gifts;
* By severe contentions of friendship & the burning fire of thought.
* He who would see the Divinity must see him in his Children
* One first, in friendship & love; then a Divine Family, & in the midst
* 20 Jesus will appear; so he who wishes to see a Vision; a perfect Whole
* Must see it in its Minute Particulars; Organized & not as thou
* O Fiend of Righteousness pretendest; thine is a Disorganized
* And snowy cloud: brooder of tempests & destructive War
* You smile with pomp & rigor: you talk of benevolence & virtue!
* 25 I act with benevolence & virtue & get murderd time after time:
* You accumulate Particulars, & murder by analyzing, that you
* May take the aggregate; & you call the aggregate Moral Law:
* And you call that Swelld & bloated Form; a Minute Particular.
* But General Forms have their vitality in Particulars: & every
* 30 Particular is a Man; a Divine Member of the Divine Jesus.
* So Los cried at his Anvil in the horrible darkness weeping!
* The Spectre builded stupendous Works, taking the Starry Heavens
* Like to a curtain & folding them according to his will
* Repeating the Smaragdine Table of Hermes to draw Los down
* 35 Into the Indefinite, refusing to believe without demonstration[.]
* Los reads the Stars of Albion! the Spectre reads the Voids
* Between the Stars; among the arches of Albions Tomb sublime
* Rolling the Sea in rocky paths: forming Leviathan
* And Behemoth: the War by Sea enormous & the War
* 40 By Land astounding: erecting pillars in the deepest Hell,
* To reach the heavenly arches; Los beheld undaunted furious
* His heavd Hammer; he swung it round & at one blow,
* In unpitying ruin driving down the pyramids of pride
* Smiting the Spectre on his Anvil & the integuments of his Eye
* 45 And Ear unbinding in dire pain, with many blows,
* Of strict severity self-subduing, & with many tears labouring.
* Then he sent forth the Spectre all his pyramids were grains
* Of sand & his pillars: dust on the flys wing: & his starry
* Heavens; a moth of gold & silver mocking his anxious grasp
* 50 Thus Los alterd his Spectre & every Ratio of his Reason
* He alterd time after time, with dire pain & many tears
* Till he had completely divided him into a separate space.
* Terrified Los sat to behold trembling & weeping & howling
* I care not whether a Man is Good or Evil; all that I care
* 55 Is whether he is a Wise Man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness
* And put on Intellect: or my thundrous Hammer shall drive thee
* To wrath which thou condemnest: till thou obey my voice
* So Los terrified cries: trembling & weeping & howling! Beholding
* PLATE 92
* What do I see? The Briton Saxon Roman Norman amalgamating
* In my Furnaces into One Nation the English: & taking refuge
* In the Loins of Albion. The Canaanite united with the fugitive
* Hebrew, whom she divided into Twelve, & sold into Egypt
* 5 Then scatterd the Egyptian & Hebrew to the four Winds!
* This sinful Nation Created in our Furnaces & Looms is Albion
* So Los spoke. Enitharmon answerd in great terror in Lambeths Vale
* The Poets Song draws to its period & Enitharmon is no more.
* For if he be that Albion I can never weave him in my Looms
* 10 But when he touches the first fibrous thread, like filmy dew
* My Looms will be no more & I annihilate vanish for ever
* Then thou wilt Create another Female according to thy Will.
* Los answerd swift as the shuttle of gold. Sexes must vanish & cease
* To be, when Albion arises from his dread repose O lovely Enitharmon:
* 15 When all their Crimes, their Punishments their Accusations of Sin:
* All their Jealousies Revenges. Murders. hidings of Cruelty in Deceit
* Appear only in the Outward Spheres of Visionary Space and Time.
* In the shadows of Possibility by Mutual Forgiveness forevermore
* And in the Vision & in the Prophecy, that we may Foresee & Avoid
* 20 The terrors of Creation & Redemption & Judgment. Beholding them
* Displayd in the Emanative Visions of Canaan in Jerusalem & in Shiloh
* And in the Shadows of Remembrance, & in the Chaos of the Spectre
* Amalek, Edom, Egypt, Moab, Ammon, Ashur, Philistea, around Jerusalem
* Where the Druids reard their Rocky Circles to make permanent Remembrance
* 25 Of Sin. & the Tree of Good & Evil sprang from the Rocky Circle & Snake
* Of the Druid, along the Valley of Rephaim from Camberwell to Golgotha
* And framed the Mundane Shell Cavernous in Length Bredth & Highth
* PLATE 93
* illustration from Jerusalem, plate 93
* Anytus Melitus & Lycon thought Socrates a Very Pernicious Man So Caiphas thought Jesus
* Enitharmon heard. She raisd her head like the mild Moon
* O Rintrah! O Palamabron! What are your dire & awful purposes
* Enitharmons name is nothing before you: you forget all my Love!
* The Mothers love of obedience is forgotten & you seek a Love
* 5 Of the pride of dominion, that will Divorce Ocalythron & Elynittria
* Upon East Moor in Derbyshire & along the Valleys of Cheviot
* Could you Love me Rintrah, if you Pride not in my Love
* As Reuben found Mandrakes in the field & gave them to his Mother
* Pride meets with Pride upon the Mountains in the stormy day
* 0 In that terrible Day of Rintrahs Plow & of Satans driving the Team.
* Ah! then I heard my little ones weeping along the Valley!
* Ah! then I saw my beloved ones fleeing from my Tent
* Merlin was like thee Rintrah among the Giants of Albion
* Judah was like Palamabron: O Simeon! O Levi! ye fled away
* 15 How can I hear my little ones weeping along the Valley
* Or how upon the distant Hills see my beloveds Tents.
* Then Los again took up his speech as Enitharmon ceast
* Fear not my Sons this Waking Death. he is become One with me
* Behold him here! We shall not Die! we shall be united in Jesus.
* 20 Will you suffer this Satan this Body of Doubt that Seems but Is Not
* To occupy the very threshold of Eternal Life. if Bacon, Newton, Locke,
* Deny a Conscience in Man & the Communion of Saints & Angels
* Contemning the Divine Vision & Fruition, Worshiping the Deus
* Of the Heathen, The God of This World, & the Goddess Nature
* 25 Mystery Babylon the Great, The Druid Dragon & hidden Harlot
* Is it not that Signal of the Morning which was told us in the Beginning
* Thus they converse upon Mam-Tor. the Graves thunder under their feet
* PLATE 94
* Albion cold lays on his Rock: storms & snows beat round him.
* Beneath the Furnaces & the starry Wheels & the Immortal Tomb
* Howling winds cover him: roaring seas dash furious against him
* In the deep darkness broad lightnings glare long thunders roll
* 5 The weeds of Death inwrap his hands & feet blown incessant
* And washd incessant by the for-ever restless sea-waves foaming abroad
* Upon the white Rock. England a Female Shadow as deadly damps
* Of the Mines of Cornwall & Derbyshire lays upon his bosom heavy
* Moved by the wind in volumes of thick cloud returning folding round
* 10 His loins & bosom unremovable by swelling storms & loud rending
* Of enraged thunders. Around them the Starry Wheels of their Giant Sons
* Revolve: & over them the Furnaces of Los & the Immortal Tomb around
* Erin sitting in the Tomb, to watch them unceasing night and day
* And the Body of Albion was closed apart from all Nations.
* 15 Over them the famishd Eagle screams on boney Wings and around
* Them howls the Wolf of famine deep heaves the Ocean black thundering
* Around the wormy Garments of Albion: then pausing in deathlike silence
* Time was Finished! The Breath Divine Breathed over Albion
* Beneath the Furnaces & starry Wheels and in the Immortal Tomb
* 20 And England who is Brittannia awoke from Death on Albions bosom
* She awoke pale & cold she fainted seven times on the Body of Albion
* O pitious Sleep O pitious Dream! O God O God awake I have slain
* In Dreams of Chastity & Moral Law I have Murdered Albion! Ah!
* In Stone-henge & on London Stone & in the Oak Groves of Malden
* 25 I have Slain him in my Sleep with the Knife of the Druid O England
* O all ye Nations of the Earth behold ye the Jealous Wife
* The Eagle & the Wolf & Monkey & Owl & the King & Priest were there
* PLATE 95
* Her voice pierc'd Albions clay cold ear. he moved upon the Rock
* The Breath Divine went forth upon the morning hills, Albion mov'd
* Upon the Rock, he opend his eyelids in pain; in pain he mov'd
* His stony members, he saw England. Ah! shall the Dead live again
* 5 The Breath Divine went forth over the morning hills Albion rose
* In anger: the wrath of God breaking bright flaming on all sides around
* His awful limbs: into the Heavens he walked clothed in flames
* Loud thundring, with broad flashes of flaming lightning & pillars
* Of fire, speaking the Words of Eternity in Human Forms, in direful
* 10 Revolutions of Action & Passion, thro the Four Elements on all sides
* Surrounding his awful Members. Thou seest the Sun in heavy clouds
* Struggling to rise above the Mountains. in his burning hand
* He takes his Bow, then chooses out his arrows of flaming gold
* Murmuring the Bowstring breathes with ardor! clouds roll around the
* 15 Horns of the wide Bow, loud sounding winds sport on the mountain brows
* Compelling Urizen to his Furrow; & Tharmas to his Sheepfold;
* And Luvah to his Loom: Urthona he beheld mighty labouring at
* His Anvil, in the Great Spectre Los unwearied labouring & weeping
* Therefore the Sons of Eden praise Urthonas Spectre in songs
* 20 Because he kept the Divine Vision in time of trouble.
* As the Sun & Moon lead forward the Visions of Heaven & Earth
* England who is Brittannia enterd Albions bosom rejoicing,
* Rejoicing in his indignation! adoring his wrathful rebuke.
* She who adores not your frowns will only loathe your smiles
* PLATE 96
* As the Sun & Moon lead forward the Visions of Heaven & Earth
* England who is Brittannia entered Albions bosom rejoicing
* Then Jesus appeared standing by Albion as the Good Shepherd
* By the lost Sheep that he hath found & Albion knew that it
* 5 Was the Lord the Universal Humanity, & Albion saw his Form
* A Man. & they conversed as Man with Man, in Ages of Eternity
* And the Divine Appearance was the likeness & similitude of Los
* Albion said. O Lord what can I do! my Selfhood cruel
* Marches against thee deceitful from Sinai & from Edom
* 10 Into the Wilderness of Judah to meet thee in his pride
* I behold the Visions of my deadly Sleep of Six Thousand Years
* Dazling around thy skirts like a Serpent of precious stones & gold
* I know it is my Self. O my Divine Creator & Redeemer
* Jesus replied Fear not Albion unless I die thou canst not live
* 15 But if I die I shall arise again & thou with me
* This is Friendship & Brotherhood without it Man Is Not
* So Jesus spoke! the Covering Cherub coming on in darkness
* Overshadowd them & Jesus said Thus do Men in Eternity
* One for another to put off by forgiveness, every sin
* 20 Albion replyd. Cannot Man exist without Mysterious
* Offering of Self for Another, is this Friendship & Brotherhood
* I see thee in the likeness & similitude of Los my Friend
* Jesus said. Wouldest thou love one who never died
* For thee or ever die for one who had not died for thee
* 25 And if God dieth not for Man & giveth not himself
* Eternally for Man Man could not exist. for Man is Love:
* As God is Love: every kindness to another is a little Death
* In the Divine Image nor can Man exist but by Brotherhood
* So saying. the Cloud overshadowing divided them asunder
* 30 Albion stood in terror: not for himself but for his Friend
* Divine, & Self was lost in the contemplation of faith
* And wonder at the Divine Mercy & at Los's sublime honour
* Do I sleep amidst danger to Friends! O my Cities & Counties
* Do you sleep! rouze up! rouze up. Eternal Death is abroad
* 35 So Albion spoke & threw himself into the Furnaces of affliction
* All was a Vision, all a Dream: the Furnaces became
* Fountains of Living Waters flowing from the Humanity Divine
* And all the Cities of Albion rose from their Slumbers, and All
* The Sons & Daughters of Albion on soft clouds Waking from Sleep
* 40 Soon all around remote the Heavens burnt with flaming fires
* And Urizen & Luvah & Tharmas & Urthona arose into
* Albions Bosom: Then Albion stood before Jesus in the Clouds
* Of Heaven Fourfold among the Visions of God in Eternity
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* Awake! Awake Jerusalem! O lovely Emanation of Albion
* Awake and overspread all Nations as in Ancient Time
* For lo! the Night of Death is past and the Eternal Day
* Appears upon our Hills: Awake Jerusalem, and come away
* 5 So spake the Vision of Albion & in him so spake in my hearing
* The Universal Father. Then Albion stretchd his hand into Infinitude.
* And took his Bow. Fourfold the Vision for bright beaming Urizen
* Layd his hand on the South & took a breathing Bow of carved Gold
* Luvah his hand stretch'd to the East & bore a Silver Bow bright shining
* 10 Tharmas Westward a Bow of Brass pure flaming richly wrought
* Urthona Northward in thick storms a Bow of Iron terrible thundering.
* And the Bow is a Male & Female & the Quiver of the Arrows of Love,
* Are the Children of this Bow: a Bow of Mercy & Loving-kindness: laying
* Open the hidden Heart in Wars of mutual Benevolence Wars of Love
* 15 And the Hand of Man grasps firm between the Male & Female Loves
* And he Clothed himself in Bow & Arrows in awful state Fourfold
* In the midst of his Twenty-eight Cities each with his Bow breathing
* PLATE 98
* Then each an Arrow flaming from his Quiver fitted carefully
* They drew fourfold the unreprovable String, bending thro the wide Heavens
* The horned Bow Fourfold, loud sounding flew the flaming Arrow fourfold
* Murmuring the Bow-string breathes with ardor. Clouds roll round the horns
* 5 Of the wide Bow, loud sounding Winds sport on the Mountains brows:
* The Druid Spectre was Annihilate loud thundring rejoicing terrific vanishing
* Fourfold Annihilation & at the clangor of the Arrows of Intellect
* The innumerable Chariots of the Almighty appeard in Heaven
* And Bacon & Newton & Locke, & Milton & Shakspear & Chaucer
* 10 A Sun of blood red wrath surrounding heaven on all sides around
* Glorious incompreh[en]sible by Mortal Man & each Chariot was Sexual Threefold
* And every Man stood Fourfold, each Four Faces had. One to the West
* One toward the East One to the South One to the North. the Horses Fourfold
* And the dim Chaos brightend beneath, above, around! Eyed as the Peacock
* 15 According to the Human Nerves of Sensation, the Four Rivers of the Water of Life
* South stood the Nerves of the Eye. East in Rivers of bliss the Nerves of the
* Expansive Nostrils West, flowd the Parent Sense the Tongue. North stood
* The labyrinthine Ear. Circumscribing & Circumcising the excrementitious
* Husk & Covering into Vacuum evaporating revealing the lineaments of Man
* 20 Driving outward the Body of Death in an Eternal Death & Resurrection
* Awaking it to Life among the Flowers of Beulah rejoicing in Unity
* In the Four Senses in the Outline the Circumference & Form, for ever
* In Forgiveness of Sins which is Self Annihilation. it is the Covenant of Jehovah
* The Four Living Creatures Chariots of Humanity Divine Incomprehensible
* 25 In beautiful Paradises expand These are the Four Rivers of Paradise
* And the Four Faces of Humanity fronting the Four Cardinal Points
* Of Heaven going forward forward irresistible from Eternity to Eternity
* And they conversed together in Visionary forms dramatic which bright
* Redounded from their Tongues in thunderous majesty, in Visions
* 30 In new Expanses, creating exemplars of Memory and of Intellect
* Creating Space, Creating Time according to the wonders Divine
* Of Human Imagination, throughout all the Three Regions immense
* Of Childhood, Manhood & Old Age[;] & the all tremendous unfathomable Non Ens
* Of Death was seen in regenerations terrific or complacent varying
* 35 According to the subject of discourse & every Word & Every Character
* Was Human according to the Expansion or Contraction, the Translucence or
* Opakeness of Nervous fibres such was the variation of Time & Space
* Which vary according as the Organs of Perception vary & they walked
* To & fro in Eternity as One Man reflecting each in each & clearly seen
* 40 And seeing: according to fitness & order. And I heard Jehovah speak
* Terrific from his Holy Place & saw the Words of the Mutual Covenant Divine
* On Chariots of gold & jewels with Living Creatures starry & flaming
* With every Colour, Lion, Tyger, Horse, Elephant, Eagle Dove, Fly, Worm,
* And the all wondrous Serpent clothed in gems & rich array Humanize
* 45 In the Forgiveness of Sins according to the Covenant of Jehovah. They Cry
* Where is the Covenant of Priam, the Moral Virtues of the Heathen
* Where is the Tree of Good & Evil that rooted beneath the cruel heel
* Of Albions Spectre the Patriarch Druid! where are all his Human Sacrifices
* For Sin in War & in the Druid Temples of the Accuser of Sin: beneath
* 50 The Oak Groves of Albion that coverd the whole Earth beneath his Spectre
* Where are the Kingdoms of the World & all their glory that grew on Desolation
* The Fruit of Albions Poverty Tree when the Triple Headed Gog-Magog Giant
* Of Albion Taxed the Nations into Desolation & then gave the Spectrous Oath
* Such is the Cry from all the Earth from the Living Creatures of the Earth
* 55 And from the great City of Golgonooza in the Shadowy Generation
* And from the Thirty-two Nations of the Earth among the Living Creatures
* PLATE 99
* All Human Forms identified even Tree Metal Earth & Stone. all
* Human Forms identified, living going forth & returning wearied
* Into the Planetary lives of Years Months Days & Hours reposing
* And then Awaking into his Bosom in the Life of Immortality.
* 5 And I heard the Name of their Emanations they are named Jerusalem
* The End of The Song
* of Jerusalem
* PLATE 100
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