# Laocoon (Blake)

Laocoön, copy B, object 1 (Bentley 1, Erdman 1, Keynes 1)
* [Laocoön]
* If Morality was Christianity Socrates was the Saviour
* יה [Jehovah] & his two Sons Satan & Adam as they were copied from the Cherubim
* of Solomons Temple by three Rhodians & applied to Natural Fact, or History of Ilium
* Art Degraded Imagination Denied War Governed the Nations
* 5Evil
* Good & Evil are
* Riches & Poverty a Tree of
* Misery
* propagating
* 10 Generation & Death
* The Gods of Priam are the Cherubim of Moses & Solomon: The Hosts
* of Heaven
* Without Unceasing Practise nothing can be done Practise is Art
* If you leave off you are Lost
* 15 The Angel of the Divine Presence
* מלאך יהוה [Angel of Jehovah]
* ΟΦΙουΧος [Serpent-holder]
* HEBREW ART is
* called SIN by the Deist SCIENCE
* 20 All that we See is Vision
* from Generated Organs gone as soon as come
* Permanent in The Imagination; Considerd
* as Nothing by the
* NATURAL MAN
* 25 What can be Created
* Can be Destroyed
* Adam is only
* The Natural Man
* & not the Soul
* 30 or Imagination
* Good
* לילית [Lilith]
* Satans Wife The Goddess Nature is War & Misery & Heroism a Miser
* Spiritual War
* 35 Israel deliverd from Egypt
* is Art deliverd from
* Nature & Imitation
* A Poet a Painter a Musician an Architect : the Man
* Or Woman who is not one of these is not a Christian
* 40 You must leave Fathers & Mothers & Houses & Lands if they stand in the way of Art
* The Eternal Body of Man is The IMAGINATION, that is God himself
* The Divine Body } ישע [Yeshua] JESUS we are his
* Members
* It manifests itself in his Works of Art (In Eternity All is Vision)
* 45 The True Christian Charity not dependent on Money (the lifes blood of Poor Families)
* that is on Caesar or Empire or Natural Religion
* Money, which is The Great Satan or Reason
* the Root of Good & Evil
* In The Accusation of Sin
* 50 Prayer is the Study of Art Praise is the Practise of Art
* Fasting &c. all relate to Art The outward Ceremony is Antichrist
* Where any view of Money exists Art cannot be carried on, but War only                                Read Matthew C X. 9 & 10v
* by pretences to the Two Impossibilities Chastity & Abstinence Gods of the Heathen
* He repented that he had made Adam
* 55 (of the Female, the Adamah)
* & it grieved him at his heart
* Art can never exist without
* Naked Beauty displayed
* The Gods of Greece & Egypt were Mathematical
* 60 Diagrams
* See Plato's
* Works
* Divine Union
* Deriding
* 65 And Denying Immediate
* Communion with God
* The Spoilers say
* Where are his Works
* That he did in the Wilderness
* 70 Lo what are these
* Whence came they
* These are not the Works
* Of Egypt nor Babylon
* Whose Gods are the Powers
* 75 Of this World. Goddess, Nature.
* Who first spoil & then destroy
* Imaginative Art
* For their Glory is
* War and Dominion
* 80 Empire against Art See Virgils Eneid.
* Lib. VI.v 848
* For every
* Pleasure
* Money
* 85 Is Useless
* There are States
* in which. all
* Visionary Men
* are accounted
* 90 Mad Men
* such are
* Greece & Rome
* Such is
* Empire
* 95 or Tax
* See Luke Ch 2.v l
* Jesus & his Apostles & Disciples were all Artists Their Works were destroyd by the                                Seven Angels of the Seven Churches in Asia Antichrist Science
* The unproductive Man is not a Christian much less the Destroyer
* The Old & New Testaments are the Great Code of Art
* 100SCIENCE is the Tree of DEATH
* ART is the Tree
* of LIFE
* GOD
* is JESUS
* 105The Whole Business of Man Is
* The Arts & All Things Common
* No Secre
* sy in Art
* What we call Antique Gems are the Gems of Aarons Breast Plate
* 110 Christianity is Art & not Money
* Money is its Curse
* Is not every Vice possible to Man
* described in the Bible openly
* All is not Sin that Satan calls so
* 115 all the Loves & Graces of Eternity
* Drawn & Engraved by William Blake. c. 1826-7

## Notes

* ↑ Below the plinth.
* ↑ Above the serpent's head on the left.
* ↑ Angled around the right arm of the left figure.
* ↑ Curved around the right arm of the central figure.
* ↑ Above the central figure.
* ↑ In an arc above and to the right of the central figure.
* ↑ Above the head of the serpent biting the central figure's left hip.
* ↑ Around the head and left side of the right figure.
* ↑ Horizontally in the top margin.
* ↑ Horizontally in the top margin.
* ↑ Vertically in the right margin, top to bottom.
* ↑ Signature on the plinth.