# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 73

Written and etched 1804-1820. Source: Blake: The Complete Poetry & Prose (David. V. Erdman) In the internet: www.blakearchive.org
* PLATE 73
* Such are Cathedrons golden Halls: in the City of Golgonooza
* And Los's Furnaces howl loud; living: self-moving: lamenting
* With fury & despair, & they stretch from South to North
* Thro all the Four Points: Lo! the Labourers at the Furnaces
* 5 Rintrah & Palamabron, Theotormon & Bromion, loud labring
* With the innumerable multitudes of Golgonooza, round the Anvils
* Of Death. But how they came forth from the Furnaces & how long
* Vast & severe the anguish eer they knew their Father; were
* Long to tell & of the iron rollers, golden axle-trees & yokes
* 10 Of brass, iron chains & braces & the gold, silver & brass
* Mingled or separate: for swords; arrows; cannons; mortars
* The terrible ball: the wedge: the loud sounding hammer of destruction
* The sounding flail to thresh: the winnow: to winnow kingdoms
* The water wheel & mill of many innumerable wheels resistless
* 15 Over the Four fold Monarchy from Earth to the Mundane Shell.
* Perusing Albions Tomb in the starry characters of Og & Anak:
* To Create the lion & wolf the bear: the tyger & ounce:
* To Create the wooly lamb & downy fowl & scaly serpent
* The summer & winter: day & night: the sun & moon & stars
* 20 The tree: the plant: the flower: the rock: the stone: the metal:
* Of Vegetative Nature: by their hard restricting condensations.
* Where Luvahs World of Opakeness grew to a period: It
* Became a Limit, a Rocky hardness without form & void
* Accumulating without end: here Los. who is of the Elohim
* 25 Opens the Furnaces of affliction in the Emanation
* Fixing The Sexual into an ever-prolific Generation
* Naming the Limit of Opakeness Satan & the Limit of Contraction
* Adam, who is Peleg & Joktan: & Esau & Jacob: & Saul & David
* Voltaire insinuates that these Limits are the cruel work of God
* 30 Mocking the Remover of Limits & the Resurrection of the Dead
* Setting up Kings in wrath: in holiness of Natural Religion
* Which Los with his mighty Hammer demolishes time on time
* In miracles & wonders in the Four-fold Desart of Albion
* Permanently Creating to be in Time Reveald & Demolishd
* 35 Satan Cain Tubal Nimrod Pharoh Priam Bladud Belin
* Arthur Alfred the Norman Conqueror Richard John
* [Edward Henry Elizabeth James Charles William George]
* And all the Kings & Nobles of the Earth & all their Glories
* These are Created by Rahab & Tirzah in Ulro: but around
* These, to preserve them from Eternal Death Los Creates
* 40 Adam Noah Abraham Moses Samuel David Ezekiel
* [Pythagoras Socrates Euripedes Virgil Dante Milton]
* Dissipating the rocky forms of Death, by his thunderous Hammer
* As the Pilgrim passes while the Country permanent remains
* So Men pass on: but States remain permanent for ever
* The Spectres of the Dead howl round the porches of Los
* 45 In the terrible Family feuds of Albions cities & villages
* To devour the Body of Albion, hungring & thirsting & ravning
* The Sons of Los clothe them & feed, & provide houses & gardens
* And every Human Vegetated Form in its inward recesses
* Is a house of ple[as]antness & a garden of delight Built by the
* 50Sons & Daughters of Los in Bowlahoola & in Cathedron
* From London to York & Edinburgh the Furnaces rage terrible
* Primrose Hill is the mouth of the Furnace & the Iron Door;