# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 90

Written and etched 1804-1820. Source: Blake: The Complete Poetry & Prose (David. V. Erdman) In the internet: www.blakearchive.org
* 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