# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 88

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