# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 74

Written and etched 1804-1820. Source: Blake: The Complete Poetry & Prose (David. V. Erdman) In the internet: www.blakearchive.org
* PLATE 74
* The Four Zoa's clouded rage; Urizen stood by Albion
* With Rintrah and Palamabron and Theotormon and Bromion
* These Four are Verulam & London & York & Edinburgh
* And the Four Zoa's are Urizen & Luvah & Tharmas & Urthona
* 5In opposition deadly, and their Wheels in poisonous
* And deadly stupor turn'd against each other loud & fierce
* Entering into the Reasoning Power, forsaking Imagination
* They became Spectres; & their Human Bodies were reposed
* In Beulah, by the Daughters of Beulah with tears & lamentations
* 10The Spectre is the Reasoning Power in Man; & when separated
* From Imagination, and closing itself as in steel, in a Ratio
* Of the Things of Memory. It thence frames Laws & Moralities
* To destroy Imagination! the Divine Body, by Martyrdoms & Wars
* Teach me O Holy Spirit the Testimony of Jesus! let me
* 15Comprehend wonderous things out of the Divine Law
* I behold Babylon in the opening Street of London, I behold
* Jerusalem in ruins wandering about from house to house
* This I behold the shudderings of death attend my steps
* I walk up and down in Six Thousand Years: their Events are present before me
* 20To tell how Los in grief & anger, whirling round his Hammer on high
* Drave the Sons & Daughters of Albion from their ancient mountains
* They became the Twelve Gods of Asia Opposing the Divine Vision
* The Sons of Albion are Twelve: the Sons of Jerusalem Sixteen
* I tell how Albions Sons by Harmonies of Concords & Discords
* 25Opposed to Melody, and by Lights & Shades, opposed to Outline
* And by Abstraction opposed to the Visions of Imagination
* By cruel Laws divided Sixteen into Twelve Divisions
* How Hyle roofd Los in Albions Cliffs by the Affections rent
* Asunder & opposed to Thought, to draw Jerusalems Sons
* 30Into the Vortex of his Wheels. therefore Hyle is called Gog
* Age after age drawing them away towards Babylon
* Babylon, the Rational Morality deluding to death the little ones
* In strong temptations of stolen beauty; I tell how Reuben slept
* On London Stone & the Daughters of Albion ran around admiring
* 35His awful beauty: with Moral Virtue the fair deciever; offspring
* Of Good & Evil, they divided him in love upon the Thames & sent
* Him over Europe in streams of gore out of Cathedrons Looms
* How Los drave them from Albion & they became Daughters of Canaan
* Hence Albion was calld the Canaanite & all his Giant Sons.
* 40Hence is my Theme. O Lord my Saviour open thou the Gates
* And I will lead forth thy Words, telling how the Daughters
* Cut the Fibres of Reuben, how he rolld apart & took Root
* In Bashan, terror-struck Albions Sons look toward Bashan
* They have divided Simeon he also rolld apart in blood
* 45 Over the Nations till he took Root beneath the shining Looms
* Of Albions Daughters in Philistea by the side of Amalek
* They have divided Levi: he hath shot out into Forty eight Roots
* Over the Land of Canaan: they have divided Judah
* He hath took Root in Hebron, in the Land of Hand & Hyle
* 50 Dan: Napthali: Gad: Asher: Issachar: Zebulun: roll apart
* From all the Nations of the Earth to dissipate into Non Entity
* I see a Feminine Form arise from the Four terrible Zoas
* Beautiful but terrible struggling to take a form of beauty
* Rooted in Shechem: this is Dinah, the youthful form of Erin
* 55 The Wound I see in South Molton S[t]reet & Stratford place
* Whence Joseph & Benjamin rolld apart away from the Nations
* In vain they rolld apart; they are fixd into the Land of Cabul