# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 98

Written and etched 1804-1820. Source: Blake: The Complete Poetry & Prose (David. V. Erdman) In the internet: www.blakearchive.org
* PLATE 98
* Then each an Arrow flaming from his Quiver fitted carefully
* They drew fourfold the unreprovable String, bending thro the wide Heavens
* The horned Bow Fourfold, loud sounding flew the flaming Arrow fourfold
* Murmuring the Bow-string breathes with ardor. Clouds roll round the horns
* 5 Of the wide Bow, loud sounding Winds sport on the Mountains brows:
* The Druid Spectre was Annihilate loud thundring rejoicing terrific vanishing
* Fourfold Annihilation & at the clangor of the Arrows of Intellect
* The innumerable Chariots of the Almighty appeard in Heaven
* And Bacon & Newton & Locke, & Milton & Shakspear & Chaucer
* 10 A Sun of blood red wrath surrounding heaven on all sides around
* Glorious incompreh[en]sible by Mortal Man & each Chariot was Sexual Threefold
* And every Man stood Fourfold, each Four Faces had. One to the West
* One toward the East One to the South One to the North. the Horses Fourfold
* And the dim Chaos brightend beneath, above, around! Eyed as the Peacock
* 15 According to the Human Nerves of Sensation, the Four Rivers of the Water of Life
* South stood the Nerves of the Eye. East in Rivers of bliss the Nerves of the
* Expansive Nostrils West, flowd the Parent Sense the Tongue. North stood
* The labyrinthine Ear. Circumscribing & Circumcising the excrementitious
* Husk & Covering into Vacuum evaporating revealing the lineaments of Man
* 20 Driving outward the Body of Death in an Eternal Death & Resurrection
* Awaking it to Life among the Flowers of Beulah rejoicing in Unity
* In the Four Senses in the Outline the Circumference & Form, for ever
* In Forgiveness of Sins which is Self Annihilation. it is the Covenant of Jehovah
* The Four Living Creatures Chariots of Humanity Divine Incomprehensible
* 25 In beautiful Paradises expand These are the Four Rivers of Paradise
* And the Four Faces of Humanity fronting the Four Cardinal Points
* Of Heaven going forward forward irresistible from Eternity to Eternity
* And they conversed together in Visionary forms dramatic which bright
* Redounded from their Tongues in thunderous majesty, in Visions
* 30 In new Expanses, creating exemplars of Memory and of Intellect
* Creating Space, Creating Time according to the wonders Divine
* Of Human Imagination, throughout all the Three Regions immense
* Of Childhood, Manhood & Old Age[;] & the all tremendous unfathomable Non Ens
* Of Death was seen in regenerations terrific or complacent varying
* 35 According to the subject of discourse & every Word & Every Character
* Was Human according to the Expansion or Contraction, the Translucence or
* Opakeness of Nervous fibres such was the variation of Time & Space
* Which vary according as the Organs of Perception vary & they walked
* To & fro in Eternity as One Man reflecting each in each & clearly seen
* 40 And seeing: according to fitness & order. And I heard Jehovah speak
* Terrific from his Holy Place & saw the Words of the Mutual Covenant Divine
* On Chariots of gold & jewels with Living Creatures starry & flaming
* With every Colour, Lion, Tyger, Horse, Elephant, Eagle Dove, Fly, Worm,
* And the all wondrous Serpent clothed in gems & rich array Humanize
* 45 In the Forgiveness of Sins according to the Covenant of Jehovah. They Cry
* Where is the Covenant of Priam, the Moral Virtues of the Heathen
* Where is the Tree of Good & Evil that rooted beneath the cruel heel
* Of Albions Spectre the Patriarch Druid! where are all his Human Sacrifices
* For Sin in War & in the Druid Temples of the Accuser of Sin: beneath
* 50 The Oak Groves of Albion that coverd the whole Earth beneath his Spectre
* Where are the Kingdoms of the World & all their glory that grew on Desolation
* The Fruit of Albions Poverty Tree when the Triple Headed Gog-Magog Giant
* Of Albion Taxed the Nations into Desolation & then gave the Spectrous Oath
* Such is the Cry from all the Earth from the Living Creatures of the Earth
* 55 And from the great City of Golgonooza in the Shadowy Generation
* And from the Thirty-two Nations of the Earth among the Living Creatures