As in thir crime. The fallen angels catch the serpent form by contagion as if it were a disease. And on the seventh day they rested The seven days of creation of the fallen world are repeated. The inhabitants of the cities bless the seventh day, for on that day they stop shrinking. Then left a noisom body Life in this form is given a term of years.
Death becomes a part of the pattern of life in the fallen world.
The laws are seen as coming from an outside, higher authority. Since they are seen as God's laws, they are presumed to have universal application and authority. In this way, the net of religion entraps the citizen's of Urizen's world. The slave trade was at its height when Blake wrote The Book of Urizen , so calling the cities Africa would also suggest the enslavement of their inhabitants. The remaining sons Not all the sons of Urizen are captured in the net of religion.