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| Мильтон, Поэма в 2 Книгах , пер. Д. Смирнов-Садовский |
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| Язык оригинала: английский. Название в оригинале: Milton. — Дата создания: ок. 1800—1808 (перевод). |
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MILTON t
a Poem in 2 Books
The Author & Printer W Blake 1804
To justify the Ways of God to Men
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Preface. t
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero. which all Men ought to contemn: are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible. but when the New Age is at leisure to Pronounce; all will be set right: & those Grand Works of the more ancient & consciously & professedly Inspired Men, will hold their proper rank, & the Daughters of Memory shall become the Daughters of Inspiration. Shakspeare & Milton were both curbd by the general malady & infection from the silly Greek & Latin slaves of the Sword.
Rouze up O Young Men of the New Age! set your foreheads against the ignorant Hirelings! For we have Hirelings in the Camp, the Court, & the University: who would if they could, for ever depress Mental & prolong Corporeal War. Painters! on you I call! Sculptors! Architects! Suffer not the fash [i] onable Fools to depress your powers by the prices they pretend to give for contemptible works or the expensive advertizing boasts that they make of such works; believe Christ & his Apostles that there is a Class of Men whose whole delight is in Destroying. We do not want either Greek or Roman Models if we are but just & true to our own Imaginations, those Worlds of Eternity in which we shall live for ever; in Jesus our Lord.
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Would to God that all the Lords people were Prophets.
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Then Los & Enitharmon knew that Satan is Urizen t Drawn down by Orc & the Shadowy Female into Generation Oft Enitharmon enterd weeping into the Space, there appearing An aged Woman raving along the Streets (the Space is named Canaan) then she returnd to Los weary frighted as from dreams5 The nature of a Female Space is this: it shrinks the Organs Of Life till they become Finite & Itself seems Infinite. t And Satan vibrated in the immensity of the Space! Limited To those without but Infinite to those within: it fell down and Became Canaan: closing Los from Eternity in Albions Cliffs10 A mighty Fiend against the Divine Humanity mustring to War Satan! Ah me! is gone to his own place, said Los! their God I will not worship in their Churches, nor King in their Theatres Elynittria! whence is this jealousy running along the mountains British Women were not Jealous when Greek & Roman were jealous 15 Every thing in Eternity shines by its own Internal light: but thou Darkenest every Internal light with the arrows of thy quiver Bound up in the borns of jealousy to a deadly fading Moon And Ocalythron binds the Sun into a Jealous Globe That every thing is fixd Opake without Internal light20 So Los lamented over Satan, who triumphant divided the Nations [ PLATE11 [12] ] He set his face against Jerusalem to destroy the Eon of Albion But Los hid Enitharmon from the sight of all these things, Upon the Thames whose lulling harmony repos'd her soul: Where Beulah lovely terminates in rocky Albion: Terminating in Hyde Park, on Tyburns awful brook.5 And the Mills of Satan were separated into a moony Space Among the rocks of Albions Temples, and Satans Druid sons Offer the Human Victims throughout all the Earth, and Albions Dread Tomb immortal on his Rock, overshadowd the whole Earth: Where Satan making to himself Laws from his own identity. 10 10 Compell'd others to serve him in moral gratitude & submission Being call'd God: setting himself above all that is called God. And all the Spectres of the Dead calling themselves Sons of God In his Synagogues worship Satan under the Unutterable Name 105 And it was enquir'd: Why in a Great Solemn Assembly15 The Innocent should be condemn'd for the Guilty? Then an Eternal rose Saying. If the Guilty should be condemn'd, he must be an Eternal Death And one must die for another throughout all Eternity. Satan is fall'n from his station & never can be redeem'd But must be new created continually moment by moment20 And therefore the Class of Satan shall be calld the Elect, & those Of Rintrah. the Reprobate, & those of Palamabron the Redeem'd For he is redeem'd from Satans Law, the wrath falling on Rintrah, And therefore Palamabron dared not to call a solemn Assembly Till Satan had assum'd Rintrahs wrath in the day of mourning25 In a feminine delusion of false pride self-deciev'd. So spake the Eternal and confirm'd it with a thunderous oath But when Leutha (a Daughter of Beulah) beheld Satans condemnation She down descended into the midst of the Great Solemn Assembly Offering herself a Ransom for Satan, taking on her, his Sin.30 Mark well my words. they are of your eternal salvation! And Leutha stood glowing with varying colours immortal, heart-piercing And lovely: & her moth-like elegance shone over the Assembly At length standing upon the golden floor of Palamabron She spake: I am the Author of this Sin! by my suggestion35 My Parent power Satan has committed this transgression. I loved Palamabron & I sought to approach his Tent, But beautiful Elynittria with her silver arrows repelld me. [ PLATE12 [13] ] For her light is terrible to me. I fade before her immortal beauty. O wherefore doth a Dragon-form forth issue from my limbs To sieze her new born son? Ah me! the wretched Leutha! This to prevent, entering the doors of Satans brain night after night Like sweet perfumes I stupified the masculine perceptions5 And kept only the feminine awake, hence rose his soft Delusory love to Palamabron: admiration join'd with envy Cupidity unconquerable! my fault, when at noon of day The Horses of Palamabron call'd for rest and pleasant death: I sprang out of the breast of Satan, over the Harrow beaming10 In all my beauty! that I might unloose the flaming steeds As Elynittria use'd to do; but too well those living creatures Knew that I was not Elynittria, and they brake the traces But me, the servants of the Harrow saw not: but as a bow Of varying colours on the hills; terribly rag'd the horses.15 106 Satan astonishd, and with power above his own controll Compell'd the Gnomes to curb the horses, & to throw banks of sand Around the fiery flaming Harrow in labyrinthine forms. And brooks between to intersect the meadows in their course. The Harrow cast thick flames: Jehovah thunderd above:20 Chaos & ancient night fled from beneath the fiery Harrow: The Harrow cast thick flames & orb'd us round in concave fires A Hell of our own making. see, its flames still gird me round. Jehovah thunder'd above! Satan in pride of heart Drove the fierce Harrow among the constellations of Jehovah25 Drawing a third part in the fires as stubble north & south To devour Albion and Jerusalem the Emanation of Albion Driving the Harrow in Pitys paths. 'twas then, with our dark fires Which now gird round us (O eternal torment) I form'd the Serpent Of precious stones & gold turn'd poisons on the sultry wastes 30 The Gnomes in all that day spar'd not; they curs'd Satan bitterly. To do unkind things in kindness! with power armd, to say The most irritating things in the midst of tears and love These are the stings of the Serpent! thus did we by them; till thus They in return retaliated, and the Living Creatures maddend.35 The Gnomes labourd. I weeping hid in Satans inmost brain; But when the Gnomes refus'd to labour more, with blandishments I came forth from the head of Satan! back the Gnomes recoil'd. And call'd me Sin, and for a sign portentous held me. Soon Day sunk and Palamabron return'd, trembling I hid myself40 In Satans inmost Palace of his nervous fine wrought Brain: For Elynittria met Satan with all her singing women. Terrific in their joy & pouring wine of wildest power They gave Satan their wine: indignant at the burning wrath. Wild with prophetic fury his former life became like a dream45 Cloth'd in the Serpents folds, in selfish holiness demanding purity Being Most impure, self-condemn'd to eternal tears, he drove Me from his inmost Brain & the doors clos'd with thunders sound O Divine Vision who didst create the Female: to repose The Sleepers of Beulah: pity the repentant Leutha. My50 [ PLATE13 [14] ] Sick Couch bears the dark shades of Eternal Death infolding The Spectre of Satan. he furious refuses to repose in sleep I humbly bow in all my Sin before the Throne Divine. Not so the Sick-one; Alas what shall be done him to restore? Who calls the Individual Law, Holy: and despises the Saviour.5 Glorying to involve Albions Body in fires of eternal War— Now Leutha ceas'd: tears flow'd: but the Divine Pity), supported her. All is my fault! We are the Spectre of Luvah the murderer. Of Albion: O Vala! O Luvah! O Albion! O lovely Jerusalem 107 The Sin was begun in Eternity, and will not rest to Eternity10 Till two Eternitys meet together, Ah! lost! lost! lost! for ever! So Leutha spoke. But when she saw that Enitharmon had Created a New Space to protect Satan from punishment; She fled to Enitharmons Tent & hid herself. Loud raging Thundered the Assembly dark & clouded, and they ratify'd15 The kind decision of Enitharmon & gave a Time to the Space, Even Six Thousand years; and sent Lucifer for its Guard. But Lucifer refus'd to die & in pride he forsook his charge And they elected Molech, and when Molech was impatient The Divine hand found the Two Limits: first of Opacity, then of Contraction20 Opacity was named Satan, Contraction was named Adam. Triple Elohim came: Elohim wearied fainted: they elected Shaddai. Shaddai angry, Pahad descended: Pahad terrified, they sent Jehovah And Jehovah was leprous; loud he call'd, stretching his hand to Eternity For then the Body of Death was perfected in hypocritic holiness, 25 Around the Lamb, a Female Tabernacle woven in Cathedrons Looms He died as a Reprobate. he was Punish'd as a Transgressor! Glory! Glory! Glory! to the Holy Lamb of God I touch the heavens as an instrument to glorify the Lord! The Elect shall meet the Redeem'd. on Albions rocks they shall meet 30 Astonish'd at the Transgressor, in him beholding the Saviour. And the Elect shall say to the Redeemd. We behold it is of Divine Mercy alone! of Free Gift and Election that we live. Our Virtues & Cruel Goodnesses, have deserv'd Eternal Death. Thus they weep upon the fatal Brook of Albions River.35 But Elynittria met Leutha in the place where she was hidden. And threw aside her arrows, and laid down her sounding Bow; She sooth'd her with soft words & brought her to Palamabrons bed In moments new created for delusion, interwoven round about, In dreams she bore the shadowy Spectre of Sleep, & namd him Death.40 In dreams she bore Rahab the mother of Tirzah & her sisters In Lambeths vales; in Cambridge & in Oxford, places of Thought Intricate labyrinths of Times and Spaces unknown, that Leutha lived In Palamabrons Tent, and Oothoon was her charming guard. The Bard ceas'd. All consider'd and a loud resounding murmur45 Continu'd round the Halls; and much they question'd the immortal Loud voicd Bard. and many condemn'd the high tone'd Song Saying Pity and Love are too venerable for the imputation Of Guilt. Others said. It it is true! if the acts have been perform'd Let the Bard himself witness. Where hadst thou this terrible Song 50 The Bard replied. I am Inspired! I know it is Truth! for I Sing 108 [ PLATE14 [15] ] According to the inspiration of the Poetic Genius Who is the eternal all-protecting Divine Humanity To whom be Glory & Power & Dominion Evermore Amen Then there was great murmuring in the Heavens of Albion Concerning Generation & the Vegetative power & concerning 5 The Lamb the Saviour: Albion trembled to Italy Greece & Egypt To Tartary & Hindostan & China & to Great America Shaking the roots & fast foundations of the Earth in doubtfulness The loud voic'd Bard terrify'd took refuge in Miltons bosom Then Milton rose up from the heavens of Albion ardorous!10 The whole Assembly wept prophetic, seeing in Miltons face And in his lineaments divine the shades of Death & Ulro He took off the robe of the promise, & ungirded himself from the oath of God And Milton said, I go to Eternal Death! The Nations still Follow after the detestable Gods of Priam; in pomp15 Of warlike selfhood, contradicting and blaspheming. When will the Resurrection come; to deliver the sleeping body From corruptibility: O when Lord Jesus wilt thou come? Tarry no longer; for my soul lies at the gates of death. I will arise and look forth for the morning of the grave.20 I will go down to the sepulcher to see if morning breaks! I will go down to self annihilation and eternal death, Lest the Last Judgment come & find me unannihilate And I be siez'd & giv'n into the hands of my own Selfhood The Lamb of God is seen thro' mists & shadows, hov'ring25 Over the sepulchers in clouds of Jehovah & winds of Elohim A disk of blood, distant; & heav'ns & earth's roll dark between What do I here before the Judgment? without my Emanation? With the daughters of memory, & not with the daughters of inspiration I in my Selfhood am that Satan: I am that Evil One!30 He is my Spectre! in my obedience to loose him from my Hells To claim the Hells, my Furnaces, I go to Eternal Death. And Milton said. I go to Eternal Death! Eternity shudder'd For he took the outside course, among the graves of the dead A mournful shade. Eternity shudderd at the image of eternal death 35 Then on the verge of Beulah he beheld his own Shadow; A mournful form double; hermaphroditic: male & female In one wonderful body. and he enterd into it In direful pain for the dread shadow, twenty-seven-fold 109 Reachd to the depths of direst Hell, & thence to Albions land: 40 Which is this earth of vegetation on which now I write, The Seven Angels of the Presence wept over Miltons Shadow!
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As when a man dreams, he reflects not that his body sleeps, Else he would wake; so seem'd he entering his Shadow: but With him the Spirits of the Seven Angels of the Presence Entering; they gave him still perceptions of his Sleeping Body; Which now arose and walk'd with them in Eden, as an Eighth5 Image Divine tho' darken'd; and tho walking as one walks In sleep; and the Seven comforted and supported him. Like as a Polypus that vegetates beneath the deep! They saw his Shadow vegetated underneath the Couch Of death: for when he enterd into his Shadow: Himself:10 His real and immortal Self: was as appeard to those Who dwell in immortality, as One sleeping on a couch Of gold; and those in immortality gave forth their Emanations Like Females of sweet beauty, to guard round him & to feed His lips with food of Eden in his cold and dim repose!15 But to himself he seemd a wanderer lost in dreary night. Onwards his Shadow kept its course among the Spectres; call'd Satan, but swift as lightning passing them, startled the shades Of Hell beheld him in a trail of light as of a comet That travels into Chaos: so Milton went guarded within.20 The nature of infinity is this: That every thing has its Own Vortex; and when once a traveller thro Eternity. Has passd that Vortex, he percieves it roll backward behind His path, into a globe itself infolding; like a sun: Or like a moon, or like a universe of starry majesty,25 While he keeps onwards in his wondrous journey on the earth Or like a human form, a friend with whom he livd benevolent. As the eye of man views both the cast & west encompassing Its vortex; and the north & south, with all their starry host; Also the rising sun & setting moon he views surrounding30 His corn-fields and his valleys of five hundred acres square. Thus is the earth one infinite plane, and not as apparent To the weak traveller confin'd beneath the moony shade. Thus is the heaven a vortex passd already, and the earth A vortex not yet pass'd by the traveller thro' Eternity.35 First Milton saw Albion upon the Rock of Ages, Deadly pale outstretchd and snowy cold, storm coverd; A Giant form of perfect beauty outstretchd on the rock 110 In solemn death: the Sea of Time & Space thunderd aloud Against the rock, which was inwrapped with the weeds of death40 Hovering over the cold bosom, in its vortex Milton bent down To the bosom of death, what was underneath soon seemd above. A cloudy heaven mingled with stormy seas in loudest ruin; But as a wintry globe descends precipitant thro' Beulah bursting, With thunders loud and terrible: so Miltons shadow fell45 Precipitant loud thundring into the Sea of Time & Space. Then first I saw him in the Zenith as a falling star, Descending perpendicular, swift as the swallow or swift; And on my left foot falling on the tarsus, enterd there; But from my left foot a black cloud redounding spread over Europe. 50 Then Milton knew that the Three Heavens of Beulah were beheld By him on earth in his bright pilgrimage of sixty years
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In those three females whom his Wives, & those three whom his Daughters Had represented and containd, that they might be resum'd By giving up of Selfhood: & they distant view'd his journey In their eternal spheres, now Human, tho' their Bodies remain clos'd In the dark Ulro till the Judgment: also Milton knew: they and5 Himself was Human, tho' now wandering thro Death's Vale In conflict with those Female forms, which in blood & jealousy Surrounded him, dividing & uniting without end or number. He saw the Cruelties of Ulro, and he wrote them down In iron tablets: and his Wives & Daughters names were these 10 Rahab and Tirzah, & Milcah & Malah & Noah & Hoglah, They sat rangd round him as the rocks of Horeb round the land Of Canaan: and they wrote in thunder smoke and fire His dictate; and his body was the Rock Sinai; that body, Which was on earth born to corruption: & the six Females15 Are Hor & Peor & Bashan & Abarim & Lebanon & Hermon Seven rocky masses terrible in the Desarts of Midian. But Miltons Human Shadow continu'd journeying above The rocky masses of The Mundane Shell; in the Lands Of Edom & Aram & Moab & Midian & Amalek.20 The Mundane Shell, is a vast Concave Earth: an immense Hardend shadow of all things upon our Vegetated Earth Enlarg'd into dimension & deform'd into indefinite space, In Twenty-seven Heavens and all their Hells; with Chaos And Ancient Night; & Purgatory. It is a cavernous Earth25 111 Of labyrinthine intricacy, twenty-seven folds of opakeness And finishes where the lark mounts; here Milton journeyed In that Region calld Midian among the Rocks of Horeb For travellers from Eternity. pass outward to Satans seat, But travellers to Eternity. pass inward to Golgonooza.30 Los the Vehicular terror beheld him, & divine Enitharmon Call'd all her daughters, Saying. Surely to unloose my bond Is this Man come! Satan shall be unloosd upon Albion Los heard in terror Enitharmons words: in fibrous strength His limbs shot forth like roots of trees against the forward path 35 Of Miltons journey. Urizen beheld the immortal Man,
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And Tharmas Demon of the Waters, & Orc, who is Luvah t The Shadowy Female seeing Milton, howl'd in her lamentation Over the Deeps. outstretching her Twenty seven Heavens over Albion And thus the Shadowy Female howls in articulate howlings I will lament over Milton in the lamentations of the afflicted5 My Garments shall be woven of sighs & heart broken lamentations The misery of unhappy Families shall be drawn out into its border Wrought with the needle with dire sufferings poverty pain & woe Along the rocky Island & thence throughout the whole Earth There shall be the sick Father & his starving Family! there 10 The Prisoner in the stone Dungeon & the Slave at the Mill I will have Writings written all over it in Human Words That every Infant that is born upon the Earth shall read And get by rote as a hard task of a life of sixty years I will have Kings inwoven upon it, & Councellors & Mighty Men15 The Famine shall clasp it together with buckles & Clasps And the Pestilence shall be its fringe & the War its girdle To divide into Rahab & Tirzah that Milton may come to our tents For I will put on the Human Form & take the Image of God Even Pity & Humanity but my Clothing shall be Cruelty20 And I will put on Holiness as a breast & as a helmet And all my ornaments shall be of the gold of broken hearts And the precious stones of anxiety & care & desperation & death And repentance for sin & sorrow & punishment & fear To defend me from thy terrors O Orc! my only beloved!25 Orc answerd. Take not the Human Form O loveliest. Take not Terror upon thee! Behold how I am & tremble lest thou also Consume in my Consummation; but thou maist take a Form Female & lovely, that cannot consume in Mans consummation Wherefore dost thou Create & Weave this Satan for a Covering 30 When thou attemptest to put on the Human Form, my wrath 112 Burns to the top of heaven against thee in Jealousy & Fear. Then I rend thee asunder, then I howl over thy clay & ashes When wilt thou put on the Female Form as in times of old With a Garment of Pity & Compassion like the Garment of God 35 His garments are long sufferings for the Children of Men Jerusalem is his Garment & not thy Covering Cherub O lovely Shadow of my delight who wanderest seeking for the prey. So spoke Orc when Oothoon & Leutha hoverd over his Couch Of fire in interchange of Beauty & Perfection in the darkness 40 Opening interiorly into Jerusalem & Babylon shining glorious In the Shadowy Females bosom. Jealous her darkness grew: Howlings filld all the desolate places in accusations of Sin In Female beauty shining in the unformd void & Orc in vain Stretch'd out his bands of fire, & wooed: they triumph in his pain45 Thus darkend the Shadowy Female tenfold & Orc tenfold Glowd on his rocky Couch against the darkness: loud thunders Told of the enormous conflict Earthquake beneath: around; Rent the Immortal Females, limb from limb & joint from joint And moved the fast foundations of the Earth to wake the Dead50 Urizen emerged from his Rocky Form & from his Snows, [ PLATE19 [21] ] And he also darkend his brows: freezing dark rocks between The footsteps. and infixing deep the feet in marble beds: That Milton labourd with his journey, & his feet bled sore Upon the clay now chang'd to marble; also Urizen rose, And met him on the shores of Arnon; & by the streams of the brooks 5 Silent they met, and silent strove among the streams, of Arnon Even to Mahanaim, when with cold hand Urizen stoop'd down And took up water from the river Jordan: pouring on To Miltons brain the icy fluid from his broad cold palm. But Milton took of the red clay of Succoth, moulding it with care 10 Between his palms: and filling up the furrows of many years Beginning at the feet of Urizen, and on the bones Creating new flesh on the Demon cold, and building him, As with new clay a Human form in the Valley of Beth Peor. Four Universes round the Mundane Egg remain Chaotic15 One to the North, named Urthona: One to the South, named Urizen: One to the East, named Luvah: One to the West, named Tharmas They are the Four Zoa's that stood around the Throne Divine! But when Luvah assum'd the World of Urizen to the South: And Albion was slain upon his mountains, & in his tent;20 All fell towards the Center in dire ruin, sinking down. And in the South remains a burning fire; in the East a void. 113 In the West, a world of raging waters; in the North a solid, Unfathomable! without end. But in the midst of these, Is built eternally the Universe of Los and Enitharmon:25 Towards which Milton went, but Urizen oppos'd his path. The Man and Demon strove many periods. Rahab beheld Standing on Carmel; Rahab and Tirzah trembled to behold The enormous strife. one giving life, the other giving death To his adversary. and they sent forth all their sons & daughters 30 In all their beauty to entice Milton across the river, The Twofold form Hermaphroditic: and the Double-sexed; The Female-male & the Male-female, self-dividing stood Before him in their beauty, & in cruelties of holiness! Shining in darkness, glorious upon the deeps of Entuthon.35 Saying. Come thou to Ephraim! behold the Kings of Canaan! The beautiful Amalekites, behold the fires of youth Bound with the Chain of jealousy by Los & Enitharmon; The banks of Cam: cold learnings streams: Londons dark-frowning towers; Lament upon the winds of Europe in Rephaims Vale.40 Because Ahania rent apart into a desolate night, Laments! & Enion wanders like a weeping inarticulate voice And Vala labours for her bread & water among the Furnaces Therefore bright Tirzah triumphs: putting on all beauty. And all perfection, in her cruel sports among the Victims,45 Come bring with thee Jerusalem with songs on the Grecian Lyre! In Natural Religion! in experiments on Men, Let her be Offerd up to Holiness! Tirzah numbers her; She numbers with her fingers every fibre ere it grow; Where is the Lamb of God? where is the promise of his coming?50 Her shadowy Sisters form the bones, even the bones of Horeb: Around the marrow! and the orbed scull around the brain! His Images are born for War! for Sacrifice to Tirzah! To Natural Religion! to Tirzah the Daughter of Rahab the Holy! She ties the knot of nervous fibres, into a white brain!55 She ties the knot of bloody veins, into a red hot heart! Within her bosom Albion lies embalmd, never to awake Hand is become a rock! Sinai & Horeb, is Hyle & Coban: t Scofield is bound in iron armour before Reubens Gate! She ties the knot of milky seed into two lovely Heavens,60
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Two yet but one: each in the other sweet reflected! these Are our Three Heavens beneath the shades of Beulah, land of rest! Come then to Ephraim & Manasseh O beloved-one! Come to my ivory palaces O beloved of thy mother! 114 And let us bind thee in the bands of War & be thou King5 Of Canaan and reign in Hazor where the Twelve Tribes meet. So spoke they as in one voice! Silent Milton stood before The darkend Urizen; as the sculptor silent stands before His forming image; he walks round it patient labouring. Thus Milton stood forming bright Urizen, while his Mortal part10 Sat frozen in the rock of Horeb: and his Redeemed portion, Thus form'd the Clay of Urizen; but within that portion His real Human walkd above in power and majesty Tho darkend; and the Seven Angels of the Presence attended him. O how can I with my gross tongue that cleaveth to the dust,15 Tell of the Four-fold Man, in starry numbers fitly orderd Or how can I with my cold hand of clay! But thou O Lord Do with me as thou wilt! for I am nothing, and vanity. If thou chuse to elect a worm, it shall remove the mountains. For that portion namd the Elect: the Spectrous body of Milton:20 Redounding from my left foot into Los's Mundane space, Brooded over his Body in Horeb against the Resurrection Preparing it for the Great Consummation; red the Cherub on Sinai Glow'd; but in terrors folded round his clouds of blood. Now Albions sleeping Humanity began to turn upon his Couch;25 Feeling the electric flame of Miltons awful precipitate descent. Seest thou the little winged fly, smaller than a grain of sand? It has a heart like thee; a brain open to heaven & hell, Withinside wondrous & expansive; its gates are not clos'd, I hope thine are not: hence it clothes itself in rich array;30 Hence thou art cloth'd with human beauty O thou mortal man. Seek not thy heavenly father then beyond the skies: There Chaos dwells & ancient Night & Og & Anak old: For every human heart has gates of brass & bars of adamant, Which few dare unbar because dread Og & Anak guard the gates 35 Terrific! and each mortal brain is walld and moated round Within: and Og & Anak watch here; here is the Seat Of Satan in its Webs; for in brain and heart and loins Gates open behind Satans Seat to the City of Golgonooza Which is the spiritual fourfold London, in the loins of Albion40 Thus Milton fell thro Albions heart, travelling outside of Humanity Beyond the Stars in Chaos in Caverns of the Mundane Shell. But many of the Eternals rose up from eternal tables Drunk with the Spirit, burning round the Couch of death they stood Looking down into Beulah: wrathful, fill'd with rage!45 They rend the heavens round the Watchers in a fiery circle: And round the Shadowy Eighth: the Eight close up the Couch 115 Into a tabernacle, and flee with cries down to the Deeps: Where Los opens his three wide gates, surrounded by raging fires! They soon find their own place & join the Watchers of the Ulro. 50 Los saw them and a cold pale horror coverd o'er his limbs Pondering he knew that Rintrah & Palamabron might depart: Even as Reuben & as Gad; gave up himself to tears. He sat down on his anvil-stock; and leand upon the trough. Looking into the black water, mingling it with tears.55 At last when desperation almost tore his heart in twain He recollected an old Prophecy in Eden recorded, And often sung to the loud harp at the immortal feasts That Milton of the Land of Albion should up ascend Forwards from Ulro from the Vale of Felpham; and set free60 Orc from his Chain of Jealousy, he started at the thought [ PLATE21 [23] ] And down descended into Udan-Adan; it was night: And Satan sat sleeping upon his Couch in Udan-Adan: His Spectre slept, his Shadow woke; when one sleeps th'other wakes But Milton entering my Foot; I saw in the nether Regions of the Imagination; also all men on Earth,5 And all in Heaven, saw in the nether regions of the Imagination In Ulro beneath Beulah, the vast breach of Miltons descent. But I knew not that it was Milton, for man cannot know What passes in his members till periods of Space & Time Reveal the secrets of Eternity: for more extensive10 Than any other earthly things, are Mans earthly lineaments. And all this Vegetable World appeard on my left Foot, As a bright sandal formd immortal of precious stones & gold: I stooped down & bound it on to walk forward thro' Eternity. There is in Eden a sweet River, of milk & liquid pearl,15 Namd Ololon; on whose mild banks dwelt those who Milton drove Down into Ulro: and they wept in long resounding song For seven days of eternity, and the rivers living banks The mountains wailld! & every plant that grew, in solemn sighs lamented. When Luvahs bulls each morning drag the sulphur Sun out of the Deep20 Harnessd with starry harness black & shining kept by black slaves That work all night at the starry harness. Strong and vigorous They drag the unwilling Orb: at this time all the Family Of Eden heard the lamentation, and Providence began. But when the clarions of day sounded they drownd the lamentations 25 116 And when night came all was silent in Ololon: & all refusd to lament In the still night fearing lest they should others molest. Seven mornings Los heard them, as the poor bird within the shell Hears its impatient parent bird; and Enitharmon heard them: But saw them not, for the blue Mundane Shell inclosd them in.30 And they lamented that they had in wrath & fury & fire Driven Milton into the Ulro; for now they knew too late That it was Milton the Awakener: they had not heard the Bard, Whose song calld Milton to the attempt; and Los heard these laments. He heard them call in prayer all the Divine Family;35 And he beheld the Cloud of Milton stretching over Europe. But all the Family Divine collected as Four Suns In the Four Points of heaven East, West & North & South Enlarging and enlarging till their Disks approachd each other; And when they touch'd closed together Southward in One Sun40 Over Ololon: and as One Man, who weeps over his brother, In a dark tomb, so all the Family Divine. wept over Ololon. Saying, Milton goes to Eternal Death! so saying, they groan'd in spirit And were troubled! and again the Divine Family groaned in spirit! And Ololon said, Let us descend also, and let us give45 Ourselves to death in Ulro among the Transgressors. Is Virtue a Punisher? O no! how is this wondrous thing? This World beneath, unseen before: this refuge from the wars Of Great Eternity! unnatural refuge! unknown by us till now! Or are these the pangs of repentance? let us enter into them50 Then the Divine Family said. Six Thousand Years are now Accomplish'd in this World of Sorrow; Miltons Angel knew The Universal Dictate; and you also feel this Dictate. And now you know this World of Sorrow, and feel Pity. Obey The Dictate! Watch over this World, and with your brooding wings, 55 Renew it to Eternal Life: Lo! I am with you alway But you cannot renew Milton he goes to Eternal Death So spake the Family Divine as One Man even Jesus Uniting in One with Ololon & the appearance of One Man Jesus the Saviour appeard coming in the Clouds of Ololon!60 [ PLATE22 [24] ] Tho driven away with the Seven Starry Ones into the Ulro Yet the Divine Vision remains Every-where For-ever. Amen. And Ololon lamented for Milton with a great lamentation. While Los heard indistinct in fear, what time I bound my sandals On; to walk forward thro' Eternity, Los descended to me:5 And Los behind me stood; a terrible flaming Sun: just close 117 Behind my back; I turned round in terror, and behold. Los stood in that fierce glowing fire; & he also stoop'd down And bound my sandals on in Udan-Adan; trembling I stood Exceedingly with fear & terror, standing in the Vale10 Of Lambeth: but he kissed me and wishd me health. And I became One Man with him arising in my strength: Twas too late now to recede. Los had enterd into my soul: His terrors now posses'd me whole! I arose in fury & strength. I am that Shadowy Prophet who Six Thousand Years ago15 Fell from my station in the Eternal bosom. Six Thousand Years Are finishd. I return! both Time & Space obey my will. I in Six Thousand Years walk up and down: for not one Moment Of Time is lost, nor one Event of Space unpermanent But all remain: every fabric of Six Thousand Years20 Remains permanent: tho' on the Earth where Satan Fell, and was cut off all things vanish & are seen no more They vanish not from me & mine, we guard them first & last The generations of men run on in the tide of Time But leave their destind lineaments permanent for ever & ever. 25 So spoke Los as we went along to his supreme abode. Rintrah and Palamabron met us at the Gate of Golgonooza Clouded with discontent. & brooding in their minds terrible things They said. O Father most beloved! O merciful Parent! Pitying and permitting evil, tho strong & mighty to destroy. 30 Whence is this Shadow terrible? wherefore dost thou refuse To throw him into the Furnaces! knowest thou not that he Will unchain Orc? & let loose Satan, Og, Sihon & Anak, Upon the Body of Albion? for this he is come! behold it written Upon his fibrous left Foot black! most dismal to our eyes t35 The Shadowy Female shudders thro' heaven in torment inexpressible! And all the Daughters of Los prophetic wail: yet in deceit, They weave a new Religion from new Jealousy of Theotormon! Miltons Religion is the cause: there is no end to destruction! Seeing the Churches at their Period in terror & despair:40 Rahab created Voltaire; Tirzah created Rousseau; Asserting the Self-righteousness against the Universal Saviour, Mocking the Confessors & Martyrs, claiming Self-righteousness; With cruel Virtue: making War upon the Lambs Redeemed; To perpetuate War & Glory. to perpetuate the Laws of Sin:45 They perverted Swedenborgs Visions in Beulah & in Ulro; To destroy Jerusalem as a Harlot & her Sons as Reprobates; To raise up Mystery the Virgin Harlot Mother of War, Babylon the Great, the Abomination of Desolation! O Swedenborg! strongest of men, the Samson shorn by the Churches! 50 118 Shewing the Transgresors in Hell, the proud Warriors in Heaven: Heaven as a Punisher & Hell as One under Punishment: With Laws from Plato & his Greeks to renew the Trojan Gods, In Albion; & to deny the value of the Saviours blood. But then I rais'd up Whitefield, Palamabron raisd up Westley,55 And these are the cries of the Churches before the two Witnesses t Faith in God the dear Saviour who took on the likeness of men: Becoming obedient to death, even the death of the Cross The Witnesses lie dead in the Street of the Great City No Faith is in all the Earth: the Book of God is trodden under Foot:60 He sent his two Servants Whitefield & Westley; were they Prophets Or were they Idiots or Madmen? shew us Miracles!
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Can you have greater Miracles than these? Men who devote Their lifes whole comfort to intire scorn & injury & death Awake thou sleeper on the Rock of Eternity Albion awake The trumpet of Judgment hath twice sounded: all Nations are awake But thou art still heavy and dull: Awake Albion awake! t5 Lo Orc arises on the Atlantic. Lo his blood and fire Glow on Americas shore: Albion turns upon his Couch He listens to the sounds of War, astonishd and confounded: He weeps into the Atlantic deep, yet still in dismal dreams Unwakend! and the Covering Cherub advances from the East:10 How long shall we lay dead in the Street of the great City How long beneath the Covering Cherub give our Emanations Milton will utterly consume us & thee our beloved Father He hath enterd into the Covering Cherub, becoming one with Albions dread Sons, Hand, Hyle & Coban surround him as15 A girdle; Gwendolen & Conwenna as a garment woven Of War & Religion; let us descend & bring him chained To Bowlahoola O father most beloved! O mild Parent! Cruel in thy mildness, pitying and permitting evil Tho strong and mighty to destroy, O Los our beloved Father!20 Like the black storm, coming out of Chaos, beyond the stars: It issues thro the dark & intricate caves of the Mundane Shell Passing the planetary visions, & the well adorned Firmament The Sun rolls into Chaos & the Stars into the Desarts; And then the storms become visible, audible & terrible,25 Covering the light of day, & rolling down upon the mountains, Deluge all the country round. Such is a vision of Los; When Rintrah & Palamabron spake; and such his stormy face Appeard, as does the face of heaven, when coverd with thick storms Pitying and loving tho in frowns of terrible perturbation t30 119 But Los dispersd the clouds even as the strong winds of Jehovah, And Los thus spoke. O noble Sons, be patient yet a little I have embracd the falling Death, he is become One with me O Sons we live not by wrath. by mercy alone we live! I recollect an old Prophecy in Eden recorded in gold; and oft35 Sung to the harp: That Milton of the land of Albion. Should up ascend forward from Felphams Vale & break the Chain Of jealousy from all its roots; be patient therefore O my Sons These lovely Females form sweet night and silence and secret Obscurities to bide from Satans Watch-Fiends. Human loves40 And graces; lest they write them in their Books, & in the Scroll Of mortal life, to condemn the accused: who at Satans Bar Tremble in Spectrous Bodies continually day and night While on the Earth they live in sorrowful Vegetations O when shall we tread our Wine-presses in heaven; and Reap45 Our wheat with shoutings of joy, and leave the Earth in peace Remember how Calvin and Luther in fury premature Sow'd War and stern division between Papists & Protestants Let it not be so now! O go not forth in Martyrdoms & Wars We were plac'd here by the Universal Brotherhood & Mercy50 With powers fitted to circumscribe this dark Satanic death And that the Seven Eyes of God may have space for Redemption. But how this is as yet we know not, and we cannot know; Till Albion is arisen; then patient wait a little while, Six Thousand years are passd away the end approaches fast;55 This mighty one is come from Eden, he is of the Elect, Who died from Earth & he is returnd before the Judgment. This thing Was never known that one of the holy dead should willing return Then patient wait a little while till the Last Vintage is over: Till we have quenchd the Sun of Salah in the Lake of Udan Adan60 O my dear Sons! leave not your Father, as your brethren left me Twelve Sons successive fled away in that thousand years of sorrow
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Of Palamabrons Harrow, & of Rintrahs wrath & fury: Reuben & Manazzoth & Gad & Simeon & Levi, And Ephraim & Judah were Generated, because They left me, wandering with Tirzah: Enitharmon wept One thousand years, and all the Earth was in a watry deluge5 We calld him Menassheh because of the Generations of Tirzah Because of Satan: & the Seven Eyes of God continually Guard round them, but I the Fourth Zoa am also set The Watchman of Eternity, the Three are not! & I am preserved Still my four mighty ones are left to me in Golgonooza10 Still Rintrah fierce, and Palamabron mild & piteous Theotormon filld with care, Bromion loving Science 120 You O my Sons still guard round Los. O wander not & leave me Rintrah, thou well rememberest when Amalek & Canaan Fled with their Sister Moab into the abhorred Void15 They became Nations in our sight beneath the hands of Tirzah. And Palamabron thou rememberest when Joseph an infant; Stolen from his nurses cradle wrapd in needle-work Of emblematic texture, was sold to the Amalekite, Who carried him down into Egypt where Ephraim & Menassheh20 Gatherd my Sons together in the Sands of Midian And if you also flee away and leave your Fathers side, Following Milton into Ulro, altho your power is great Surely you also shall become poor mortal vegetations Beneath the Moon of Ulro: pity then your Fathers tears 25 When Jesus raisd Lazarus from the Grave I stood & saw Lazarus who is the Vehicular Body of Albion the Redeemd Arise into the Covering Cherub who is the Spectre of Albion By martyrdoms to suffer: to watch over the Sleeping Body. Upon his Rock beneath his Tomb. I saw the Covering Cherub30 Divide Four-fold into Four Churches when Lazarus arose Paul, Constantine, Charlemaine, Luther; behold they stand before us Stretchd over Europe & Asia. come O Sons, come, come away Arise O Sons give all your strength against Eternal Death Lest we are vegetated, for Cathedrons Looms weave only Death35 A Web of Death: & were it not for Bowlahoola & Allamanda No Human Form but only a Fibrous Vegetation A Polypus of soft affections without Thought or Vision Must tremble in the Heavens & Earths thro all the Ulro space Throw all the Vegetated Mortals into Bowlahoola40 But as to this Elected Form who is returnd again He is the Signal that the Last Vintage now approaches Nor Vegetation may go on till all the Earth is reapd So Los spoke. Furious they descended to Bowlahoola & Allamanda Indignant. unconvincd by Los's arguments & thun ers rolling45 They saw that wrath now swayd and now pity absorbd him As it was, so it remaind & no hope of an end. Bowlahoola is namd Law. by mortals, Tharmas founded it: Because of Satan, before Luban in the City of Golgonooza. But Golgonooza is namd Art & Manufacture by mortal men.50 In Bowlahoola Los's Anvils stand & his Furnaces rage; Thundering the Hammers beat & the Bellows blow loud Living self moving mourning lamenting & howling incessantly Bowlahoola thro all its porches feels tho' too fast founded Its pillars & porticoes to tremble at the force55 Of mortal or immortal arm: and softly lilling flutes Accordant with the horrid labours make sweet melody t 121 The Bellows are the Animal Lungs: the hammers the Animal Heart The Furnaces the Stomach for digestion. terrible their fury Thousands & thousands labour. thousands play on instruments 60 Stringed or fluted to ameliorate the sorrows of slavery Loud sport the dancers in the dance of death, rejoicing in carnage The hard dentant Hammers are lulld by the flutes lula lula The bellowing Furnaces blare by the long sounding clarion t The double drum drowns howls & groans, the shrill fife. shrieks & cries:65 The crooked horn mellows the hoarse raving serpent, terrible, but harmonious t Bowlahoola is the Stomach in every individual man. Los is by mortals nam'd Time Enitharmon is nam'd Space But they depict him bald & aged who is in eternal youth All powerful and his locks flourish like the brows of morning70 He is the Spirit of Prophecy the ever apparent Elias Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Times swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment: All the Gods of the Kingdoms of Earth labour in Los's Halls. Every one is a fallen Son of the Spirit of Prophecy75 He is the Fourth Zoa, that stood arou d the Throne Divine.
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Loud shout the Sons of Luvah, at the Wine-presses as Los descended With Rintrah & Palamabron in his fires of resistless fury. The Wine-press on the Rhine groans loud, but all its central beams Act more terrific in the central Cities of the Nations Where Human Thought is crushd beneath the iron hand of Power.5 There Los puts all into the Press, the Opressor & the Opressed Together, ripe for the Harvest & Vintage & ready for the Loom. They sang at the Vintage. This is the Last Vintage! & Seed Shall no more be sown upon Earth, till all the Vintage is over And all gatherd in, till the Plow has passd over the Nations10 And the Harrow & heavy thundering Roller upon the mountains And loud the Souls howl round the Porches of Golgonooza Crying O God deliver us to the Heavens or to the Earths, That we may preach righteousness & punish the sinner with death But Los refused, till all the Vintage of Earth was gatherd in.15 And Los stood & cried to the Labourers of the Vintage in voice of awe. Fellow Labourers! The Great Vintage & Harvest is now upon Earth The whole extent of the Globe is explored: Every scatterd Atom Of Human Intellect now is flocking to the sound of the Trumpet All the Wisdom which was hidden in caves & dens, from ancient 20 Time; is now sought out from Animal & Vegetable & Mineral 122 The Awakener is come. outstretchd over Europe! the Vision of God is fulfilled The Ancient Man upon the Rock of Albion Awakes, He listens to the sounds of War astonishd & ashamed; He sees his Children mock at Faith and deny Providence25 Therefore you must bind the Sheaves not by Nations or Families You shall bind them in Three Classes; according to their Classes So shall you bind them. Separating What has been Mixed Since Men began to be Wove into Nations by Rahab & Tirzah Since Albions Death & Satans Cutting-off from our awful Fields; 30 When under pretence to benevolence the Elect Subdud All From the Foundation of the World. The Elect is one Class: You Shall bind them separate: they cannot Believe in Eternal Life Except by Miracle & a New Birth. The other two Classes; The Reprobate who never cease to Believe, and the Redeemd,35 Who live in doubts & fears perpetually tormented by the Elect These you shall bind in a twin-bundle for the Consummation— But the Elect must be saved fires of Eternal Death, To be formed into the Churches of Beulah that they destroy not the Earth For in every Nation & every Family the Three Classes are born 40 And in every Species of Earth, Metal, Tree, Fish, Bird & Beast. We form the Mundane Egg, that Spectres coming by fury or amity All is the same, & every one remains in his own energy Go forth Reapers with rejoicing. you sowed in tears But the time of your refreshing cometh, only a little moment45 Still abstain from pleasure & rest, in the labours of eternity And you shall Reap the whole Earth, from Pole to Pole! from Sea to Sea Begining at Jerusalems Inner Court, Lambeth ruin'd and given To the detestable Gods of Priam, to Apollo: and at the Asylum Given to Hercules, who labour in Tirzahs Looms for bread50 Who set Pleasure against Duty: who Create Olympic crowns To make Learning a burden & the Work of the Holy Spirit: Strife. T Thor & cruel Odin who first reard the Polar Caves t Lambeth mourns calling Jerusalem. she weeps & looks abroad For the Lords coming, that Jerusalem may overspread all Nations 55 Crave not for the mortal & perishing delights, but leave them To the weak, and pity the weak as your infant care; Break not Forth in your wrath lest you also are vegetated by Tirzah Wait till the Judgement is past, till the Creation is consumed And then rush forward with me into the glorious spiritual60 Vegetation; the Supper of the Lamb & his Bride; and the Awaking of Albion our friend and ancient companion. So Los spoke. But lightnings of discontent broke on all sides round And murmurs of thunder rolling heavy long & loud over the mountains While Los calld his Sons around him to the Harvest & the Vintage. 65 123 Thou seest the Constellations in the deep & wondrous Night They rise in order and continue their immortal courses Upon the mountains & in vales with harp & heavenly song With flute & clarion; with cups & measures filld with foaming wine. Glittring the streams reflect the Vision of beatitude,70 And the calm Ocean joys beneath & smooths his awful waves! [ PLATE26 [28] ] These are the Sons of Los, & these the Labourers of the Vintage Thou seest the gorgeous clothed Flies that dance & sport in summer Upon the sunny brooks & meadows: every one the dance t Knows in its intricate mazes of delight artful to weave: Each one to sound his instruments of music in the dance,5 To touch each other & recede; to cross & change & return These are the Children of Los; thou seest the Trees on mountains The wind blows heavy, loud they thunder thro' the darksom sky Uttering prophecies & speaking instructive words to the sons Of men: These are the Sons of Los! These the Visions of Eternity 10 But we see only as it were the hem of their garments When with our vegetable eyes we view these wond'rous Visions There are Two Gates thro which all Souls descend. One Southward From Dover Cliff to Lizard Point. the other toward the North Caithness & rocky Durness, Pentland & John Groats House. 15 The Souls descending to the Body, wail on the right hand Of Los; & those deliverd from the Body, on the left hand For Los against the east his force continually bends Along the Valleys of Middlesex from Hounslow to Blackheath Lest those Three Heavens of Beulah should the Creation destroy20 And lest they should descend before the north & south Gates Groaning with pity, he among the wailing Souls laments. And these the Labours of the Sons of Los in Allamanda: And in the City of Golgonooza: & in Luban: & around The Lake of Udan-Adan, in the Forests of Entuthon Benython25 Where Souls incessant wail, being piteous Passions & Desires With neither lineament nor form but like to watry clouds The Passions & Desires descend upon the hungry winds For such alone Sleepers remain meer passion & appetite; The Sons of Los clothe them & feed & provide houses & fields30 And every Generated Body in its inward form, Is a garden of delight & a building of magnificence, Built by the Sons of Los in Bowlahoola & Allamanda And the herbs & flowers & furniture & beds & chambers Continually woven in the Looms of Enitharmons Daughters35 In bright Cathedrons golden Dome with care & love & tears For the various Classes of Men are all markd out determinate 124 In Bowlahoola; & as the Spectres choose their affinities So they are born on Earth, & every Class is determinate But not by Natural but by Spiritual power alone, Because40 The Natural power continually seeks & tends to Destruction Ending in Death: which would of itself be Eternal Death And all are Class'd by Spiritual, & not by Natural power. And every Natural Effect has a Spiritual Cause, and Not A Natural: for a Natural Cause only seems, it is a Delusion45 Of Ulro: & a ratio of the perishing Vegetable Memory. [ PLATE27 [29] ] But the Wine-press of Los is eastward of Golgonooza, before the Seat t Of Satan. Luvah laid the foundation & Urizen finish'd it in howling Woe. How red the sons & daughters of Luvah! here they tread the grapes. Laughing & shouting drunk with odours many fall oerwearied t Drownd in the wine is many a youth & maiden: those around5 Lay them on skins of Tygers & of the spotted Leopard & the Wild Ass Till they revive, or bury them in cool grots, making lamentation. This Wine-press is call'd War on Earth, it is the Printing-Press Of Los; and here he lays his words in order above the mortal brain As cogs are formd in a wheel to turn the cogs of the adverse wheel. 10 Timbrels & violins sport round the Wine-presses; the little Seed; The sportive Root, the Earth-worm, the gold Beetle; the wise Emmet; Dance round the Wine-presses of Luvah: the Centipede is there: The ground Spider with many eyes: the Mole clothed in velvet The ambitious Spider in his sullen web; the lucky golden Spinner; 15 The Earwig armd: the tender Maggot emblem of immortality: The Flea: Louse: Bug: the Tape-Worm: all the Armies of Discase: Visible or invisible to the slothful vegetating Man. The slow Slug: the Grasshopper that sings & laughs & drinks: Winter comes, he folds his slender bones without a murmur.20 The cruel Scorpion is there: the Gnat: Wasp: Hornet & the Honey Bee: The Toad & venomous Newt; the Serpent clothd in gems & gold: They throw off their gorgeous raiment: they rejoice with loud jubilee Around the Wine-presses of Luvah, naked & drunk with wine. There is the Nettle that stings with soft down; and there25 The indignant Thistle: whose bitterness is bred in his milk: Who feeds on contempt of his neighbour: there all the idle Weeds That creep around the obscure places, shew their various limbs. Naked in all their beauty dancing round the Wine-presses. But in the Wine-presses the Human grapes sing not, nor dance30 They bowl & writhe in shoals of torment; in fierce flames consuming, 125 In chains of iron & in dungeons circled with ceaseless fires. In pits & dens & shades of death: in shapes of torment & woe. The plates & screws & wracks & saws & cords & fires & cisterns The cruel joys of Luvahs Daughters lacerating with knives35 And whips their Victims & the deadly sport of Luvahs Sons. They dance around the dying, & they drink the howl & groan They catch the shrieks in cups of gold, they hand them to one another: These are the sports of love, & these the sweet delights of amorous play Tears of the grape, the death sweat of the cluster the last sigh 40 Of the mild youth who listens to the lureing songs of Luvah But Allamanda calld on Earth Commerce, is the Cultivated land Around the City of Golgonooza in the Forests of Entuthon: Here the Sons of Los labour against Death Eternal; through all The Twenty-seven Heavens of Beulah in Ulro, Seat of Satan,45 Which is the False Tongue beneath Beulah: it is the Sense of Touch: The Plow goes forth in tempests & lightnings & the narrow cruel In blights of the east; the heavy Roller follows in howlings of woe. Urizens sons here labour also; & here are seen the Mills Of Theotormon, on the verge of the Lake of Udan-Adan:50 These are the starry voids of night & the depths & caverns of earth These Mills are oceans, clouds & waters ungovernable in their fury Here are the stars created & the seeds of all things planted And here the Sun & Moon recieve their fixed destinations But in Eternity the Four Arts: Poetry, Painting, Music,55 And Architecture which is Science: are the Four Faces of Man. Not so in Time & Space: there Three are shut out, and only Science remains thro Mercy: & by means of Science, the Three Become apparent in time & space, in the Three Professions Poetry in Religion: Music, Law: Painting, in Physic & Surgery: t60 That Man may live upon Earth till the time of his awaking, And from these Three, Science derives every Occupation of Men. And Science is divided into Bowlahoola & Allamanda. [ PLATE28 [30] ] Some Sons of Los surround the Passions with porches of iron & silver Creating form & beauty around the dark regions of sorrow, Giving to airy nothing a name and a habitation Delightful! with bounds to the Infinite putting off the Indefinite Into most holy forms of Thought: (such is the power of inspiration) 5 They labour incessant; with many tears & afflictions: Creating the beautiful House for the piteous sufferer. Others; Cabinets richly fabricate of gold & ivory; For Doubts & fears unform'd & wretched & melancholy t 126 The little weeping Spectre stands on the threshold of Death10 Eternal; and sometimes two Spectres like lamps quivering And often malignant they combat (heart-breaking sorrowful & piteous) Antamon takes them into his beautiful flexible hands, As the Sower takes the seed, or as the Artist his clay Or fine wax, to mould artful a model for golden ornaments,15 The soft hands of Antamon draw the indelible line: Form immortal with golden pen; such as the Spectre admiring Puts on the sweet form; then smiles Antamon bright thro his windows The Daughters of beauty look up from their Loom & prepare. The integument soft for its clothing with joy & delight.20 But Theotormon & Sotha stand in the hate of Luban anxious Their numbers are seven million & seven thousand & seven hundred They contend with the weak Spectres, they fabricate soothing forms The Spectre refuses. he seeks cruelty. they create the crested Cock Terrified the Spectre screams & rushes in fear into their Net 25 Of kindness & compassion & is born a weeping terror. Or they create the Lion & Tyger in compassionate thunderings Howling the Spectres flee: they take refuge in Human lineaments. The Sons of Ozoth within the Optic Nerve stand fiery glowing And the number of his Sons is eight millions & eight.30 They give delights to the man unknown; artificial riches They give to scorn, & their posessors to trouble & sorrow & care, Shutting the sun. & moon. & stars. & trees. & clouds. & waters. And hills. out from the Optic Nerve & hardening it into a bone Opake. and like the black pebble on the enraged beach.35 While the poor indigent is like the diamond which tho cloth'd In rugged covering in the mine, is open all within And in his hallowd center holds the heavens of bright eternity Ozoth here builds walls of rocks against the surging sea And timbers crampt with iron cramps bar in the joys of life40 From fell destruction in the Spectrous cunning or rage. He Creates The speckled Newt, the Spider & Beetle, the Rat & Mouse, The Badger & Fox: they worship before his feet in trembling fear. But others of the Sons of Los build Moments & Minutes & Hours And Days & Months & Years & Ages & Periods; wondrous buildings45 And every Moment has a Couch of gold for soft repose, (A Moment equals a pulsation of the artery) , And between every two Moments stands a Daughter of Beulah To feed the Sleepers on their Couches with maternal care. And every Minute has an azure Tent with silken Veils.50 And every Hour has a bright golden Gate carved with skill. And every Day & Night, has Walls of brass & Gates of adamant, Shining like precious stones & ornamented with appropriate signs: 127 And every Month, a silver paved Terrace builded high: And every Year, invulnerable Barriers with high Towers.55 And every Age is Moated deep with Bridges of silver & gold. And every Seven Ages is Incircled with a Flaming Fire. Now Seven Ages is amounting to Two Hundred Years Each has its Guard. each Moment Minute Hour Day Month & Year. All are the work of Fairy hands of the Four Elements60 The Guard are Angels of Providence on duty evermore Every Time less than a pulsation of the artery Is equal in its period & value to Six Thousand Years. [ PLATE29 [31] ] For in this Period the Poets Work is Done: and all the Great Events of Time start forth & are concievd in such a Period Within a Moment: a Pulsation of the Artery. The Sky is an immortal tent built by the Sons of Los And every Space that a Man views around his dwelling-place:5 Standing on his own roof, or in his garden on a mount Of twenty-five cubits in height, such space is his Universe; And on its verge the Sun rises & sets. the Clouds bow To meet the flat Earth & the Sea in such an orderd Space: The Starry heavens reach no further but here bend and set10 On all sides & the two Poles turn on their valves of gold: And if he move his dwelling-place, his heavens also move. Wher'eer he goes & all his neighbourhood bewail his loss: Such are the Spaces called Earth & such its dimension: As to that false appearance which appears to the reasoner,15 As of a Globe rolling thro Voidness, it is a delusion of Ulro The Microscope knows not of this nor the Telescope. they alter The ratio of the Spectators Organs but leave Objects untouchd For every Space larger than a red Globule of Mans blood. Is visionary: and is created by the Hammer of Los20 And every Space smaller than a Globule of Mans blood. opens Into Eternity of which this vegetable Earth is but a shadow: The red Globule is the unwearied Sun by Los created To measure Time and Space to mortal Men. every morning. Bowlahoola & Allamanda are placed on each side25 Of that Pulsation & that Globule, terrible their power. But Rintrah & Palamabron govern over Day & Night In Allamanda & Entuthon Benython where Souls wail: Where Orc incessant howls burning in fires of Eternal Youth, Within the vegetated mortal Nerves; for every Man born is joined 30 Within into One mighty Polypus, and this Polypus is Orc. But in the Optic vegetative Nerves Sleep was transformed To Death in old time by Satan the father of Sin & Death And Satan is the Spectre of Orc & Orc is the generate Luvah 128 But in the Nerves of the Nostrils, Accident being formed35 Into Substance & Principle, by the cruelties of Demonstration It became Opake & Indefinite; but the Divine Saviour, Formed it into a Solid by Los's Mathematic power. He named the Opake Satan: he named the Solid Adam And in the Nerves of the Ear, (for the Nerves of the Tongue are closed)40 On Albions Rock Los stands creating the glorious Sun each morning And when unwearied in the evening he creates the Moon Death to delude, who all in terror at their splendor leaves His prey while Los appoints, & Rintrah & Palamabron guide The Souls clear from the Rock of Death, that Death himself may wake 45 In his appointed season when the ends of heaven meet. Then Los conducts the Spirits to be Vegetated, into Great Golgonooza, free from the four iron pillars of Satans Throne (Temperance, Prudence, justice, Fortitude, the four pillars of tyranny) That Satans Watch-Fiends touch them not before they Vegetate.50 But Enitharmon and her Daughters take the pleasant charge. To give them to their lovely heavens till the Great Judgment Day Such is their lovely charge. But Rahab & Tirzah pervert Their mild influences, therefore the Seven Eyes of God walk round The Three Heavens of Ulro, where Tirzah & her Sisters55 Weave the black Woof of Death upon Entuthon Benython In the Vale of Surrey where Horeb terminates in Rephaim The stamping feet of Zelophehads Daughters are coverd with Human gore Upon the treddles of the Loom, they sing to the winged shuttle: The River rises above his banks to wash the Woof:60 He takes it in his arms: be passes it in strength thro his current The veil of human miseries is woven over the Ocean From the Atlantic to the Great South Sea, the Erythrean. Such is the World of Los the labour of six thousand years. Thus Nature is a Vision of the Science of the Elohim.65 End of the First Book. 129 b1.15.3 MILTON: BOOK THE SECOND t [ PLATE30 [33] ] Plate 30 [33] How wide the Gulf & Unpassable! between Simplicity & Insipidity / Contraries are Positives/ A Negation is not a Contrary
Milton, plate 30 There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True This place is called Beulah, It is a pleasant lovely Shadow Where no dispute can come. Because of those who Sleep. Into this place the Sons & Daughters of Ololon descended With solemn mourning into Beulahs moony shades & hills5 Weeping for Milton: mute wonder held the Daughters of Beulah Enrapturd with affection sweet and mild benevolence Beulah is evermore Created around Eternity; appearing To the Inhabitants of Eden, around them on all sides. But Beulah to its Inhabitants appears within each district10 As the beloved infant in his mothers bosom round incircled With arms of love & pity & sweet compassion. But to The Sons of Eden the moony habitations of Beulah, Are from Great Eternity a mild & pleasant Rest. And it is thus Created. Lo the Eternal Great Humanity15 To whom be Glory & Dominion Evermore Amen Walks among all his awful Family seen in every face As the breath of the Almighty. such are the words of man to man In the great Wars of Eternity, in fury of Poetic Inspiration, To build the Universe stupendous: Mental forms Creating20 But the Emanations trembled exceedingly, nor could they Live, because the life of Man was too exceeding unbounded His joy became terrible to them they trembled & wept Crying with one voice. Give us a habitation & a place In which we may be hidden under the shadow of wings25 For if we who are but for a time, & who pass away in winter Behold these wonders of Eternity we shall consume But you O our Fathers & Brothers, remain in Eternity 130 But grant us a Temporal Habitation. do you speak To us; we will obey your words as you obey Jesus30 The Eternal who is blessed for ever & ever. Amen So spake the lovely Emanations; & there appeard a pleasant Mild Shadow above: beneath: & on all sides round, |}}
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And the Divine Voice was heard in the Songs of Beulah Saying When I first Married you, I gave you all my whole Soul I thought that you would love my loves & joy in my delights Seeking for pleasures in my pleasures O Daughter of Babylon Then thou wast lovely, mild & gentle. now thou art terrible5 In jealousy & unlovely in my sight, because thou hast cruelly Cut off my loves in fury till I have no love left for thee Thy love depends on him thou lovest & on his dear loves Depend thy pleasures which thou hast cut off by jealousy Therefore I shew my jealousy & set before you Death.10 Behold Milton descended to Redeem the Female Shade 133 From Death Eternal; such your lot, to be continually Redeem'd By death & misery of those you love & by Annihilation When the Sixfold Female percieves that Milton annihilates Himself: that seeing all his loves by her cut off: he leaves15 Her also: intirely abstracting himself from Female loves She shall relent in fear of death: She shall begin to give Her maidens to her husband: delighting in his delight And then & then alone begins the happy Female joy As it is done in Beulah, & thou O Virgin Babylon Mother of Whoredoms 20 Shalt bring Jerusalem in thine arms in the night watches; and No longer turning her a wandering Harlot in the streets Shalt give her into the arms of God your Lord & Husband. Such are the Songs of Beulah in the Lamentations of Ololon N / Urthona / Adam / W Tharmas Luvah E / Satan / Urizen / S / Miltons Track
illustration from Milton, plate 33 [ PLATE34 [38] ] And all the Songs of Beulah sounded comfortable notes t To comfort Ololons lamentation, for they said Are you the Fiery Circle that late drove in fury & fire The Eight Immortal Starry-Ones down into Ulro dark Rending the Heavens of Beulah with your thunders & lightnings 5 And can you thus lament & can you pity & forgive? Is terror changd to pity O wonder of Eternity! 134 And the Four States of Humanity in its Repose, Were shewed them. First of Beulah a most pleasant Sleep On Couches soft, with mild music, tended by Flowers of Beulah10 Sweet Female forms, winged or floating in the air spontaneous The Second State is Alla & the third State Al-Ulro; But the Fourth State is dreadful; it is named Or-Ulro: The First State is in the Head, the Second is in the Heart: The Third in the Loins & Seminal Vessels & the Fourth15 In the Stomach & Intestines terrible, deadly, unutterable And he whose Gates are opend in those Regions of his Body Can from those Gates view all these wondrous Imaginations But Ololon sought the Or-Ulro & its fiery Gates And the Couches of the Martyrs: & many Daughters of Beulah20 Accompany them down to the Ulro with soft melodious tears A long journey & dark thro Chaos in the track of Miltons course To where the Contraries of Beulah War beneath Negations Banner Then view'd from Miltons Track they see the Ulro: a vast Polypus Of living fibres down into the Sea of Time & Space growing25 A self-devouring monstrous human Death Twenty-seven fold Within it sit Five Females & the nameless Shadowy Mother Spinning it from their bowels with songs of amorous delight And melting cadences that lure the Sleepers of Beulah down The River Storge (which is Arnon) into the Dead Sea:30 Around this Polypus Los continual builds the Mundane Shell Four Universes round the Universe of Los remain Chaotic Four intersecting Globes, & the Egg form'd World of Los In midst; stretching from Zenith to Nadir, in midst of Chaos. One of these Ruind Universes is to the North named Urthona35 One to the South this was the glorious World of Urizen One to the East, of Luvah: One to the West; of Tharmas. But when Luvah assumed the World of Urizen in the South All fell towards the Center sinking downward in dire Ruin Here in these Chaoses the Sons of Ololon took their abode40 In Chasms of the Mundane Shell which open on all sides round Southward & by the East within the Breach of Miltons descent To watch the time, pitying & gentle to awaken Urizen They stood in a dark land of death of fiery corroding waters Where lie in evil death the Four Immortals pale and cold45 And the Eternal Man even Albion upon the Rock of Ages Seeing Miltons Shadow, some Daughters of Beulah trembling Returnd, but Ololon remaind before the Gates of the Dead And Ololon looked down into the Heavens of Ulro in fear They said. How are the Wars of Man which in Great Eternity50 135 Appear around, in the External Spheres of Visionary Life Here renderd Deadly within the Life & Interior Vision How are the Beasts & Birds & Fishes, & Plants & Minerals Here fixd into a frozen bulk subject to decay & death Those Visions of Human Life & Shadows of Wisdom & Knowledge 55 [ PLATE35 [39] ] Are here frozen to unexpansive deadly destroying terrors And War & Hunting: the Two Fountains of the River of Life Are become Fountains of bitter Death & of corroding Hell Till Brotherhood is changd into a Curse & a Flattery By Differences between Ideas, that Ideas themselves, (which are5 The Divine Members) may be slain in offerings for sin O dreadful Loom of Death! O piteous Female forms compelld To weave the Woof of Death, On Camberwell Tirzahs Courts Malahs on Blackheath, Rahab & Noah. dwell on Windsors heights Where once the Cherubs of Jerusalem spread to Lambeths Vale10 Milcahs Pillars shine from Harrow to Hampstead where Hoglah On Highgates heights magnificent Weaves over trembling Thames To Shooters Hill and thence to Blackheath the dark Woof! Loud Loud roll the Weights & Spindles over the whole Earth let down On all sides round to the Four Quarters of the World, eastward on 15 Europe to Euphrates & Hindu, to Nile & back in Clouds Of Death across the Atlantic to America North & South So spake Ololon in reminiscence astonishd, but they Could not behold Golgonooza without passing the Polypus A wondrous journey not passable by Immortal feet, & none20 But the Divine Saviour can pass it without annihilation. For Golgonooza cannot be seen till having passd the Polypus It is viewed on all sides round by a Four-fold Vision Or till you become Mortal & Vegetable in Sexuality Then you behold its mighty Spires & Domes of ivory & gold 25 And Ololon examined all the Couches of the Dead. Even of Los & Enitharmon & all the Sons of Albion And his Four Zoas terrified & on the verge of Death In midst of these was Miltons Couch, & when they saw Eight Immortal Starry-Ones, guarding the Couch in flaming fires30 They thunderous utterd all a universal groan falling down Prostrate before the Starry Eight asking with tears forgiveness Confessing their crime with humiliation and sorrow. O how the Starry Eight rejoic'd to see Ololon descended! And now that a wide road was open to Eternity,35 By Ololons descent thro Beulah to Los & Enitharmon, For mighty were the multitudes of Ololon, vast the extent Of their great sway, reaching from Ulro to Eternity 136 Surrounding the Mundane Shell outside in its Caverns And through Beulah. and all silent forbore to contend40 With Ololon for they saw the Lord in the Clouds of Ololon There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find Nor can his Watch Fiends find it, but the Industrious find This Moment & it multiply. & when it once is found It renovates every Moment of the Day if rightly placed 45 In this Moment Ololon descended to Los & Enitharmon Unseen beyond the Mundane Shell Southward in Miltons track Just in this Moment when the morning odours rise abroad And first from the Wild Thyme, stands a Fountain in a rock Of crystal flowing into two Streams, one flows thro Golgonooza50 And thro Beulah to Eden beneath Los's western Wall The other flows thro the Aerial Void & all the Churches Meeting again in Golgonooza beyond Satans Seat The Wild Thyme is Los's Messenger to Eden, a mighty Demon Terrible deadly & poisonous his presence in Ulro dark55 Therefore he appears only a small Root creeping in grass Covering over the Rock of Odours his bright purple mantle Beside the Fount above the Larks nest in Golgonooza Luvah slept here in death & here is Luvahs empty Tomb Ololon sat beside this Fountain on the Rock of Odours.60 Just at the place to where the Lark mounts, is a Crystal Gate It is the enterance of the First Heaven named Luther: for The Lark is Los's Messenger thro the Twenty-seven Churches That the Seven Eyes of God who walk even to Satans Seat Thro all the Twenty-seven Heavens may not slumber nor sleep65 But the Larks Nest is at the Gate of Los, at the eastern Gate of wide Golgonooza & the Lark is Los's Messenger [ PLATE36 [40] ] When on the highest lift of his light pinions he arrives At that bright Gate, another Lark meets him & back to back They touch their pinions tip tip: and each descend To their respective Earths & there all night consult with Angels Of Providence & with the Eyes of God all night in slumbers5 Inspired: & at the dawn of day send out another Lark Into another Heaven to carry news upon his wings Thus are the Messengers dispatchd till they reach the Earth again In the East Gate of Golgonooza, & the Twenty-eighth bright Lark. met the Female Ololon descending into my Garden10 Thus it appears to Mortal eyes & those of the Ulro Heavens But not thus to Immortals, the Lark is a mighty, Angel. For Ololon step'd into the Polypus within the Mundane Shell They could not step into Vegetable Worlds without becoming 137 The enemies of Humanity except in a Female Form15 And as One Female, Ololon and all its mighty Hosts Appear'd: a Virgin of twelve years nor time nor space was To the perception of the Virgin Ololon but as the Flash of lightning but more quick the Virgin in my Garden Before my Cottage stood for the Satanic Space is delusion20 For when Los joind with me he took me in his firy whirlwind My Vegetated portion was hurried from Lambeths shades He set me down in Felphams Vale & prepard a beautiful Cottage for me that in three years I might write all these Visions To display Natures cruel holiness: the deceits of Natural Religion 25 Walking in my Cottage Garden, sudden I beheld The Virgin Ololon & address'd her as a Daughter of Beulah Virgin of Providence fear not to enter into my Cottage What is thy message to thy friend: What am I now to do Is it again to plunge into deeper affliction? behold me30 Ready to obey, but pity thou my Shadow of Delight Enter my Cottage, comfort her, for she is sick with fatigue t [ PLATE37 [41] ] The Virgin answerd. Knowest thou of Milton who descended Driven from Eternity; him I seek! terrified at my Act In Great Eternity which thou knowest! I come him to seek So Ololon utterd in words distinct the anxious thought Mild was the voice, but more distinct than any earthly5 That Miltons Shadow heard & condensing all his Fibres Into a strength impregnable of majesty & beauty infinite I saw he was the Covering Cherub & within him Satan And Raha , in an outside which is fallacious! within t Beyond the outline of Identity, in the Selfhood deadly10 And he appeard the Wicker Man of Scandinavia in whom Jerusalems children consume in flames among the Stars Descending down into my Garden, a Human Wonder of God Reaching from heaven to earth a Cloud & Human Form I beheld Milton with astonishment & in him beheld15 The Monstrous Churches of Beulah, the Gods of Ulro dark Twelve monstrous dishumanizd terrors Synagogues of Satan. A Double Twelve & Thrice Nine: such their divisions. And these their Names & their Places within the Mundane Shell In Tyre & Sidon I saw Baal & Ashtaroth. In Moab Chemosh 20 In Ammon, Molech: loud his Furnaces rage among the Wheels Of Og, & pealing loud the cries of the Victims of Fire! And pale his Priestesses infolded in Veils of Pestilence, border'd With War; Woven in Looms of Tyre & Sidon by beautiful Ashtaroth. 138 In Palestine Dagon, Sea Monster! worshipd o'er the Sea.25 Thammuz in Lebanon & Rimmon in Damascus curtaind Osiris: Isis: Orus: in Egypt: dark their Tabernacles on Nile Floating with solemn songs, & on the Lakes of Egypt nightly With pomp, even till morning break & Osiris appear in the sky But Belial of Sodom & Gomorrha, obscure Demon of Bribes30 And secret Assasinations, not worshipd nor adord; but t With the finger on the lips & the back turnd to the light And Saturn Jove & Rhea of the Isles of the Sea remote These Twelve Gods. are the Twelve Spectre Sons of the Druid Albion And these the names of the Twenty-seven Heavens & their Churches 35 Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech: these are Giants mighty Hermaphroditic Noah, Shem, Arphaxad, Cainan the second, Salah, Heber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, these are the Female-Males A Male within a Female hid as in an Ark & Curtains,40 Abraham, Moses, Solomon, Paul, Constantine, Charlemaine Luther, these seven are the Male-Females, the Dragon Forms Religion hid in War, a Dragon red & hidden Harlot All these are seen in Miltons Shadow who is the Covering Cherub The Spectre of Albion in which the Spectre of Luvah inhabits45 In the Newtonian Voids between the Substances of Creation For the Chaotic Voids outside of the Stars are measured by The Stars, which are the boundaries of Kingdoms, Provinces And Empires of Chaos invisible to the Vegetable Man The Kingdom of Og. is in Orion: Sihon is in Ophiucus50 Og has Twenty-seven Districts; Sihons Districts Twenty-one From Star to Star, Mountains & Valleys, terrible dimension Stretchd out, compose the Mundane Shell, a mighty Incrustation Of Forty-eight deformed Human Wonders of the Almighty With Caverns whose remotest bottoms meet again beyond55 The Mundane Shell in Golgonooza, but the Fires of Los, rage In the remotest bottoms of the Caves, that none can pass Into Eternity that way, but all descend to Los To Bowlahoola & Allamanda & to Entuthon Benython The Heavens are the Cherub, the Twelve Gods are Satan60 [ PLATE38 [43] ] And the Forty-eight Starry Regions are Cities of the Levites The Heads of the Great Polypus, Four-fold twelve enormity In mighty & mysterious comingling enemy with enemy Woven by Urizen into Sexes from his mantle of years And Milton collecting all his fibres into impregnable strength5 Descended down a Paved work of all kinds of precious stones Out from the eastern sky; descending down into my Cottage Garden: clothed in black, severe & silent he descended. 139 The Spectre of Satan stood upon the roaring sea & beheld Milton within his sleeping Humanity! trembling & shuddring10 He stood upon the waves a Twenty-seven-fold mighty Demon Gorgeous & beautiful: loud roll his thunders against Milton Loud Satan thunderd, loud & dark upon mild Felpham shore Not daring to touch one fibre he howld round upon the Sea. I also stood in Satans bosom & beheld its desolations!15 A ruind Man: a ruind building of God not made with hands; Its plains of burning sand, its mountains of marble terrible: Its pits & declivities flowing with molten ore & fountains Of pitch & nitre: its ruind palaces & cities & mighty works; Its furnaces of affliction in which his Angels & Emanations 20 Labour with blackend visages among its stupendous ruins Arches & pyramids & porches colonades & domes: In which dwells Mystery Babylon, here is her secret place From hence she comes forth on the Churches in delight Here is her Cup filld with its poisons, in these horrid vales25 And here her scarlet Veil woven in pestilence & war: Here is Jerusalem bound in chains, in the Dens of Babylon In the Eastern porch of Satans Universe Milton stood & said Satan! my Spectre! I know my power thee to annihilate And be a greater in thy place, & be thy Tabernacle30 A covering for thee to do thy will, till one greater comes And smites me as I smote thee & becomes my covering. Such are the Laws of thy false Heavns! but Laws of Eternity Are not such: know thou: I come to Self Annihilation Such are the Laws of Eternity that each shall mutually35 Annihilate himself for others good, as I for thee Thy purpose & the purpose of thy Priests & of thy Churches Is to impress on men the fear of death; to teach Trembling & fear, terror, constriction; abject selfishness Mine is to teach Men to despise death & to go on40 In fearless majesty annihilating Self, laughing to scorn Thy Laws & terrors, shaking down thy Synagogues as webs I come to discover before Heavn & Hell the Self righteousness In all its Hypocritic turpitude, opening to every eye These wonders of Satans holiness shewing to the Earth45 The Idol Virtues of the Natural Heart, & Satans Seat Explore in all its Selfish Natural Virtue & put off In Self annihilation all that is not of God alone: To put off Self & all I have ever & ever Amen Satan heard! Coming in a cloud, with trumpets & flaming fire 50 Saying I am God the judge of all, the living & the dead Fall therefore down & worship me. submit thy supreme Dictate, to my eternal Will & to my dictate bow 140 I hold the Balances of Right & Just & mine the Sword Seven Angels bear my Name & in those Seven I appear55 But I alone am God & I alone in Heavn & Earth Of all that live dare utter this, others tremble & bow [ PLATE39 [44] ] Till All Things become One Great Satan, in Holiness Oppos'd to Mercy, and the Divine Delusion Jesus be no more Suddenly around Milton on my Path, the Starry Seven Burnd terrible! my Path became a solid fire, as bright As the clear Sun & Milton silent came down on my Path.5 And there went forth from the Starry limbs of the Seven: Forms Human; with Trumpets innumerable, sounding articulate As the Seven spake; and they stood in a mighty Column of Fire Surrounding Felphams Vale, reaching to the Mundane Shell, Saying Awake Albion awake! reclaim thy Reasoning Spectre. Subdue10 Him to the Divine Mercy, Cast him down into the Lake Of Los, that ever burneth with fire, ever & ever Amen! Let the Four Zoa's awake from Slumbers of Six Thousand Years Then loud the Furnaces of Los were heard! & seen as Seven heavens Stretching from south to north over the mountains of Albion15 Satan heard; trembling round his Body, he incircled it He trembled with exceeding great trembling & astonishment Howling in his Spectre round his Body hungring to devour But fearing for the pain for if he touches a Vital, His torment is unendurable: therefore he cannot devour:20 But howls round it as a lion round his prey continually Loud Satan thunderd, loud & dark upon mild Felphams Shore Coming in a Cloud with Trumpets & with Fiery Flame An awful Form eastward from midst of a bright Paved-work Of precious stones by Cherubim surrounded: so permitted25 (Lest he should fall apart in his Eternal Death) to imitate The Eternal Great Humanity Divine surrounded by His Cherubim & Seraphim in ever happy Eternity Beneath sat Chaos: Sin on his right hand Death on his left And Ancient Night spread over all the heavn his Mantle of Laws30 He trembled with exceeding great trembling & astonishment Then Albion rose up in the Night of Beulah on his Couch Of dread repose seen by the visionary eye; his face is toward The east, toward Jerusalems Gates: groaning he sat above His rocks. London & Bath & Legions & Edinburgh35 Are the four pillars of his Throne; his left foot near London Covers the shades of Tyburn: his instep from Windsor To Primrose Hill stretching to Highgate & Holloway 141 London is between his knees: its basements fourfold His right foot stretches to the sea on Dover cliffs, his heel40 On Canterburys ruins; his right hand covers lofty Wales His left Scotland; his bosom girt with gold involves York, Edinburgh, Durham & Carlisle & on the front Bath, Oxford, Cambridge Norwich; his right elbow Leans on the Rocks of Erins Land, Ireland ancient nation 45 His head bends over London: he sees his embodied Spectre Trembling before him with exceeding great trembling & fear He views Jerusalem & Babylon, his tears flow down He movd his right foot to Cornwall, his left to the Rocks of Bognor He strove to rise to walk into the Deep. but strength failing50 Forbad & down with dreadful groans he sunk upon his Couch In moony Beulah. Los his strong Guard walks round beneath the Moon Urizen faints in terror striving among the Brooks of Arnon With Miltons Spirit: as the Plowman or Artificer or Shepherd While in the labours of his Calling sends his Thought abroad t55 To labour in the ocean or in the starry heaven. So Milton Labourd in Chasms of the Mundane Shell, tho here before My Cottage midst the Starry Seven, where the Virgin Ololon Stood trembling in the Porch: loud Satan thunderd on the stormy Sea Circling Albions Cliffs in which the Four-fold World resides60 Tho seen in fallacy outside: a fallacy of Satans Churches [ PLATE40 [46] ] Before Ololon Milton stood & percievd the Eternal Form Of that mild Vision; wondrous were their acts by me unknown Except remotely; and I heard Ololon say to Milton I see thee strive upon the Brooks of Arnon. there a dread And awful Man I see, oercoverd with the mantle of years.5 I behold Los & Urizen. I behold Orc & Tharmas; The Four Zoa's of Albion & thy Spirit with them striving In Self annihilation giving thy life to thy enemies Are those who contemn Religion & seek to annihilate it Become in their Femin e portions the causes & promoters10 Of these Religions, how is this thing? this Newtonian Phantasm This Voltaire & Rousseau: this Hume & Gibbon & Bolingbroke This Natural Religion! this impossible absurdity Is Ololon the cause of this? O where shall I hide my face These tears fall for the little-ones: the Children of Jerusalem 15 Lest they be annihilated in thy annihilation. No sooner she had spoke but Rahab Babylon appeard Eastward upon the Paved work across Europe & Asia Glorious as the midday Sun in Satans bosom glowing: A Female hidden in a Male, Religion hidden in War20 142 Namd Moral Virtue; cruel two-fold Monster shining bright A Dragon red & hidden Harlot which John in Patmos saw And all beneath the Nations innumerable of Ulro Appeard, the Seven Kingdoms of Canaan & Five Baalim Of Philistea. into Twelve divided, calld after the Names25 Of Israel: as they are in Eden. Mountain. River & Plain City & sandy Desart intermingled beyond mortal ken But turning toward Ololon in terrible majesty Milton Replied. Obey thou the Words of the Inspired Man All that can be annihilated must be annihilated t30 That the Children of Jerusalem may be saved from slavery There is a Negation, & there is a Contrary The Negation must be destroyd to redeem the Contraries The Negation is the Spectre; the Reasoning Power in Man This is a false Body: an Incrustation over my Immortal35 Spirit; a Selfhood, which must be put off & annihilated alway To cleanse the Face of my Spirit by Self-examination. [ PLATE41 [48] ] To bathe in the Waters of Life; to wash off the Not Human I come in Self-annihilation & the grandeur of Inspiration To cast off Rational Demonstration by Faith in the Saviour To cast off the rotten rags of Memory by Inspiration To cast off Bacon, Locke & Newton from Albions covering5 To take off his filthy garments, & clothe him with Imagination To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration That it no longer shall dare to mock with the aspersion of Madness Cast on the Inspired, by the tame high finisher of paltry Blots, Indefinite, or paltry Rhymes; or paltry Harmonies.10 Who creeps into State Government like a catterpiller to destroy To cast off the idiot Questioner who is always questioning, But never capable of answering; who sits with a sly grin Silent plotting when to question, like a thief in a cave; Who publishes doubt & calls it knowledge; whose Science is Despair 15 Whose pretence to knowledge is Envy, whose whole Science is To destroy the wisdom of ages to gratify ravenous Envy; That rages round him like a Wolf day & night without rest He smiles with condescension; he talks of Benevolence & Virtue And those who act with Benevolence & Virtue, they murder time on time20 These are the destroyers of Jerusalem, these are the murderers Of Jesus, who deny the Faith & mock at Eternal Life: Who pretend to Poetry that they may destroy Imagination; By imitation of Natures Images drawn from Remembrance These are the Sexual Garments, the Abomination of Desolation25 Hiding the Human lineaments as with an Ark & Curtains 143 Which Jesus rent: & now shall wholly purge away with Fire Till Generation is swallowd up in Regeneration. Then trembled the Virgin Ololon & replyd in clouds of despair Is this our Femin e Portion the Six-fold Miltonic Female30 Terribly this Portion trembles before thee O awful Man Altho' our Human Power can sustain the severe contentions Of Friendship, our Sexual cannot: but flies into the Ulro. Hence arose all our terrors in Eternity! & now remembrance Returns upon us! are we Contraries O Milton, Thou & I35 O Immortal! how were we led to War the Wars of Death Is this the Void Outside of Existence, which if enterd into [ PLATE42 [49] ] Becomes a Womb? & is this the Death Couch of Albion Thou goest to Eternal Death & all must go with thee So saying, the Virgin divided Six-fold & with a shriek Dolorous that ran thro all Creation a Double Six-fold Wonder! Away from Ololon she divided & fled into the depths5 Of Miltons Shadow as a Dove upon the stormy Sea. Then as a Moony Ark Ololon descended to Felphams Vale In clouds of blood, in streams of gore, with dreadful thunderings Into the Fires of Intellect that rejoic'd in Felphams Vale Around the Starry Eight: with one accord the Starry Eight became 10 One Man Jesus the Saviour. wonderful! round his limbs The Clouds of Ololon folded as a Garment dipped in blood Written within & without in woven letters: & the Writing Is the Divine Revelation in the Litteral expression: A Garment of War, I heard it namd the Woof of Six Thousand Years 15 And I beheld the Twenty-four Cities of Albion Arise upon their Thrones to Judge the Nations of the Earth And the Immortal Four in whom the Twenty-four appear Four-fold Arose around Albions body: Jesus wept & walked forth From Felphams Vale clothed in Clouds of blood, to enter into20 Albions Bosom, the bosom of death & the Four surrounded him In the Column of Fire in Felphams Vale; then to their mouths the Four Applied their Four Trumpets & them sounded to the Four winds Terror struck in the Vale I stood at that immortal sound My bones trembled. I fell outstretchd upon the path25 A moment, & my Soul returnd into its mortal state To Resurrection & Judgment in the Vegetable Body And my sweet Shadow of Delight stood trembling by my side Immediately the Lark mounted with a loud trill from Felphams Vale And the Wild Thyme from Wimbletons green & impurpled Hills30 144 And Los & Enitharmon rose over the Hills of Surrey Their clouds roll over London with a south wind, soft Oothoon Pants in the Vales of Lambeth weeping oer her Human Harvest Los listens to the Cry of the Poor Man: his Cloud Over London in volume terrific, low bended in anger.35 Rintrah & Palamabron view the Human Harvest beneath Their Wine-presses & Barns stand open; the Ovens are prepar'd The Waggons ready: terrific Lions & Tygers sport & play All Animals upon the Earth, are prepard in all their strength [ PLATE43 [50] ] To go forth to the Great Harvest & Vintage of the Nations t Finis
