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Once Man was
occupied in intellectual pleasures & energies
But now my soul is
harrowd with grief & fear & love & desire
And now I hate &
now I love & Intellect is no more:
There is no time for
any thing but the torments of love & desire
The Feminine &
Masculine Shadows soft, mild & ever varying
In beauty: are
Shadows now no more, but Rocks in Horeb
— Jerusalem,
Chapter 3, Plate 68
[....] Go to these Fiends of Righteousness
Tell them to obey
their Humanities, & not pretend Holiness;
When they are
murderers: as far as my Hammer & Anvil permit
Go, tell them that
the Worship of God, is honouring his gifts
In other men: &
loving the greatest men best, each according
To his Genius: which
is the Holy Ghost in Man; there is no other
God, than that God
who is the intellectual fountain of Humanity;
He who envies or
calumniates: which is murder & cruelty,
Murders the
Holy-one: Go tell them this & overthrow their cup,
Their bread, their
altar-table, their incense & their oath:
Their marriage &
their baptism, their burial & consecration:
I have tried to make
friends by corporeal gifts but have only
Made enemies: I
never made friends but by spiritual gifts;
By severe
contentions of friendship & the burning fire of thought.
He who would see the
Divinity must see him in his Children
One first, in
friendship & love; then a Divine Family, & in the midst
Jesus will appear;
so he who wishes to see a Vision; a perfect Whole
Must see it in its
Minute Particulars; Organized & not as thou
O Fiend of
Righteousness pretendest; thine is a Disorganized
And snowy cloud:
brooder of tempests & destructive War
You smile with pomp
& rigor: you talk of benevolence & virtue!
I act with
benevolence & virtue & get murderd time after time:
You accumulate
Particulars, & murder by analyzing, that you
May take the
aggregate; & you call the aggregate Moral Law:
And you call that
Swelld & bloated Form; a Minute Particular.
But General Forms
have their vitality in Particulars: & every
Particular is a Man;
a Divine Member of the Divine Jesus.
— Jerusalem,
Chapter 4, Plate 91
Terrified Los sat to
behold trembling & weeping & howling
I care not whether a
Man is Good or Evil; all that I care
Is whether he is a
Wise Man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness
And put on
Intellect: or my thundrous Hammer shall drive thee
To wrath which thou
condemnest: till thou obey my voice
— Jerusalem,
Chapter 4, Plate 91
The Four Living
Creatures Chariots of Humanity Divine Incomprehensible
In beautiful
Paradises expand These are the Four Rivers of Paradise
And the Four Faces
of Humanity fronting the Four Cardinal Points
Of Heaven going
forward forward irresistible from Eternity to Eternity
And they conversed
together in Visionary forms dramatic which bright
Redounded from their
Tongues in thunderous majesty, in Visions
In new Expanses,
creating exemplars of Memory and of Intellect
Creating Space,
Creating Time according to the wonders Divine
Of Human
Imagination, throughout all the Three Regions immense
Of Childhood,
Manhood & Old Age & the all tremendous unfathomable Non Ens
Of Death was seen in
regenerations terrific or complacent varying
According to the
subject of discourse & every Word & Every Character
Was Human according
to the Expansion or Contraction, the Translucence or
Opakeness of Nervous
fibres such was the variation of Time & Space
Which vary according
as the Organs of Perception vary & they walked
To & fro in
Eternity as One Man reflecting each in each & clearly seen
And seeing:
according to fitness & order. And I heard Jehovah speak
Terrific from his
Holy Place & saw the Words of the Mutual Covenant Divine
On Chariots of gold
& jewels with Living Creatures starry & flaming
With every Colour,
Lion, Tyger, Horse, Elephant, Eagle Dove, Fly, Worm,
And the all wondrous
Serpent clothed in gems & rich array Humanize
In the Forgiveness
of Sins according to the Covenant of Jehovah. They Cry
Where is the
Covenant of Priam, the Moral Virtues of the Heathen
Where is the Tree of
Good & Evil that rooted beneath the cruel heel
Of Albions Spectre
the Patriarch Druid! where are all his Human Sacrifices
For Sin in War &
in the Druid Temples of the Accuser of Sin: beneath
The Oak Groves of
Albion that coverd the whole Earth beneath his Spectre
Where are the
Kingdoms of the World & all their glory that grew on Desolation
The Fruit of Albions
Poverty Tree when the Triple Headed Gog-Magog Giant
Of Albion Taxed the
Nations into Desolation & then gave the Spectrous Oath
Such is the Cry from
all the Earth from the Living Creatures of the Earth
And from the great
City of Golgonooza in the Shadowy Generation
And from the
Thirty-two Nations of the Earth among the Living Creatures
All Human Forms
identified even Tree Metal Earth & Stone. all
Human Forms
identified, living going forth & returning wearied
Into the Planetary
lives of Years Months Days & Hours reposing
And then Awaking
into his Bosom in the Life of Immortality.
And I heard the Name
of their Emanations they are named Jerusalem
The End of The Song
of Jerusalem
— Jerusalem,
Chapter 4, Plates 98-99
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