The Prophetic Books of William Blake: Jerusalem |
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Albion's Sons Amalek Anvil awake Babylon beauty behold beneath Beulah Blake blood bosom build Canaan Children clos'd clouds cruel cruelty dark Daughters of Albion Daughters of Beulah Dead deadly despair divided Divine Vision Druid Earth Emanation Enitharmon Eternal Death Female fibres fire flames fled Forgiveness Four Zoas fourfold Furnaces fury Gate Giant gold golden Golgonooza groans Gwendolen Hammer hand hath Heavens hills Holy howling Human Hyle immortal iron Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus labour Lamb Lamb of God Loins London London Stone Looms Los's loud Luvah Mercy mighty mild Moab Moon Moral mountains Mundane Shell night pain Palamabron pillars pity rage Rahab Religion Reuben River rocks roll'd round Satan Shadow sleep Sons & Daughters Sons of Albion soul Spectre Starry Wheels Stone stood sweet Tabernacle tears terrible Tharmas thee Theotormon thou thro thunder trembling Twelve Ulro Urizen Urthona Vala Valley Vegetated Veil Victim voice weave weeping wrath
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Page 65 - He who would do good to another, must do it in Minute Particulars General Good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite & flatterer : For Art &: Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars...
Page 39 - What may Man be? who can tell! but what may Woman be? To have power over Man from Cradle to corruptible Grave. There is a Throne in every Man, it is the Throne of God This Woman has claimd as her own & Man is no more!
Page 14 - I turn my eyes to the Schools & Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom of Locke whose Woof rages dire Washd by the Water-wheels of Newton. black the cloth In heavy wreathes folds over every Nation...
Page 120 - 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...
Page 119 - 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...
Page 8 - I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create.
Page xxii - Every word and every letter is studied and put into its fit place; the terrific numbers are reserved for the terrific parts, the mild & gentle for the mild & gentle parts, and the prosaic for inferior parts; all are necessary to each other.
Page 2 - I rest not from my great task! To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal Eyes Of Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into Eternity Ever expanding in the Bosom of God. the Human Imagination...
Page 28 - Your Ancestors derived their origin from Abraham, Heber, Shem and Noah, who were Druids, as the Druid Temples (which are the Patriarchal Pillars & Oak Groves) over the whole Earth witness to this day. You have a tradition, that Man anciently contain'd in his mighty limbs all things in Heaven & Earth: this you recieved from the Druids. "But now the Starry Heavens are fled from the mighty limbs of Albion.
Page 62 - In Great Eternity, every particular Form gives forth or Emanates Its own peculiar Light, & the Form is the Divine Vision And the Light is his Garment. This is Jerusalem in every Man A Tent & Tabernacle of Mutual Forgiveness Male & Female Clothings. And Jerusalem is called Liberty among the Children of Albion...