Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 34a
Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 34, "Elevate into the Region of Brotherhood...."
Elevate into the Region of Brotherhood with my red fires
Art thou Vala? replied Albion, image of my reposeO how I tremble! how my members pour down milky fear!A dewy garment covers me all over, all manhood is gone!5At thy word & at thy look death enrobes me aboutFrom head to feet, a garment of death & eternal fearIs not that Sun thy husband & that Moon thy glimmering Veil?Are not the Stars of heaven thy Children! art thou not Babylon?Art thou Nature Mother of all! is Jerusalem thy Daughter10Why have thou elevate inward: O dweller of outward chambersFrom grot & cave beneath the Moon dim region of deathWhere I laid my Plow in the hot noon, where my hot team fedWhere implements of War are forged, the Plow to go over the NationsIn pain girding me round like a rib of iron in heaven! O Vala15In Eternity they neither marry nor are given in marriageAlbion the high Cliff of the Atlantic is become a barren Land
Los stood at his Anvil: he heard the contentions of Vala—He heavd his thundring Bellows upon the valleys of MiddlesexHe opend his Furnaces before Vala, then Albion frownd in anger20On his Rock: ere yet the Starry Heavens were fled awayFrom his awful Members, and thus Los cried aloudTo the Sons of Albion & to Hand the eldest Son of Albion
I hear the screech of Childbirth loud pealing, & the groansOf Death, in Albions clouds dreadful utterd over all the Earth25What 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 GodThis Woman has claimd as her own & Man is no more!Albion is the Tabernacle of Vala & her Temple30And not the Tabernacle & Temple of the Most HighO Albion why wilt thou Create a Female Will?
To hide the most evident God in a hidden covert, evenIn the shadows of a Woman & a secluded Holy PlaceThat we may pry after him as after a stolen treasure35Hidden among the Dead & mured up from the paths of lifeHand! art thou not Reuben enrooting thyself into BashanTill thou remainest a vaporous Shadow in a Void! O Merlin!Unknown among the Dead where never before Existence cameIs this the Female Will O ye lovely Daughters of Albion. To40Converse concerning Weight & Distance in the Wilds of Newton & Locke
So Los spoke standing on Mam-Tor looking over Europe & AsiaThe Graves thunder beneath his feet from Ireland to Japan
Reuben slept in Bashan like one dead in the valleyCut off from Albions mountains & from all the Earths summits45Between Succoth & Zaretan beside the Stone of BohanWhile the Daughters of Albion divided Luvah into three BodiesLos bended his Nostrils down to the Earth, then sent him overJordan to the Land of the Hittite: every-one that saw himFled! they fled at his horrible Form: they hid in caves50And dens, they looked on one-another & became what they beheld
Reuben return'd to Bashan, in despair he slept on the Stone.Then Gwendolen divided into Rahab & Tirza in Twelve Portions[.]Los rolled, his Eyes into two narrow circles, then sent himOver Jordan; all terrified fled: they became what they beheld.
55If Perceptive Organs vary: Objects of Perception seem to vary:If the Perceptive Organs close: their Objects seem to close also:Consider this O mortal Man! O worm of sixty winters said LosConsider Sexual Organization & hide thee in the dust.