Reuben return'd to his place, in vain he sought beautiful Tirzah For his Eyelids were narrowd, & his Nostrils scented the ground And Sixty Winters Los raged in the Divisions of Reuben: Building the Moon of Ulro, plank by plank & rib by rib 5Reuben slept in the Cave of Adam, and Los folded his Tongue Between Lips of mire & clay, then sent him forth over Jordan In the love of Tirzah he said Doubt is my food day & night— All that beheld him fled howling and gnawed their tongues For pain: they became what they beheld[.] In reasonings Reuben returned 10To Heshbon. disconsolate he walkd thro Moab & he stood Before the Furnaces of Los in a horrible dreamful slumber, On Mount Gilead looking toward Gilgal: and Los bended His Ear in a spiral circle outward; then sent him over Jordan.
The Seven Nations fled before him they became what they beheld 15Hand, Hyle & Coban fled: they became what they beheld Gwantock & Peachy hid in Damascus beneath Mount Lebanon Brereton & Slade in Egypt. Hutton & Skofeld & Kox Fled over Chaldea in terror in pains in every nerve Kotope & Bowen became what they beheld, fleeing over the Earth 20And the Twelve Female Emanations fled with them agonizing. Jerusalem trembled seeing her Children drivn by Los's Hammer In the visions of the dreams of Beulah on the edge of Non-Entity Hand stood between Reuben & Merlin, as the Reasoning Spectre Stands between the Vegetative Man & his Immortal Imagination
25And the Four Zoa's clouded rage East & West & North & South They change their situations, in the Universal Man. Albion groans, he sees the Elements divide before his face. And England who is Brittannia divided into Jerusalem & Vala And Urizen assumes the East, Luvah assumes the South 30In his dark Spectre ravening from his open Sepulcher And the Four Zoa's who are the Four Eternal Senses of Man Became Four Elements separating from the Limbs of Albion These are their names in the Vegetative Generation [West Weighing East & North dividing Generation South bounding] 35And Accident & Chance were found hidden in Length Bredth & Highth And they divided into Four ravening deathlike Forms Fairies & Genii & Nymphs & Gnomes of the Elements. These are States Permanently Fixed by the Divine Power
The Atlantic Continent sunk round Albions cliffy shore 40And the Sea poured in amain upon the Giants of Albion As Los bended the Senses of Reuben Reuben is Merlin Exploring the Three States of Ulro; Creation; Redemption. & Judgment
And many of the Eternal Ones laughed after their manner
Have you known the judgment that is arisen among the 45Zoa's of Albion? where a Man dare hardly to embrace His own Wife, for the terrors of Chastity that they call By the name of Morality. their Daughters govern all In hidden deceit! they are Vegetable only fit for burning Art & Science cannot exist but by Naked Beauty displayd
50Then those in Great Eternity who contemplate on Death Said thus. What seems to Be: Is: To those to whom It seems to Be, & is productive of the most dreadful Consequences to those to whom it seems to Be: even of Torments, Despair, Eternal Death; but the Divine Mercy 55Steps beyond and Redeems Man in the Body of Jesus Amen And Length Bredth Highth again Obey the Divine Vision Hallelujah
