Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 44a
With one accord in love sublime, & as on Cherubs wingsThey Albion surround with kindest violence to bear him backAgainst his will thro Los's Gate to Eden: Four-fold; loud!Their Wings waving over the bottomless Immense: to bear5Their awful charge back to his native home: but Albion dark,Repugnant; rolld his Wheels backward into Non-EntityLoud roll the Starry Wheels of Albion into the World of DeathAnd all the Gate of Los, clouded with clouds redounding fromAlbions dread Wheels, stretching out spaces immense between10That every little particle of light & air, became OpakeBlack & immense, a Rock of difficulty & a CliffOf black despair; that the immortal Wings labourd againstCliff after cliff, & over Valleys of despair & death:The narrow Sea between Albion & the Atlantic Continent:15Its waves of pearl became a boundless Ocean bottomless,Of grey obscurity, filld with clouds & rocks & whirling watersAnd Albions Sons ascending & descending in the horrid Void.
But as the Will must not be bended but in the day of DivinePower: silent calm & motionless, in the mid-air sublime,20The Family Divine hover around the darkend Albion.
Such is the nature of the Ulro: that whatever enters:Becomes Sexual, & is Created, and Vegetated, and Born.From Hyde Park spread their vegetating roots beneath AlbionIn dreadful pain the Spectrous Uncircumcised Vegetation.
25Forming a Sexual Machine: an Aged Virgin Form,In Erins Land toward the north, joint after joint & burningIn love & jealousy immingled & calling it ReligionAnd feeling the damps of death they with one accord delegated LosConjuring him by the Highest that he should Watch over them30Till Jesus shall appear: & they gave their power to LosNaming him the Spirit of Prophecy, calling him Elijah
Strucken with Albions disease they become what they behold;They assimilate with Albion in pity & compassion;Their Emanations return not: their Spectres rage in the Deep35The Slumbers of Death came over them around the Couch of DeathBefore the Gate of Los & in the depths of Non EntityAmong the Furnaces of Los: among the Oaks of Albion.
Man is adjoind to Man by his Emanative portion:Who is Jerusalem in every individual Man: and her40Shadow is Vala, builded by the Reasoning power in ManO search & see: turn your eyes inward: open O thou WorldOf Love & Harmony in Man: expand thy ever lovely Gates.
They wept into the deeps a little space at length was heardThe voice of Bath, faint as the voice of the Dead in the House of Death