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31 Second: the creative flux of being alternates from a full participation in Divine energies to its reciprocal, the sleep of Beulah. Albion sleeps in Beulah protected by the daughters. It is during this sleep that the finite is created as his 'dream', though the daughters are not active within it. Thus, from the perspective of the daughters "Eternal Death" is a state beyond their comprehension. To Beulah, the time/space continuum of the circle of destiny, or Ulro, is sharply separated from them in the infinite. Direct communication ends, until Christ descends, when the daughters close the "Gate of the Tongue" (K. I. 108). The power of regeneration belongs to the Divine and is made possible only by Christ's descent into the finite, his crucifixion, resurrection, and second coming. These proofs of redemption occur in Night the Eighth: "We now behold the Ends of Beulah, & we now behold 240 "Where death Eternal is put off Eternally. "Assume the dark Satanic body in the Virgin's womb, "0 Lamb Divine." it cannot thee annoy. 0 pitying one, "Thy pity is from the foundation of the World. & thy Redemption "Begun Already in Eternity. Come then. 0 Lamb of God, 245 "Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." So sang they in Eternity, looking down into Beulah. (K. VIII. 239-246] Thus, in the total mythic structure of Blake, the finite and the infinite co-exist, and Beulah is "Eternally created by the Lamb of God around,/ On all sides, within & without the Universal Man" (K. I. 97-98). The perspective of the finite provided by Beulah permits the reader to view the circle of destiny from without. It should be noted that 'within' the circle, the Spectre does not emerge as an independent entity until after the gate of prophetic communication is closed. Thus the lines" "He spurn'd Enion with his foot; he sprang aloft in Clouds/Alighting |