`within' he is at the centre of this dimension with a circumference, nadir and zenith.

My third hypothesis is that Blake developed a coherent religious, apophatic vision. Blake was not a systematic theologian and so his theology is implicit rather than explicit. For example, a second act of Divine intervention occurs when Christ descends into Golgonooza in human form in the limit of Adam, as Satan forms in the Temple in the limit of Opacity. Eternal death is thereby put off. It should be noted in Blake's poem of the Incarnation, that Los is not Blake's Christ, and in his poetic Theodicy, Urizen is not Blake's Satan.

Freed from the perceptual confines of finitude by Christ's second coming, Albion is released from serial time and sorrow and enters a three day cycle of purification, which reorganizes his component energies and culminates in the harvest and vintage. This latter pattern of action concludes with Albion's component energies restored to unity, in the eschatological Eden as the regenerate Perousia. The line by line textual analysis and critical commentary allows the poem's mythology and plot to be harmonized with Blake's language and

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