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36 220 And drawing in the spectrous life in pride and haughty joy. 221 Thus Enion gave them all her spectrous life [in deep despair. del.] (K. I. 217-221) After her energies have been drawn, Enion is repelled into "Non Entity." She revolves round the limit of being, or the circumference of the circle of destiny. The earlier dissolution of Tharmas into his circle of destiny is balanced by Enion's presence at its circumference. The relationship between their masculine and feminine energies is thereby consolidated at the limit of generation and being in the first universe of The Four Zoas. A late addition by Blake provides the perspective of the daughters of Beulah. To them, Albion's exudation seems but an "atom" ornamented "Into Infinitude" by Eno, for with the limits of generation and being established, the daughters can now give a specific time to Ulro and a specific meaning to its space: Then Eno, a daughter of Beulah, took a Moment of Time And drew it out to [twenty years del.] seven thousand years with much care & affliction And many tears, & in (the) [twenty del.] every year(s) [gave visions toward heaven del.] made windows into Eden. 225 She also took an atom of space & opened its centre 226 Into Infinitude & ornamented it with wondrous art. 227 Astonish'd sat her sisters of Beulah to see her soft affections To Enion & her children, & they ponder'd these things wond'ring, And they Alternate kept watch over the Youthful terrors. 230 They saw not yet the Hand Divine, for it was not yet reveal'd, But they went on in silent Hope & Feminine repose. (K. I. 222-231) While the component energies of the Eternal Man have their perceptual limits defined within the finite, those in the infinite are without. Accordingly, Los and Enitharmon live as independent and divided energies within the time/space continuum: |