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"I heard his voice among the branches & among sweet flowers.

(K. I. 260-267)

Albion's consciousness falls instantly into anarchy. As he falls to sleep in the 'night' of eternity, the Zoas and Emanations waken to their 'day'. Simultaneously displaced, Albion's component energies enter finitude, for in worshipping aspects of his own consciousness Albion has replaced the Divine vision with his own imaginative order:

"'Why is the light of Enitharmon darken'd in [her del.]

dewy morn? '

"Why is the silence of Enitharmon a [cloud del.]

terror, & her smile a whirlwind,

270 "'Uttering this darkness in my halls, in the pillars of

my Holy-ones?

"'Why dost thou weep as Vala & wet thy veil with dewy

tears,

"In slumbers of my night-repose infusing a false

morning,

"'Driving the Female Emanations all away from Los?

'I have refus'd to look upon the Universal Vision.

275 "'And wilt thou slay with death him who devotes himself to thee.

(K. I. 268-275)

The "false morning" occurs in the "night-repose" of Albion and is the 'day' of the Zoas and Emanations. However, there is a further comp­lication, for Enitharmon's vision is in her dream. The vision is a dream within a dream, or an inverse doubling of the dream state, and is twice shrunken from the reality of the Divine vision:

"I heard the sounding sea, I heard the voice weaker and

weaker,

280 "The voice came and went like a dream: I awoke in my sweet bliss."

(K. I. 279-280)

Los strikes her before he responds: "Then Los smote her upon the Earth;

'twas long e'er she reviv'd." (K. I. 281). This line is a late penciled addition and should be considered with a similar late addition in which