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"The Eternal Man wept in the holy tent: Our Brother

in Eternity,

"Even Albion whom thou lovest. wept in pain; his

family

"Slept round on hills & valleys in the regions of

his love.

"But Urizen awoke, & Luvah woke, & thus conferr'd.

(K. I. 484-487^

The speeches attributed to Urizen and Luvah are filled with references to sleep, night, and darkness as their attack on the sleep­ing Albion is described:

"While thus he spoke his fires redden'd [round del.l

o'er the holy tent.

515 "Urizen cast deep darkness round him, silent brooding

death,

"Eternal death to Luvah; raging, Luvah pour'd

"The Lances of Urizen from chariots round the holy

tent.

"Discord began, & yells & cries shook the wide

firmament.

(K. I. S14-518)

The attack provokes the fall:

"Sudden down fell they all together into an unknown

Space,

"Deep, horrible, without End, separated from Beulah,

far beneath.

"The Man's exteriors are become indefinite, open'd

to pain

"In a fierce hungry void, & none can visit his regions. CK. I. 541-544)

The fall is into "an unknown Space," which is finite being. A separation from Beulah occurs and the limits of Albion become "indefinite" and open to "pain/In a fierce hungry void." Albion, and all of his Zoas and Emanations, are in the void, or Ulro, and is shut off from the infinite so that "none can visit his regions."

The Emanation of Albion, Jerusalem, the messengers continue, has fallen too:

545 "Jerusalem, his Emanation, (will soon del.] is become a ruin,