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54 260 Pitying, the Lamb of God descended thro' Jerusalem's gates To put off Mystery time after time; & as a Man Is born on Earth, so was he born of Fair Jerusalem In mystery's woven mantle. So in the Robes of Luvah. He stood in fair Jerusalem to awake up into Eden 265 The fallen man. (K. VIII. 260-265) The penciled emendation to Night the First has Jerusalem asleep in Beulah to balance Albion's sleep, appropriately before the "gates" between the infinite and the finite: 560 The Daughters of Beulah beheld the Emanation; they pitied, 561 They wept before the Inner gates of Enitharmon's bosom 562 , And of her fine wrought brain, & of her bowels within her loins. Three gates within. Glorious & bright, open into [Eternity
del.] Beulah From Enitharmon's inward parts; but the bright female terror 565 Refus'd to open the bright gates; she clos'd and barr'd them fast Lest Los should enter into Beulah thro' her beautiful gates. The Emanation stood before the Gates of Enitharmon, Weeping; the Daughters of Beulah silent in the Porches Spread her a couch unknown to Enitharmon; here repos'd 570 Jerusalem in slumbers soft, lull'd into silent rest. ck. I. 560-570)
Night the First ends with Albion and Jerusalem fallen. He is guarded by the seven eyes and seven lamps, and she by the daughters of Beulah; the structural relations of Albion's infinite being are thereby drawn. Albion's disordered component energies exude into the finite and are closed off from infinite vision; the structural relations of Albion's finite being are thereby drawn: Terrific rag'd the Eternal wheels of intellect, terrific rag'd The living creatures of the wheels, in the Wars of Eternal life. But perverse roli'd the wheels of Urizen & Luvah, back revers'd Downwards & outwards, [bending del.] consuming in the wars of Eternal Death. (K. I. 571-574) |