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represents the principle of mundane sacrifice, she must accept the sacrifice and attempt to spiritualize it through the attractive power of her mundane love. However, in the post-lapsarian state Luvah's impulse has lost its ideal relation to Divine passion, and so he believes his experience of eternal death is beyond the knowledge of Christ:

O Lamb

100 "Of God clothed in Luvah's garments! little

knowest thou

"Of death Eternal, that we all go to Eternal Death,

"To our Primeval Chaos in fortuitous concourse of

incoherent

"Discordant principles of Love & Hate.

(K. II. 99-103)

Vala receives an impulse of "Discordant principles" and responds in ecstatic state of sado-masochistic "Love & Hate." As with all of the other Zoas and Emanations, hatred succeeds love after the fall.

Luvah speech "from the furnaces of Urizen" (K. II. 80) begins with the "cold & dark obscure" (K. II. 83) that can be thought of as Luvah's equivalent to the Spectre of Tharmas' "dark & dismal infinite where thought roams up & down" (K. I. 155). In other words. Luvah's perceptions begin with a point of view, which comes into being after the fall. The "cold & dark obscure" represents Luvah's initial consciousness of finite being. Luvah traces Vala's growth from a worm, to a serpent, to a dragon, to an infant, to the mother of Luvah*s "sons & daughters" (K. II. 97). This evolution of her psychosexual growth is paralleled by a sequence of water imagery. After "rains & dews" (K. II. 84) Vala is fed with "springs" (K. II. 88), then with the water from the "floodgates of the heavens" (K. II. 90) until the "Great deep" (K. II. 91) hides her and she becomes a "little weeping Infant