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76 "Now taking on Ahania's form & now the form of Enion, 325 "I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas." (K. II. 318-326) Los lies "on banks of summer/Among the beauties of the World" but experiences "Cold dews & hoary frost" while Enitharmon lies "on clouds of secrecy." He "Still dies for Enitharmon" but in a life/ death cycle of impotency. He is "dead" till he is revived by the "sweet song" of Enitharmon, who in turn dies. Since Enitharmon's energies are limited to the perceptual boundaries of the circle of destiny, her visionary inspiration is limited to the states of being of the other Emanations, the extremes of being in the first universe. In other terms, as formative principles, the Emanations circumscribe the potencies of the Zoas and, together, the Emanations represent the extreme limits of finite existence. Ahania's "form" represents the 'truth' of Urizen's universe She is enshrined in Urizen's palace where, on her altar in the west, she receives burnt sacrifices. Divided from the dynamic of Urizen's energies, Ahania's Hellenic alienation is a parody of truth. Likewise, Enion, at the edge of non-entity, represents a parody of regenerative being. So, when Enitharmon brings the forms of Ahania and Enion to Los by "Now taking on Ahania's form & now the form of Enion," she brings him the extreme forms of both the geometric order of the first universe and its generative cycle. Significantly, Vala is not represented, for the psychosexual dynamics of Luvah and Vala, are sacrificed. Thus, the psychological relations, which determine Los and Enitharmon's life/death cycle, are perverse: |