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The theme of carnage established in the song at the feast of Los and Enitharmon is recapitulated. The "lions" of regal power are called to the "field of blood," and the "tygers " are called out of "the halls of justice" to lend their sublime energies of power and wrath to the carnage. Luvah's mundane passion no longer contributes the purifying energies of wrath to the process of justice; therefore "the halls of justice" become "dens," which, despite their external "Golden & beautiful" appearance, in fact obliterate justice. The "sweet fields of bliss/Where liberty was justice & eternal science was mercy" now become the "field of blood." Liberty, which meets its ideal response in justice, becomes the source of war; and science, in eternity the source of the order of mercy, becomes the violent enforcement of injustice.

After her analysis of the inversion of the relation between liberty and justice, now reconciled only by war, Ahania gives her account of the fall, the cause of the inversion. In common with previous accounts (given by Enitharmon, Los, and the messengers of Beulah to the Council of God), Ahania's account stresses the usurpation of Divine passion by mundane passion. It should be noted that the accounts of Enitharmon and Ahania are given by feminine component energies of Albion. The two Emanations are 'within the mansion' or consciousness of Albion, and their stories describe Albion's warring energies. Thus, both their accounts are within a vision or dream and reflect an inward perspective 'looking out'. By contrast, the account of the messengers of Beulah is on the plane of reference of the infinite and reflects the perspective of an outside observer. In other terms, the accounts of the Emanations are finite versions of an