Песни Невинности и Опыта

9. Снежнобров, грозен ликом, распростер над пучиной свои вездесущие крылья.

10. Вспыхнула в небе десница с копьем, щит отставлен; между огненных игл явилась длань мести, новоявленное чудо извергла в звездную тьму.

11. Молнии, молнии мечет!

12. В небо, в небо гляди! О лондонский житель, крепись! Брось, Иудей, свое злато! Воротись к вину и елею! О Африканец! О черный! (Сойди, крылатая мысль, чело его укрепи.)

13. Молнии-длани, иглы огня, как севшее солнце в западное море.

14. Восстав от вечного сна, излилась первостихия. 15, Повержен ревнивый король, крыльями бил он

вотще; его седобровые старцы, громобои-воители, наморщенные соратники смешались средь шлемов, щитов, колесниц и коней, слонов и знамен, укреплений, пращей и камней.

16. Повержены, гибнут, бегут! Погребены под руинами, тонут в пещерах Уртоны;

17. Вся тьма под руинами; их зловещее пламя угасло, стоят вкруг поблекшего короля.

18. В огне и грохоте, выводя свое звездное воинство опустошенной землей, отдает свои десять приказов, сверкая очами над бездной в страхе кромешном.

19. Где с востока сын пламени в облаке светлом, пока утро чистит перья златые свои,

20. Испещренные проклятьями тучи рвет в клочья, во прах топчет скрижали закона, вечных коней выпуская из логова тьмы, провозглашая:

ИМПЕРИИ БОЛЬШЕ НЕТ!

Хор:

Нет боле ни хриплых проклятий черных Священников Врана зари сыновьям наслажденья! Ни его многочисленной братии, кою нарек он свободною - вервье вязать и своды возвесть. Ни жалких церковных запретов, именующих девственными тех, кто возжелал и не сделал!

ИБО ВСЕ ЖИВОЕ СВЯЩЕННО!

THE MARRIAGE of HEAVEN and HELL

The Argument.

Rintrah roars shakes his fires in the Hungry clouds swag on the deep

Once meek, and in a perilous path, The just man kept his course along The vale of death. Roses are planted where thorns grow. And on the barren heath Sing the honey bees.

Then the perilous path was planted: And a river, and a spring On every cliff and tomb; And on the bleached bones Red clay brought forth.

Till the villain left the paths of ease, To walk in perilous paths, and drive The just man into barren climes.

Now the sneaking serpent walks In mild humility. And the just man rages in the wilds Where lions roam.

Rintrah roars shakes his fires in the Hungry clouds swag on the deep. ____________________________________________

As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent: the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb; his writings are the linen clothes folded up. Now is the dominion of Edom, the return of Adam into Paradise; see Isaiah XXXIV XXXV Chap: Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason[.] Evil is the active springing from Energy. Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.

The voice of the Devil

All Bibles or sacred codes. have been the causes of the following Errors. 1. That Man has two real existing principles Viz: a Body a Soul. 2 That Energy. calld Evil. is alone from the Body. that Reason. calld Good. is alone from the Soul. 3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies. But the following Contraries to these are True 1 Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that calld Body is a portion of Soul discernd by the five Senses. the chief inlets of Soul in this age 2. Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy. 3 Energy is Eternal Delight

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place governs the unwilling. And being restraind it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire. The history of this is written in Paradise Lost. the Governor or Reason is call'd Messiah. And the original Archangel or possessor of the command of the heavenly host, is calld the Devil or Satan and his children are call'd Sin Death But in the Book of Job Miltons Messiah is call'd Satan. For this history has been adopted by both parties It indeed appear'd to Reason as if Desire was cast out. but the

Devils account is, that the Messiah fell. formed a heaven of what he stole from the Abyss This is shewn in the Gospel, where he prays to the Father to send the comforter or Desire that Reason may have Ideas to build on, the Jehovah of the Bible being no other than he, who dwells in flaming fire. Know that after Christs death, he became Jehovah. But in Milton; the Father is Destiny, the Son, a Ratio of the five senses. the Holy-ghost, Vacuum! Note. The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels God, and at liberty when of Devils Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it

A Memorable Fancy.