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1. Возопила Жена Вечная! Слышно по всей Земле.

2. Болен брег Альбиона, безмолвен; луга Америки вянут!

3. В озерах и реках встают тени пророчеств - грохочут за океан:

темницу, Франция, рушь!

4. Златая Испания, смети препоны ветхого Рима!

5. Брось ключи свои, Рим, прямо в бездну, в бездну на самое дно!

6. И восплачь!

7. Новоявленный ужас, рычащий, в длани грозящей ея.

8. Над горами бескрайними света, там за Атлантикой, новоявленный

огнь предстал Князю Звезд!

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.

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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.

As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the

enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and

insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs: thinking that as

the sayings used in a nation, mark its character, so the Proverbs

of Hell, shew the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any

description of buildings or garments.

When I came home; on the abyss of the five senses, where a

flat sided steep frowns over the present world. I saw a mighty

Devil folded in black clouds, hovering on the sides of the rock,

with corroding fires he wrote the following sentence now

percieved by the minds of men, & read by them on earth.

How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,

Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?

Proverbs of Hell.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

Dip him in the river who loves water.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no

measure.

All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap.

Bring out number weight & measure in a year of dearth.

No bird soars too high. if he soars with his own wings.

A dead body. revenges not injuries.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise

Folly is the cloke of knavery.

Shame is Prides cloke.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the

stormy sea, and the destructive sword. are portions of

eternity too great for the eye of man.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

Let man wear the fell of the lion. woman the fleece of the sheep.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The selfish smiling fool. & the sullen frowning fool shall be

both thought wise. that they may be a rod.

What is now proved was once, only imagin'd.

The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet; watch the roots, the

the horse, the elephant, watch the fruits.

The cistern contains: the fountain overflows

One thought. fills immensity.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn

The fox provides for himself. but God provides for the lion.

Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep

He who has sufferd you to impose on him knows you.

As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers.

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

Expect poison from the standing water.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than

Listen to the fools reproach! it is a kingly title!

The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, the

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the

how he shall take his prey.

The thankful reciever bears a plentiful harvest.

If others had not been foolish. we should be so.

The soul of sweet delight. can never be defil'd,

When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius lift up

As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on,

lays his curse on the fairest joys.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

Damn. braces: Bless relaxes.

The best wine is the oldest. the best water the newest.

Prayers plow not! Praises reap not!

Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands

Proportion.

As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the

The crow wish'd every thing was black, the owl, that every thing

Exuberance is Beauty.

If the lion was advised by the fox. he would be cunning.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without

Improvement, are roads of Genius. t148

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires

Where man is not nature is barren.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be

Enough! or Too much

The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or

Geniuses calling them by the names and adorning them with the

properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations,

and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could percieve.

And particularly they studied the genius of each city &

country. placing it under its mental deity.

Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of &

enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the

mental deities from their objects: thus began Priesthood.

Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales.

And at length they pronounced that the Gods had orderd such

things.

Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.

A Memorable Fancy.

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked

them how they dared so roundly to assert. that God spake to them;

and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be

misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.

Isaiah answer'd. I saw no God. nor heard any, in a finite

organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in

every thing, and as I was then perswaded. & remain confirm'd;

that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared

not for consequences but wrote.

Then I asked: does a firm perswasion that a thing is so, make it

He replied. All poets believe that it does, & in ages of

this firm perswasion removed mountains; but many are not capable

of a firm perswasion of any thing.

Then Ezekiel said. The philosophy of the east taught the first

principles of human perception some nations held one

principle for the origin & some another, we of Israel taught

that the Poetic Genius (as you now call it) was the first

principle and all the others merely derivative, which was the

cause of our despising the Priests & Philosophers of other

countries, and propheying that all Gods would at last be

proved. to originate in ours & to be the tributaries of the

Poetic Genius, it was this. that our great poet King David

desired so fervently & invokes so patheticly, saying by this he

conquers enemies & governs kingdoms; and we so loved our God.

that we cursed in his name all the deities of surrounding

nations, and asserted that they had rebelled; from these opinions

the vulgar came to think that all nations would at last be

subject to the jews.

This said he, like all firm perswasions, is come to pass, for all

nations believe the jews code and worship the jews god, and what

greater subjection can be

I heard this with some wonder, & must confess my own

conviction. After dinner I ask'd Isaiah to favour the world with

his lost works, he said none of equal value was lost. Ezekiel

said the same of his.

I also asked Isaiah what made him go naked and barefoot three

years? he answerd, the same that made our friend Diogenes the

I then asked Ezekiel. why he eat dung, & lay so long on his

right & left side? he answerd. the desire of raising other men

into a perception of the infinite this the North American tribes

practise. & is he honest who resists his genius or conscience.

only for the sake of present ease or gratification?

The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire

at the end of six thousand years is true. as I have heard from

For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to

leave his guard at the tree of life, and when he does, the whole

creation will be consumed, and appear infinite. and holy whereas

it now appears finite & corrupt.

This will come to pass by a improvement of sensual enjoyment.

But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his

soul, is to be expunged; this I shall do, by printing in the

infernal method, by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and

medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the

infinite which was hid.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would

appear to man as it is: infinite.

For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro'

narrow chinks of his cavern.

A Memorable Fancy

I was in a Printing house in Hell & saw the method in which

knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

In the first chamber was a Dragon-Man, clearing away the

rubbish from a caves mouth; within, a number of Dragons were

hollowing the cave,

In the second chamber was a Viper folding round the rock & the

cave, and others adorning it with gold silver and precious stones.

In the third chamber was an Eagle with wings and feathers of

air, he caused the inside of the cave to be infinite, around were

numbers of Eagle like men, who built palaces in the immense cliffs.

In the fourth chamber were Lions of flaming fire raging around

& melting the metals into living fluids.

In the fifth chamber were Unnam'd forms, which cast the metals

into the expanse.

There they were reciev'd by Men who occupied the sixth

chamber, and took the forms of books & were arranged in libraries.

The Giants who formed this world into its sensual existence

and now seem to live in it in chains; are in truth the causes

of its life & the sources of all activity, but the chains are,

the cunning of weak and tame minds. which have power to resist

energy. according to the proverb, the weak in courage is strong

in cunning.

Thus one portion of being, is the Prolific. the other, the

Devouring: to the devourer it seems as if the producer was in

his chains, but it is not so, he only takes portions of existence

and fancies that the whole.

But the Prolific would cease to be Prolific unless the

Devourer as a sea recieved the excess of his delights.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God

only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

These two classes of men are always upon earth, & they should

be enemies; whoever tries to reconcile them seeks to destroy

Religion is an endeavour to reconcile the two.

Note. Jesus Christ did not wish to unite but to seperate

them, as in the Parable of sheep and goats! & he says I came not

to send Peace but a Sword.

Messiah or Satan or Tempter was formerly thought to be one of

the Antediluvians who are our Energies.

A Memorable Fancy

An Angel came to me and said. O pitiable foolish young man!

O horrible! O dreadful state! consider the hot burning dungeon

thou art preparing for thyself to all eternity, to which thou art

going in such career.

I said. perhaps you will be willing to shew me my eternal

lot & we will contemplate together upon it and see whether your

lot or mine is most desirable

So he took me thro' a stable & thro' a church & down into

the church vault at the end of which was a mill: thro' the mill

we went, and came to a cave. down the winding cavern we groped

our tedious way till a void boundless as a nether sky appeard

beneath us & we held by the roots of trees and hung over this

immensity; but I said, if you please we will commit ourselves

to this void and see whether providence is here also, if you

will not I will? but he answerd. do not presume O young-man but

as we here remain behold thy lot which will soon appear when the

darkness passes away

So I remaind with him sitting in the twisted root of

an oak. he was suspended in a fungus which hung with the head

downward into the deep:

By degrees we beheld the infinite Abyss, fiery as the smoke

of a burning city; beneath us at an immense distance was the sun,

black but shining[;] round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd

vast spiders, crawling after their prey; which flew or rather

swum in the infinite deep, in the most terrific shapes of animals

sprung from corruption. & the air was full of them, & seemd

composed of them; these are Devils. and are called Powers of the

air, I now asked my companion which was my eternal lot? he said,

between the black & white spiders

But now, from between the black & white spiders a cloud and

fire burst and rolled thro the deep blackning all beneath, so

that the nether deep grew black as a sea & rolled with a terrible

noise: beneath us was nothing now to be seen but a black tempest,

till looking east between the clouds & the waves, we saw a

cataract of blood mixed with fire and not many stones throw from

us appeard and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstrous serpent.

at last to the east, distant about three degrees appeard a fiery

crest above the waves slowly it reared like a ridge of golden

rocks till we discoverd two globes of crimson fire. from which

the sea fled away in clouds of smoke, and now we saw, it was the

head of Leviathan. his forehead was divided into streaks of green

& purple like those on a tygers forehead: soon we saw his mouth &

red gills hang just above the raging foam tinging the black deep

with beams of bood, advancing toward us with all the

fury of a spiritual existence.

My friend the Angel climb'd up from his station into the mill;

I remain'd alone, & then this appearance was no more, but I found

myself sitting on a pleasant bank beside a river by moon light

hearing a harper who sung to the harp. & his theme was, The man

who never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds

reptiles of the mind.

But I arose, and sought for the mill, & there I found my

Angel, who surprised asked me, how I escaped?

I answerd. All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics: for

when you ran away, I found myself on a bank by moonlight hearing

a harper, But now we have seen my eternal lot, shall I shew you

yours? he laughd at my proposal: but I by force suddenly caught

him in my arms, & flew westerly thro' the night, till we were

elevated above the earths shadow: then I flung myself with him

directly into the body of the sun, here I clothed myself in

white, & taking in my hand Swedenborgs volumes sunk from the

glorious clime, and passed all the planets till we came to

saturn, here I staid to rest & then leap'd into the void, between

saturn & the fixed stars.

Here said I! is your lot, in this space, if space it may be

calld, Soon we saw the stable and the church, & I took him to the

altar and open'd the Bible, and lo! it was a deep pit, into which

I descended driving the Angel before me, soon we saw seven houses

of brick, one we enterd; in it were anumber of monkeys,

baboons, & all of that species chaind by the middle, grinning and

snatching at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their

chains: however I saw that they sometimes grew numerous, and then

the weak were caught by the strong and with a grinning aspect,

first coupled with & then devourd, by plucking off first one limb

and then another till the body was left a helpless trunk this

after grinning & kissing it with seeming fondness they devourd

too; and here & there I saw one savourily picking the flesh off

of his own tail; as the stench terribly annoyd us both we went

into the mill, & I in my hand brought the skeleton of a body,

which in the mill was Aristotles Analytics.

So the Angel said: thy phantasy has imposed upon me & thou

oughtest to be ashamed.

I answerd: we impose on one another, & it is but lost time

to converse with you whose works are only Analytics.

Opposition is true Friendship.

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of

themselves as the only wise; this they do with a confident

insolence sprouting from systematic reasoning:

Thus Swedenborg boasts that what he writes is new; tho' it

is only the Contents or Index of already publish'd books

A man carried a monkey about for a shew, & because he was a

little wiser than the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd himself as

wiser than seven men. It is so with Swedenborg; he shews the

folly of churches & exposes hypocrites, till he imagines that all

are religious. & himself the single one on earth that ever broke a

Now hear a plain fact: Swedenborg has not written one new

truth: Now hear another: he has written all the old falshoods.

And now hear the reason. He conversed with Angels who are

all religious, & conversed not with Devils who all hate religion,

for he was incapable thro' his conceited notions.

Thus Swedenborgs writings are a recapitulation of all

superficial opinions, and an analysis of the more sublime, but no

Have now another plain fact: Any man of mechanical talents

may from the writings of Paracelsus or Jacob Behmen, produce ten

thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborg's.

and from those of Dante or Shakespear, an infinite number.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows

better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

A Memorable Fancy

Once I saw a Devil in a flame of fire. who arose before an

Angel that sat on a cloud. and the Devil utterd these words.

The worship of God is. Honouring his gifts in other men

each according to his genius. and loving the greatest men

best, those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there

is no other God.

The Angel hearing this became almost blue but mastering

himself he grew yellow, & at last white pink & smiling, and then

Thou Idolater, is not God One? & is not he visible in Jesus

Christ? and has not Jesus Christ given his sanction to the law of

ten commandments and are not all other men fools, sinners, &

The Devil answer'd; bray a fool in a morter with wheat. yet

shall not his folly be beaten out of him: if Jesus Christ is the

greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now

hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten

commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the

sabbaths God? murder those who were murderd because of him? turn

away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of

others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making

a defence before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples,

and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against

such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist

without breaking these ten commandments: Jesus was all virtue,

and acted from impulse: not from rules.

When he had so spoken: I beheld the Angel who stretched out

his arms embracing the flame of fire & he was consumed and arose

as Elijah.

Note. This Angel, who is now become a Devil, is my

particular friend: we often read the Bible together in its

infernal or diabolical sense which the world shall have if they

behave well

I have also: The Bible of Hell: which the world shall have

whether they will or no.

One Law for the Lion & Ox is Oppression

A Song of Liberty

1. The Eternal Female groand! it was heard over all the Earth:

2. Albions coast is sick silent; the American meadows faint!

3 Shadows of Prophecy shiver along by the lakes and the rivers

and mutter across the ocean! France rend down thy dungeon;

4. Golden Spain burst the barriers of old Rome;

5. Cast thy keys O Rome into the deep down falling, even to

eternity down falling,

6. And weep!

7. In her trembling hands she took the new, born terror howling;

8. On those infinite mountains of light now barr'd out by the

atlantic sea, the new born fire stood before the starry king!

9. Flag'd with grey brow'd snows and thunderous visages the

jealous wings wav'd over the deep.

10. The speary hand burned aloft, unbuckled was the shield,

forth went the hand of jealousy among the flaming hair, and

hurl'd the new born wonder thro' the starry night.

11. The fire, the fire, is falling!

12. Look up! look up! O citizen of London. enlarge thy

countenance; O Jew, leave counting gold! return to thy oil and

wine; O African! black African! (go. winged thought widen his

13. The fiery limbs, the flaming hair,shot like the sinking sun

into the western sea.

14. Wak'd from his eternal sleep, the hoary, element roaring fled

15. Down rushd beating his wings in vain the jealous king: his

grey brow'd councellors, thunderous warriors, curl'd veterans,

among helms, and shields, and chariots horses, elephants:

banners, castles, slings and rocks,

16. Falling, rushing, ruining! buried in the ruins, on Urthona's

17. All night beneath the ruins, then their sullen flames faded

emerge round the gloomy king,

18. With thunder and fire: leading his starry hosts thro' the waste

he promulgates his ten commands,

glancing his beamy eyelids over the deep in dark dismay,

19. Where the son of fire in his eastern cloud, while the

morning plumes her golden breast,

20. Spurning the clouds written with curses, stamps the stony

law to dust, loosing the eternal horses from the dens of night,

Empire is no more! and now the lion & wolf shall cease.

Chorus

Let the Priests of the Raven of dawn, no longer in deadly

black, with hoarse note curse the sons of joy. Nor his accepted

brethren whom, tyrant, he calls free; lay the bound or build the

roof. Nor pale religious letchery call that virginity, that

wishes but acts not!

For every thing that lives is Holy

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