His dictate; and his body was the Rock Sinai: that body,
15Which was on earth born to corruption: & the six Females
Are Hor & Peor & Bashan & Abarim & Lebanon & Hermon,
Seven rocky masses terrible in the Desarts of Midian.
But Milton's Human Shadow continu'd journeying above
The rocky masses of The Mundane Shell; in the Lands
20Of Edom & Aram & Moab & Midian & Amalek.
The Mundane Shell is a vast Concave Earth: an immense
Harden'd shadow of all things upon our Vegetated Earth,
Enlarg'd into dimension & deform'd into indefinite space,
In Twenty-seven Heavens and all their Hells; with Chaos
25And Ancient Night; & Purgatory. It is a cavernous Earth
Of labyrinthine intricacy twenty-seven-folds of opakeness,
And finishes where the lark mounts; here Milton journeyed
In that Region call'd Midian, among the rocks of Horeb.
For travellers from Eternity, pass onward to Satan's seat,
30But travellers to Eternity, pass inward to Golgonooza.
Los, the Vehicular terror, beheld him, & divine Enitharmon
Call'd all her daughters, Saying: Surely to unloose my bond
Is this Man come! Satan shall be unloos'd upon Albion!
Los heard in terror Enitharmon's words: in fibrous strength
35His limbs shot forth like roots of trees against the forward path
Of Milton's journey. Urizen beheld the immortal Man.
P. 17 AND he also darken'd his brows: freezing dark rocks between
The footsteps, and infixing deep the feet in marble beds:
That Milton labour'd with his journey, & his feet bled sore
Upon the clay now chang'd to marble; also Urizen rose,
5And met him on the shores of Albion, & by the streams of the brooks.
Silent they met, and silent strove among the streams of Arnon
Even to Mahanaim, when with cold hand Urizen stoop'd down
And took up water from the river Jordan: pouring on
To Milton's brain the icy fluid from his broad cold palm.
10But Milton took of the red clay of Succoth, moulding it with care
Between his palms: and filling up the furrows of many years,
Beginning at the feet of Urizen, and on the bones
Creating new flesh on the Demon cold, and building him,
As with new clay, a Human form in the Valley of Beth Peor.
15Four Universes round the Mundane Egg remain Chaotic.
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