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JERUSALEM II.
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when roofed in Albion's cliffs, dyiug thus for him for kind- ness. He roused up all bis affections (bis cities) and bis sons and daughters became as pleasant clouds, for the flesh, wben mind is free from the mistaken belief in its opacity, is a pleasant cloud, and so are all its reasonings (sons) and its loves (daughters).

P. 96, l. 41. — Then Man became alive in all bis fourfold regions, and so walked in their unity in the vision of God, not in the mere delusive ligbt of Time and Space.

P. 97, ll. 1 to 17. — Awake Jerusalem! (was this page intended to follow page 83 ? The intermediate ones cannot be spared,) with this cry the last and final vision is described in symbols that explain themselves as a picture of truth, such as only by vision can we know for certain.

P. 98, ll. 1 to 56. — It covers the next page.

P. 99, ll. 1 to 5. — Finally the released Jerusalem is seen as the love that when made alive by mind, unites its living members into one body, for such is the act of love when aroused by sympathy, which is Imagination, or Christ.

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