Plate 74

The Four Zoa's clouded rage; Urizen stood by Albion With Rintrah and Palamabron and Theotormon and Bromion These Four are Verulam & London & York & Edinburgh And the Four Zoa's are Urizen & Luvah & Tharmas & Urthona In opposition deadly, and their Wheels in poisonous And deadly stupor turn'd against each other loud & fierce Entering into the Reasoning Power, forsaking Imagination They became Spectres; & their Human Bodies were reposed In Beulah, by the Daughters of Beulah with tears & lamentations

The Spectre is the Reasoning Power in Man; & when separated From Imagination, and closing itself as in steel, in a Ratio Of the Things of Memory. It thence frames Laws & Moralities To destroy Imagination! the Divine Body, by Martyrdoms & Wars

Teach me O Holy Spirit the Testimony of Jesus! let me Comprehend wonderous things out of the Divine Law I behold Babylon in the opening Street of London, I behold Jerusalem in ruins wandering about from house to house This I behold the shudderings of death attend my steps I walk up and down in Six Thousand Years: their Events are present before me To tell how Los in grief & anger, whirling round his Hammer on high Drave the Sons & Daughters of Albion from their ancient mountains They became the Twelve Gods of Asia Opposing the Divine Vision

The Sons of Albion are Twelve: the Sons of Jerusalem Sixteen I tell how Albions Sons by Harmonies of Concords & Discords Opposed to Melody, and by Lights & Shades, opposed to Outline And by Abstraction opposed to the Visions of Imagination

By cruel Laws divided Sixteen into Twelve Divisions How Hyle roofd Los in Albions Cliffs by the Affections rent Asunder & opposed to Thought, to draw Jerusalems Sons Into the Vortex of his Wheels. therefore Hyle is called Gog Age after age drawing them away towards Babylon Babylon, the Rational Morality deluding to death the little ones In strong temptations of stolen beauty; I tell how Reuben slept On London Stone & the Daughters of Albion ran around admiring His awful beauty: with Moral Virtue the fair deciever; offspring Of Good & Evil, they divided him in love upon the Thames & sent Him over Europe in streams of gore out of Cathedrons Looms How Los drave them from Albion & they became Daughters of Canaan Hence Albion was calld the Canaanite & all his Giant Sons. Hence is my Theme. O Lord my Saviour open thou the Gates And I will lead forth thy Words, telling how the Daughters Cut the Fibres of Reuben, how he rolld apart & took Root In Bashan, terror-struck Albions Sons look toward Bashan They have divided Simeon he also rolld apart in blood Over the Nations till he took Root beneath the shining Looms Of Albions Daughters in Philistea by the side of Amalek They have divided Levi: he hath shot out into Forty eight Roots Over the Land of Canaan: they have divided Judah He hath took Root in Hebron, in the Land of Hand & Hyle Dan: Napthali: Gad: Asher: Issachar: Zebulun: roll apart From all the Nations of the Earth to dissipate into Non Entity

I see a Feminine Form arise from the Four terrible Zoas Beautiful but terrible struggling to take a form of beauty Rooted in Shechem: this is Dinah, the youthful form of Erin The Wound I see in South Molton S[t]reet & Stratford place Whence Joseph & Benjamin rolld apart away from the Nations In vain they rolld apart; they are fixd into the Land of Cabul