Plate 89

Tho divided by the Cross & Nails & Thorns & Spear In cruelties of Rahab & Tirzah[,] permanent endure A terrible indefinite Hermaphroditic form A Wine-press of Love & Wrath double Hermaph[r]oditic Twelvefold in Allegoric pomp in selfish holiness The Pharisaion, the Grammateis, the Presbuterion, The Archiereus, the Iereus, the Saddusaion, double Each withoutside of the other, covering eastern heaven

Thus was the Covering Cherub reveald majestic image Of Selfhood, Body put off, the Antichrist accursed Coverd with precious stones, a Human Dragon terrible And bright, stretchd over Europe & Asia gorgeous In three nights he devourd the rejected corse of death

His Head dark, deadly, in its Brain incloses a reflexion Of Eden all perverted; Egypt on the Gihon many tongued And many mouthd: Ethiopia, Lybia, the Sea of Rephaim Minute Particulars in slavery I behold among the brick-kilns Disorganizd, & there is Pharoh in his iron Court: And the Dragon of the River & the Furnaces of iron. Outwoven from Thames & Tweed & Severn awful streams Twelve ridges of Stone frown over all the Earth in tyrant pride Frown over each River stupendous Works of Albions Druid Sons And Albions Forests of Oaks coverd the Earth from Pole to Pole

His Bosom wide reflects Moab & Ammon on the River Pison, since calld Arnon, there is Heshbon beautiful The flocks of Rabbath on the Arnon & the Fish-pools of Heshbon Whose currents flow into the Dead Sea by Sodom & Gomorra Above his Head high arching Wings black filld with Eyes Spring upon iron sinews from the Scapulae & Os Humeri. There Israel in bondage to his Generalizing Gods Molech & Chemosh, & in his left breast is Philistea In Druid Temples over the whole Earth with Victims Sacrifice, From Gaza to Damascus Tyre & Sidon & the Gods Of Javan thro the Isles of Grecia & all Europes Kings Where Hiddekel pursues his course among the rocks Two Wings spring from his ribs of brass, starry, black as night But translucent their blackness as the dazling of gems

His Loins inclose Babylon on Euphrates beautiful And Rome in sweet Hesperia. there Israel scatterd abroad In martydoms & slavery I behold: ah vision of sorrow! Inclosed by eyeless Wings, glowing with fire as the iron Heated in the Smiths forge, but cold the wind of their dread fury

But in the midst of a devouring Stomach, Jerusalem Hidden within the Covering Cherub as in a Tabernacle Of threefold workmanship in allegoric delusion & woe There the Seven Kings of Canaan & Five Baalim of Philistea Sihon & Og the Anakim & Emim, Nephilim & Gibborim From Babylon to Rome & the Wings spread from Japan Where the Red Sea terminates the World of Generation & Death To Irelands farthest rocks where Giants builded their Causeway Into the Sea of Rephaim, but the Sea oerwhelmd them all.

A Double Female now appeard within the Tabernacle, Religion hid in War, a Dragon red & hidden Harlot Each within other, but without a Warlike Mighty-one Of dreadful power, sitting upon Horeb pondering dire And mighty preparations mustering multitudes innumerable Of warlike sons among the sands of Midian & Aram For multitudes of those who sleep in Alla descend Lured by his warlike symphonies of tabret pipe & harp Burst the bottoms of the Graves & Funeral Arks of Beulah[;] Wandering in that unknown Night beyond the silent Grave They become One with the Antichrist & are absorbd in him