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A Blake dictionary: the ideas and symbols of William Blake
By Samuel Foster Damon, Morris Eaves
page 241 contraction, eve represents the lowest point the senses can fall to in the fallen man
page 6 adam, reason as adam, sense as eve
adam conscious mind
satan subconscious, energy
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JERUSALEM I. 191
P. 22, 11. 1 to 15. But Albion's head being downwards, or
Envy, his heart, Revenge, his loins Cruelty, of deliberate legal
punishment, Jerusalem, in Yala, felt terror the moment the
veil was round him, she being the veil's life. She felt terror,
moral and physical, she felt that to personality, blood means
war and hate, that should mean love, as blood's pre-natal life
meant. She shrinks from Albion's eyes, conscious of her
bodily tendencies, while in his envious soul her bodily inspira-
tion sees the other sin of unforgivingness.
P. 22, 1. 16. Then beneath the silent moon, (the moon is
the feminine locus, now stricken with the dumbness of
Albion's revengeful heart, in which the language of love was
silenced). Albion speaks the language of experience. He has
brought personal love into the light of mental consciousness
day and like Adam in Eden after eating the fruit, causes
innocence, by fancying that it was dead, to be no more. This
is the doctrine that Adam's sin was not the nakedness of
which he was ashamed, but the following of beauty's act with
misguided opinion, the belief that the state of innocence
an eternal state was no more. The shame was then his
disease, and the beginning of his punishment.
P. 22, 11. 21 to 24. Jerusalem continues the doctrine, by
describing the error, not under figure of eating a fruit, but
under that of anatomizing an infant, whose presence is a joy,
while his dissection is a misery, and its very condition a death.
Compare the " Mental Traveller/' " Her fingers number
every nerve." The old woman there has the morbid morality
of Albion.
P. 22, 11. 25 to 33. Then Albion bids Jerusalem hide where
she cannot be seen or touched. That is, he will have the
inspired sympathies made part of the Unconscious, and hidden
in the flesh, whose conscious instincts dwelling in the feminine
or bodily blood Vala's robe shall live while his masculine
blood, ideal passion, is drained away. For Luvah is slain,
love is materialized and made spectral, personal. Thus Albion
hopes to escape from analyzing joy or envying love.
192 JERUSALEM I.
P. 22, 11. 34 to 46. Jerusalem, then blood, asked why blood
must needs be the origin of sin, and of punishment and war.
Personality may be valued for its capacity to forgive, separate-
ness for its delight in joining, using the well-known figure
that identifies the union of sexes by love, the union of sin and
righteousness by forgiveness, and of the union of reason and
imagination by inspiration.
By Samuel Foster Damon, Morris Eaves
page 241 contraction, eve represents the lowest point the senses can fall to in the fallen man
page 6 adam, reason as adam, sense as eve
adam conscious mind
satan subconscious, energy
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JERUSALEM I. 191
P. 22, 11. 1 to 15. But Albion's head being downwards, or
Envy, his heart, Revenge, his loins Cruelty, of deliberate legal
punishment, Jerusalem, in Yala, felt terror the moment the
veil was round him, she being the veil's life. She felt terror,
moral and physical, she felt that to personality, blood means
war and hate, that should mean love, as blood's pre-natal life
meant. She shrinks from Albion's eyes, conscious of her
bodily tendencies, while in his envious soul her bodily inspira-
tion sees the other sin of unforgivingness.
P. 22, 1. 16. Then beneath the silent moon, (the moon is
the feminine locus, now stricken with the dumbness of
Albion's revengeful heart, in which the language of love was
silenced). Albion speaks the language of experience. He has
brought personal love into the light of mental consciousness
day and like Adam in Eden after eating the fruit, causes
innocence, by fancying that it was dead, to be no more. This
is the doctrine that Adam's sin was not the nakedness of
which he was ashamed, but the following of beauty's act with
misguided opinion, the belief that the state of innocence
an eternal state was no more. The shame was then his
disease, and the beginning of his punishment.
P. 22, 11. 21 to 24. Jerusalem continues the doctrine, by
describing the error, not under figure of eating a fruit, but
under that of anatomizing an infant, whose presence is a joy,
while his dissection is a misery, and its very condition a death.
Compare the " Mental Traveller/' " Her fingers number
every nerve." The old woman there has the morbid morality
of Albion.
P. 22, 11. 25 to 33. Then Albion bids Jerusalem hide where
she cannot be seen or touched. That is, he will have the
inspired sympathies made part of the Unconscious, and hidden
in the flesh, whose conscious instincts dwelling in the feminine
or bodily blood Vala's robe shall live while his masculine
blood, ideal passion, is drained away. For Luvah is slain,
love is materialized and made spectral, personal. Thus Albion
hopes to escape from analyzing joy or envying love.
192 JERUSALEM I.
P. 22, 11. 34 to 46. Jerusalem, then blood, asked why blood
must needs be the origin of sin, and of punishment and war.
Personality may be valued for its capacity to forgive, separate-
ness for its delight in joining, using the well-known figure
that identifies the union of sexes by love, the union of sin and
righteousness by forgiveness, and of the union of reason and
imagination by inspiration.