Laocoon (Blake)

If Morality was Christianity Socrates was the Saviour

יה [Jehovah]  & his two Sons Satan & Adam as they were copied from the Cherubim of Solomons Temple by three Rhodians & applied to Natural Fact, or History of Ilium Art Degraded Imagination Denied War Governed the Nations

Evil

Good & Evil are Riches & Poverty a Tree of           Misery propagating Generation & Death

The Gods of Priam are the Cherubim of Moses & Solomon: The Hosts of Heaven

Without Unceasing Practise nothing can be done Practise is Art If you leave off you are Lost

The Angel of the Divine Presence

מלאך     יהוה [Angel of Jehovah]

ΟΦΙουΧος [Serpent-holder] HEBREW ART is            called SIN by the Deist SCIENCE All that we See is Vision from Generated Organs gone as soon as come Permanent in The Imagination; Considerd as Nothing by the NATURAL MAN

What can be Created Can be Destroyed Adam is only The Natural Man & not the Soul or Imagination

Good

לילית [Lilith]

Satans Wife The Goddess Nature is War & Misery & Heroism a Miser

Spiritual War Israel deliverd from Egypt is Art deliverd from Nature & Imitation

A Poet a Painter a Musician an Architect : the Man Or Woman who is not one of these is not a Christian You must leave Fathers & Mothers & Houses & Lands if they stand in the way of Art

The Eternal Body of Man is The IMAGINATION, that is God himself The Divine Body }  ישע   [Yeshua] JESUS   we are his Members

It manifests itself in his Works of Art (In Eternity All is Vision) The True Christian Charity not dependent on Money (the lifes blood of Poor Families) that is on Caesar or Empire or Natural Religion Money, which is The Great Satan or Reason the Root of Good & Evil In The Accusation of Sin

Prayer is the Study of Art                Praise is the Practise of Art Fasting &c. all relate to Art                              The outward Ceremony is Antichrist

Where any view of Money exists Art cannot be carried on, but War only                               Read Matthew C X. 9 & 10v by pretences to the Two Impossibilities Chastity & Abstinence Gods of the Heathen

He repented that he had made Adam (of the Female, the Adamah) & it grieved him at his heart

Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed The Gods of Greece & Egypt were Mathematical Diagrams See Plato's                 Works

Divine Union Deriding And Denying Immediate Communion with God The Spoilers say Where are his Works That he did in the Wilderness Lo what are these Whence came they These are not the Works Of Egypt nor Babylon Whose Gods are the Powers Of this World. Goddess, Nature. Who first spoil & then destroy Imaginative Art For their Glory is War and Dominion Empire against Art         See Virgils Eneid. Lib. VI.v 848 For every Pleasure Money Is Useless

There are States in which. all Visionary Men are accounted Mad Men such are Greece & Rome Such is     Empire or Tax See Luke Ch 2.v l

Jesus & his Apostles & Disciples were all Artists Their Works were destroyd by the                               Seven Angels of the Seven Churches in Asia    Antichrist      Science The unproductive Man is not a Christian much less the Destroyer

The Old & New Testaments are  the Great Code of Art SCIENCE is the Tree of DEATH ART is the Tree of LIFE GOD is JESUS

The Whole Business of Man Is The Arts & All Things    Common No Secre sy in Art What we call Antique Gems       are the Gems of Aarons Breast Plate Christianity is Art              & not Money Money is its Curse Is not every Vice possible to Man described in the Bible openly All is not Sin that Satan calls so      all the Loves & Graces of Eternity

Drawn & Engraved by William Blake.