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 He smote Thulloh & slew him, & he stood terrible over Michael

Urging him to arise: he wept. Enitharmon saw his tears.

But Los hid Thulloh from her sight, lest she should die of grief.

She wept: she trembled: she kissed Satan: she wept over Michael:

She form'd a Space for Satan & Michael & for the poor infected.

Trembling she wept over the Space, & clos'd it with a tender Moon.

Los secret buried Thulloh, weeping disconsolate over the moony Space.

But Palamabron called down a Great Solemn Assembly,

That he who will not defend Truth, may be compelled to

Defend a Lie, that he may be snared & caught & taken.

P. 7 AND all Eden descended into Palamabron's tent,

Among Albion's Druids & Bards in the caves beneath Albion's

Death Couch, in the caverns of death, in the corner of the Atlantic.

And in the midst of the Great Assembly Palamabron pray'd:

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me:

Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from my bitterest enemies.

Mark well my words! they are of your eternal salvation!

Then rose the Two Witnesses, Rintrah & Palamabron:

And Palamabron appeal'd to all Eden, and receiv'd

Judgment: and Lo! it fell on Rintrah and his rage,

Which now flam'd high & furious in Satan against Palamabron,

Till it became a proverb in Eden. Satan is among the Reprobate.

Los in his wrath curs'd heaven & earth, he rent up Nations,

Standing on Albion's rocks among high-rear'd Druid temples

Which reach the stars of heaven & stretch from pole to pole.

He displac'd continents, the oceans fled before his face:

He alter'd the poles of the world, east, west & north & south,

But he clos'd up Enitharmon from the sight of all these things.

For Satan flaming with Rintrah's fury hidden beneath his own mildness

Accus'd Palamabron before the Assembly of ingratitude, of malice:

He created Seven deadly Sins, drawing out his infernal scroll

Of Moral laws and cruel punishments upon the clouds of Jehovah,

To pervert the Divine voice in its entrance to the earth

With thunder of war & trumpet's sound, with armies of disease,

Punishments & deaths muster'd & number'd, Saying: I am God alone:

There is no other: let all obey my principles of moral individuality.

I have brought them from the uppermost, innermost recesses

Of my Eternal Mind: transgressors I will rend off for ever,