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 As now I rend this accursed Family from my covering.

Thus Satan rag'd amidst the Assembly, and his bosom grew

Opake against the Divine Vision: the paved terraces of

His bosom inwards shone with fires, but the stones, becoming opake,

Hid him from sight in an extreme blackness and darkness.

And there a World of deeper Ulro was open'd in the midst

Of the Assembly, in Satan's bosom, a vast unfathomable Abyss.

Astonishment held the Assembly in an awful silence: and tears

Fell down as dews of night, & a loud solemn universal groan

Was utter'd from the east & from the west & from the south

And from the north; and Satan stood opake, immeasurable,

Covering the east with solid blackness, round his hidden heart,

With thunders utter'd from his hidden wheels: accusing loud

The Divine Mercy for protecting Palamabron in his tent.

Rintrah rear'd up walls of rocks and pour'd rivers & moats

Of fire round the walls: columns of fire guard around

Between Satan and Palamabron in the terrible darkness.

And Satan not having the Science of Wrath, but only of Pity,

Rent them asunder, and wrath was left to wrath, & pity to pity.

He sunk down a dreadful Death, unlike the slumbers of Beulah.

The Separation was terrible: the Dead was repos'd on his Couch

Beneath the Couch of Albion, on the seven mou[n]tains of Rome,

In the whole place of the Covering Cherub, Rome, Babylon & Tyre.

His Spectre raging furious descended into its Space.

P. 9 HE set his face against Jerusalem to destroy the Eon of Albion.

But Los hid Enitharmon from the sight of all these things,

Upon the Thames whose lulling harmony repos'd her soul:

Where Beulah lovely terminates in rocky Albion:

Terminating in Hyde Park on Tyburn's awful brook.

And the Mills of Satan were separated into a moony Space

Among the rocks of Albion's Temples, and Satan's Druid sons

Offer the Human Victims throughout all the Earth, and Albion's

Dread Tomb, immortal on his Rock, overshadow'd the whole Earth:

Where Satan making to himself Laws from his own identity

Compell'd others to serve him in moral gratitude & submission,

Being call'd God: setting himself above all that is called God.

And all the Spectres of the Dead, calling themselves Sons of God,

In his Synagogues worship Satan under the Unutterable Name. 6