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 To put off Self & all I have, ever & ever. Amen.

Satan heard, Coming in a cloud, with trumpets & flaming fire,

Saying: I am God the judge of all, the living & the dead.

Fall therefore down & worship me, submit thy supreme

Dictate, to my eternal Will & to my dictate bow.

I hold the Balances of Right & Just & mine the Sword:

Seven Angels bear my Name & in those Seven I appear,

But I alone am God & I alone in Heav'n & Earth

Of all that live dare utter this, others tremble & bow:

P. 40 TILL all Things become One Great Satan in Holiness

Oppos'd to Mercy, and the Divine Delusion Jesus be no more.

Suddenly around Milton on my Path, the Starry Seven

Burn'd terrible: my Path became a solid fire, as bright

As the clear Sun & Milton silent came down on my Path.

And there went forth from the Starry limbs of the Seven, Forms

Human, with Trumpets innumerable, sounding articulate

As the Seven spake: and they stood in a mighty Column of Fire

Surrounding Felpham's Vale, reaching to the Mundane Shell, Saying:

Awake, Albion awake! reclaim thy Reasoning Spectre. Subdue

Him to the Divine Mercy. Cast him down into the Lake

Of Los, that ever burneth with fire, ever & ever, Amen!

Let the Four Zoas awake from Slumbers of Six thousand years.

Then loud the Furnaces of Los were heard; & seen as Seven Heavens

Stretching from South to North over the mountains of Albion.

Satan heard; trembling round his Body, he incircled it:

He trembled with exceeding great trembling & astonishment,

Howling in his Spectre round his Body hung'ring to devour,

But fearing for the pain, for if he touches a Vital

His torment is unendurable: therefore he cannot devour:

But howls round it as a lion round his prey continually.

Loud Satan thunder'd, loud & dark upon mild Felpham's Shore,

Coming in a Cloud with Trumpets & with Fiery Flame,

An awful Form eastward from midst of a bright Paved-work

Of precious stones by Cherubim surrounded: so permitted

(Lest he should fall apart in his Eternal Death) to imitate

The Eternal Great Humanity Divine surrounded by

His Cherubim & Seraphim in ever happy Eternity.

Beneath sat Chaos: Sin on his right hand, Death on his left, 42