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Rh 6. Oh ! Bow, — oh ! sexes, — of the cloud of secrecy, — the selfish jealousy of the natural blood — oh! nerve of that monster, — oh ! joy of the mortal sexuality, — send this mixture of Reason and law, this materialism — this rock — swift and invisible to the heart of my unmastered enthusiasm, Fuzon.

7. So saying — still suffering from the wounds of his struggle with the serpent — he laid the rock without on the bow-string.

8. At the same time Fuzon unloosed his moods of fury, his tigers, and believed that they had slain Urizen, and that he was God, now, eldest of things. (This is all another vision of the contest of Luvah and Ui'izen from the book of " Vala." Blake eventually dropped this as less connected with the main visions of the myth.)

9. Sudden sings the rock — (a song of death, a jealousy) — and flew into Fuzon' s bosom, "darkening present joy" ("Vala," Night III., l. 11), and deforming him with the spectrous deformity or insanity of egotism, other than that of impulse — the egotism of prohibition. He fell on the edge of the forests, — of the melancholy heart.

10. For the rock, falling to the loins, — the earth, — revealed itself on Sinai as the Table of the Law.

1. The globe shook. Among symbolic motions, that of shaking, like shuddering, always precedes birth. Urizen anointed his wound. The ointment flowed down on the void. The void is the womb of Nature. The snake's poison, made of this ointment, is mortal love.

2. The tree of Mystery is brought forth. (It was afterwards Vala — or rather Vala was made into Mystery by the Serpent. Vala was mother of the babe Urizen, and thus was daughter of the old Urizen. She has two aspects, the attractive beauty of love, and the attractive beauty of morality. Hence she is both mother and daughter of the "Primal Priest.")