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 1462 Urizen (as from this contrasted region) gave laws to the Nations, teaching truth to become imperative in its separated portions, the error of errors, the assuming of will, by what is not the whole.

Just as the writings of the ancients were "stolen and perverted," so Urizen stole the sons of Los and perverted them from inspirers into restrictors.

Adam began to propagate dust, he shuddered with the throes of procreation.

And Noah, the imaginative that never quite dies, faded. Africa, once place of light, became place of dai-kness. (This was when thought changed the infinite into a serpent, as told in " Europe.