Plate 98

Platte 98

PLATE 98

Then each an Arrow flaming from his Quiver fitted carefully
They drew fourfold the unreprovable String, bending thro the wide
    Heavens
The horned Bow Fourfold, loud sounding flew the flaming Arrow
    fourfold

Murmuring the Bow-string breathes with ardor. Clouds roll round
    the horns
Of the wide Bow, loud sounding Winds sport on the Mountains
    brows:
The Druid Spectre was Annihilate loud thundring rejoicing
    terrific vanishing

Fourfold Annihilation & at the clangor of the Arrows of Intellect
The innumerable Chariots of the Almighty appeard in Heaven
And Bacon & Newton & Locke, & Milton & Shakspear & Chaucer
A Sun of blood red wrath surrounding heaven on all sides around
Glorious incompreh[en]sible by Mortal Man & each Chariot was
    Sexual Threefold                                           t

And every Man stood Fourfold, each Four Faces had. One to the
    West
One toward the East One to the South One to the North. the Horses
    Fourfold
And the dim Chaos brightend beneath, above, around! Eyed as the
    Peacock
According to the Human Nerves of Sensation, the Four Rivers of
    the Water of Life

South stood the Nerves of the Eye. East in Rivers of bliss the
    Nerves of the
Expansive Nostrils West, flowd the Parent Sense the Tongue. North
    stood
The labyrinthine Ear. Circumscribing & Circumcising the
    excrementitious
Husk & Covering into Vacuum evaporating revealing the lineaments
    of Man
Driving outward the Body of Death in an Eternal Death &
    Resurrection
Awaking it to Life among the Flowers of Beulah rejoicing in Unity
In the Four Senses in the Outline the Circumference & Form, for
    ever
In Forgiveness of Sins which is Self Annihilation. it is the
    Covenant of Jehovah

The Four Living Creatures Chariots of Humanity Divine
    Incomprehensible
In beautiful Paradises expand These are the Four Rivers of
    Paradise
And the Four Faces of Humanity fronting the Four Cardinal Points
Of Heaven going forward forward irresistible from Eternity to
    Eternity

And they conversed together in Visionary forms dramatic which
    bright
Redounded from their Tongues in thunderous majesty, in Visions

In new Expanses, creating exemplars of Memory and of Intellect
Creating Space, Creating Time according to the wonders Divine
Of Human Imagination, throughout all the Three Regions immense
Of Childhood, Manhood & Old Age[;] & the all tremendous
    unfathomable Non Ens
Of Death was seen in regenerations terrific or complacent     
    varying                                                    t
According to the subject of discourse & every Word & Every
    Character
Was Human according to the Expansion or Contraction, the
    Translucence or
Opakeness of Nervous fibres such was the variation of Time &
    Space
Which vary according as the Organs of Perception vary & they
    walked
To & fro  reflecting each in each & clearly  seen
And seeing: according to fitness & order. And I heard Jehovah
    speak
Terrific from his Holy Place & saw the Words of the Mutual
    Covenant Divine
On Chariots of gold & jewels with Living Creatures starry &
    flaming
With every Colour, Lion, Tyger, Horse, Elephant, Eagle Dove, Fly,
    Worm,
And the all wondrous Serpent clothed in gems & rich array
    Humanize
In the Forgiveness of Sins according to the Covenant of Jehovah.
 in Eternity as One Man  They Cry

Where is the Covenant of Priam, the Moral Virtues of the Heathen
Where is the Tree of Good & Evil that rooted beneath the cruel
    heel
Of Albions Spectre the Patriarch Druid! where are all his Human
    Sacrifices                                              
For Sin in War & in the Druid Temples of the Accuser of Sin:
    beneath
The Oak Groves of Albion that coverd the whole Earth beneath his
    Spectre
Where are the Kingdoms of the World & all their glory that grew
    on Desolation
The Fruit of Albions Poverty Tree when the Triple Headed
    Gog-Magog Giant
Of Albion Taxed the Nations into Desolation & then gave the
    Spectrous Oath

Such is the Cry from all the Earth from the Living Creatures of
    the Earth
And from the great City of Golgonooza in the Shadowy Generation
And from the Thirty-two Nations of the Earth among the Living
    Creatures
(Erdman - 257 -8)


Notes:

Here is another dimension of the apocalypse:

In Forgiveness of Sins which is Self Annihilation.

The Druid Spectre was Annihilate loud thundring rejoicing
    terrific vanishing
Fourfold Annihilation & at the clangor of the Arrows of Intellect
The innumerable Chariots of the Almighty appeard in Heaven
And Bacon & Newton & Locke, & Milton & Shakspear & Chaucer


When Blake succeeded in annihilating his Spectre, he found his primary
enemies, Bacon & Newton & Locke listed with his primary friends and sources: Milton & Shakspear & Chaucer.


Then he named the four horses of the Apocalypse and described them thusly:

the Four Rivers of  the Water of Life  taken from Genesis Chapter 2:

[10] And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
¹¹ The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

[13] And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.[

14] And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates

Another description:

South stood the Nerves of the Eye.

East in Rivers of bliss the Nerves of the Expansive Nostrils

West, flowd the Parent Sense the Tongue.

North stood The labyrinthine 


in Eternity as One Man  cries re a list of the various forms of Ulro:

Where is the Covenant of Priam, the Moral Virtues of the Heathen

Where is the Tree of Good & Evil that rooted beneath the cruel
heel Of Albions Spectre the Patriarch Druid! 

where are all his Human Sacrifices                                             
For Sin in War & in the Druid Temples of the Accuser of Sin:
beneathThe Oak Groves of Albion that coverd the whole Earth beneath his
Spectre

Where are the Kingdoms of the World & all their glory that grew
on Desolation

All gone in the New Age, the Kingdom of God that is coming.