Read
in Job 1:
7 And
the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan
answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it.
8 And
the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant
Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an
upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
10 Hast
not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all
that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands,
and his substance is increased in the land.
12 And
the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in
thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went
forth from the presence of the Lord.
Job 4 (Adelaide ebook) |
Bible
Text
Job
1:14:
And
there came a messenger unto
Job, and said, The oxen were plowing,
(
King James Bible "Authorized Version", Cambridge
Edition)and the asses feeding beside them: Job 1:15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. |
The messenger comes
running with his clothes in disarray almost running over two sheeps.
Under
his legs in the distance is a cathedral. Presumably
another messenger is running some distance behind the first one.
another messenger is running some distance behind the first one.
Job
appears to be praying with his wife holding her hands up. 'Messenger' appears
3 times in 'The Four Zoas', twice in Blake's letters, four times in
'Milton', once in the 'Descriptive Catalog', and once in
Jerusalem:
"Then those in Great Eternity met in the Council of God
As
one Man for contracting their Exalted Senses
They
behold Multitude or Expanding they behold as one
As
One Man all the Universal family & that one Man
They
call Jesus the Christ & they in him & he in them
Live
in Perfect harmony in Eden the land of life
Consulting
as One Man above the Mountain of Snowdon Sublime
For messengers from
Beulah come in tears & darkning clouds
Saying
Shiloh is in ruins our brother is sick Albion He
Whom
thou lovest is sick he wanders from his house of Eternity
The
daughters of Beulah terrified have closd the Gate of the Tongue
Luvah
& Urizen contend in war around the holy tent"
(Erdman
311)
"Jerusalem
his Emanation is become a ruin
Her
little ones are slain on the top of every street
And
she herself le[d] captive & scatterd into the indefinite
Gird
on thy sword O thou most mighty in glory & majesty
Destroy
these opressors of Jerusalem & those who ruin Shiloh
So
spoke the Messengers of Beulah. Silently removing
The
Family Divine drew up the Universal tent
Above
High Snowdon & closd the Messengers in clouds around
Till
the time of the End."
(E
309)
In
Milton ending Plate 35:
"Just
in this Moment when the morning odours rise abroad
And
first from the Wild Thyme, stands a Fountain in a rock
Of crystal flowing into two Streams, one flows thro Golgonooza
And thro Beulah to Eden beneath Los's western Wall
The other flows thro the Aerial Void & all the Churches
Meeting again in Golgonooza beyond Satans Seat
Of crystal flowing into two Streams, one flows thro Golgonooza
And thro Beulah to Eden beneath Los's western Wall
The other flows thro the Aerial Void & all the Churches
Meeting again in Golgonooza beyond Satans Seat
The
Wild Thyme is Los's Messenger to Eden, a mighty
Demon
Terrible deadly & poisonous his presence in Ulro dark
Therefore he appears only a small Root creeping in grass
Covering over the Rock of Odours his bright purple mantle
Beside the Fount above the Larks nest in Golgonooza
Luvah slept here in death & here is Luvahs empty Tomb
Ololon sat beside this Fountain on the Rock of Odours.
Terrible deadly & poisonous his presence in Ulro dark
Therefore he appears only a small Root creeping in grass
Covering over the Rock of Odours his bright purple mantle
Beside the Fount above the Larks nest in Golgonooza
Luvah slept here in death & here is Luvahs empty Tomb
Ololon sat beside this Fountain on the Rock of Odours.
Just
at the place to where the Lark mounts, is a Crystal Gate
It is the enterance of the First Heaven named Luther: for
The Lark is Los's Messenger thro the Twenty-seven Churches
That the Seven Eyes of God who walk even to Satans Seat
Thro all the Twenty-seven Heavens may not slumber nor sleep
But the Larks Nest is at the Gate of Los, at the eastern
Gate of wide Golgonooza & the Lark is Los's Messenger
It is the enterance of the First Heaven named Luther: for
The Lark is Los's Messenger thro the Twenty-seven Churches
That the Seven Eyes of God who walk even to Satans Seat
Thro all the Twenty-seven Heavens may not slumber nor sleep
But the Larks Nest is at the Gate of Los, at the eastern
Gate of wide Golgonooza & the Lark is Los's Messenger
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PLATE
36
When
on the highest lift of his light pinions he arrives
At that bright Gate, another Lark meets him & back to back
They touch their pinions tip tip: and each descend
To their respective Earths & there all night consult with Angels
Of Providence & with the Eyes of God all night in slumbers
Inspired: & at the dawn of day send out another Lark
Into another Heaven to carry news upon his wings
Thus are the Messengers dispatchd till they reach the Earth again
In the East Gate of Golgonooza, & the Twenty-eighth bright
Lark. met the Female Ololon descending into my Garden
Thus it appears to Mortal eyes & those of the Ulro Heavens
But not thus to Immortals, the Lark is a mighty Angel."
At that bright Gate, another Lark meets him & back to back
They touch their pinions tip tip: and each descend
To their respective Earths & there all night consult with Angels
Of Providence & with the Eyes of God all night in slumbers
Inspired: & at the dawn of day send out another Lark
Into another Heaven to carry news upon his wings
Thus are the Messengers dispatchd till they reach the Earth again
In the East Gate of Golgonooza, & the Twenty-eighth bright
Lark. met the Female Ololon descending into my Garden
Thus it appears to Mortal eyes & those of the Ulro Heavens
But not thus to Immortals, the Lark is a mighty Angel."
(E
135)
In
a letter to Butts Blake wrote:
"I
am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.”
(E
724)
And
many others!
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