READING WITCUTT 6

Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion

Detail of Plate 92

The struggle to accomplish a unified psyche in which each portion of the whole man is expressed in in its proper relationship to the others will be realized through Reintegration. What Jung calls Individuation is accomplished when the Zoas, the Emanations, the Spectres are valued and accepted as contributing to the Eternal Man who will be alive and awake and rejoicing as all participate in 'Universal Iove & Brotherhood.'

Jerusalem, Plate 61, (E 212)
"Doth Jehovah Forgive a Debt only on condition that it shall
Be Payed? Doth he Forgive Pollution only on conditions of Purity
That Debt is not Forgiven! That Pollution is not Forgiven
Such is the Forgiveness of the Gods, the Moral Virtues of the    
Heathen, whose tender Mercies are Cruelty. But Jehovahs Salvation
Is without Money & without Price, in the Continual Forgiveness of Sins
In the Perpetual Mutual Sacrifice in Great Eternity! for behold!
There is none that liveth & Sinneth not! And this is the Covenant
Of Jehovah: If you Forgive one-another, so shall Jehovah Forgive You:    
That He Himself may Dwell among You."

Witcutt Page 93 - Reintegration

A complete human personality should contain consciously, all the functions in their proper hierarchy, thought, love, imagination, and the powers of sensing. The incomplete (though norma) personality stresses one and represses the others, often so far into the unconscious that it forgets all about them and is incapable of consciously using them. The Anima is the symbolic representation of these repressed functions.

Thus Blake, perfectly correctly from the psychological point, says to the Anima:

"Thou art the soft reflected Image of the Sleeping Man" (Jerusalem 85)

and tells us that:

"Man divided from his Emanation is a dark Spectre                 
His Emanation is an ever-weeping melancholy Shadow" (Jerusalem 53)

The Anima in Blake's case is Jerusalem, the heroine of his last and greatest epic. Jerusalem and Vala are connected figures. They both represent love, but whereas Vala is selfish natural love, Jerusalem is spiritual, unselfish love.

"Vala produc'd the Bodies, Jerusalem gave the souls." (Jerusalem 18)

"Vala would never have sought & loved Albion If she had not sought to destroy Jerusalem; such is that false And Generating Love: a pretence of love to destroy love:" (Jerusalem 17) 

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Vala is Nature "She is our Mother! Nature!" and in gazing on her 

Albion feels himself encompassed by the cycle of birth and death. ...

In repressing Vala, Albion has also repressed his capacity for love of any kind.  

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In order to achieve reintegration the two halves of the soul must be reunited; the Anima must be readmitted to consciousness...In the Seventh Night of  Four Zoas Los has lost his Emanation Enitharmon, and his Spectre has some advice to give him on this point.

"Thou never canst embrace sweet Enitharmon terrible Demon. Till
Thou art united with thy Spectre...
be assurd I am thy real Self  
Tho thus divided from thee & the Slave of Every passion
Of thy fierce Soul Unbar the Gates of Memory look upon me
Not as another but as thy real Self I am thy Spectre" (Four Zoas VII) 

Blake recognizes his Spectre as himself, and this disarms it. For he who recognizes his shadow only in another is thoroughly under its power. 

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This is the formula by which the elder Blake sought to reconcile Christianity with his earlier rejection of the Moral Law. He would not depart from his earlier position; instead he sought a reconciling formula in the doctrine of forgiveness of sins.

"Albion replyd. Cannot Man exist without Mysterious          
Offering of Self for Another, is this Friendship & Brotherhood
I see thee in the likeness & similitude of Los my Friend

Jesus said. Wouldest thou love one who never died
For thee or ever die for one who had not died for thee
And if God dieth not for Man & giveth not himself           
Eternally for Man Man could not exist. for Man is Love:
As God is Love: every kindness to another is a little Death
In the Divine Image nor can Man exist but by Brotherhood" (Jerusalem 96)
...

At this the Four Zoas return into their proper places, subordinate to Albion, the Self.

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Four Zoas, Night I, Page 21, (E 311)
"The Eternal Man wept in the holy tent Our Brother in Eternity
Even Albion whom thou lovest wept in pain his family
Slept round on hills & valleys in the regions of his love
But Urizen awoke & Luvah woke & thus conferrd"

Four Zoas, Night IV, Page 51, (E 334)
"Tharmas before Los stood & thus the Voice of Tharmas rolld

Now all comes into the power of Tharmas. Urizen is falln
And Luvah hidden in the Elemental forms of Life & Death
Urthona is My Son O Los thou art Urthona & Tharmas
Is God. The Eternal Man is seald never to be deliverd            
I roll my floods over his body my billows & waves pass over him
The Sea encompasses him & monsters of the deep are his companions
Dreamer of furious oceans cold sleeper of weeds & shells
Thy Eternal form shall never renew my uncertain prevails against thee"

Four Zoas, Night VIII,  Page 134, (E 385)
"That Man should Labour & sorrow & learn & forget & return
To the dark valley whence he came to begin his labours anew
In pain he sighs  in pain he labours in his universe
Screaming in birds over the deep & howling in the Wolf
Over the slain & moaning in the cattle & in the winds
And weeping over Orc & Urizen in clouds & flaming fires 
And in the cries of birth & in the groans of death his voice 
Is heard throughout the Universe whereever a grass grows
Or a leaf buds   The Eternal Man is seen is heard   is felt
And all his Sorrows till he reassumes his ancient bliss"

Four Zoas, Night IX, PAGE 133, (E 401)
"The Eternal Man arose he welcomd them to the Feast
The feast was spread in the bright South & the Eternal Man
Sat at the feast rejoicing & the wine of Eternity
Was servd round by the flames of Luvah all day & all the night"