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Book of Urizen

Plate 4, Copy A

Northrop Frye and Foster Damon each included in his definitive Blake book a helpful chart showing associations of symbols with the individual Zoas. Frye used The Four Zoas as his reference point whereas Damon used Jerusalem. Below are selected associations from their charts.

Fearful Symmetry, Frye, page 277:

In Four Zoas

1. Eternal Name    Luvah              Urizen            Tharmas            Urthona

2. Time Name        Orc                  Satan                C. Cherub            Fancy

3. Sense                 Nose                Eye                  Tongue                 Ear

4. Position              Center              Zenith              Circumference      Nadir

5. Nature                Stars                 Sun                 Moon                Mountains

6. Element              Fire                   Air                   Water                    Earth

7. Place                  Soil                   City                 Garden             Underground

8. Virtue                 Love                  Faith                Hope                   Vision 

9. Vice                    Hatred              Doubt               Despair             Dullness

 

A Blake Dictionary by Damon, page 212:

In Jerusalem - Fourfold Correspondence

1. Name             Urthona                 Luvah              Urizen               Tharmas 

2. Meanings       Imagination            Emotions            Reason              Senses         

3. Places             Nadir                     Center                Zenith                Circumference

4. Desires            Friendship             Love                   Hunger                Lust  

5. Worlds             Eternity                  Beulah                Ulro                     Generation

6. Sense               Ears                      Nostrils               Eyes                    Tongue

7. Elements          Earth                      Fire                    Air                       Water

8. Symbols            Sun                        Moon                 Stars                  Earth

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Jerusalem, Plate 97, (E 256) 

 "Then Albion stretchd his hand into Infinitude.
And took his Bow. Fourfold the Vision for bright beaming Urizen
Layd his hand on the South & took a breathing Bow of carved Gold
Luvah his hand stretch'd to the East & bore a Silver Bow bright shining
Tharmas Westward a Bow of Brass pure flaming richly wrought   
Urthona Northward in thick storms a Bow of Iron terrible thundering.

And the Bow is a Male & Female & the Quiver of the Arrows of Love,
Are the Children of this Bow: a Bow of Mercy & Loving-kindness: laying
Open the hidden Heart in Wars of mutual Benevolence Wars of Love"