VISIONARY PERSPECTIVE

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Don't go to Greda Norvig's book Dark Figures in the Desired Country looking for light reading. If you are willing to be challenged by her intellect, her vocabulary and her psychological perceptions, you will be rewarded with insights that are as astounding as they are nourishing. In this passage she is using Blake's engraving techniques to present the relationship of what 'is' and 'what seems to be.' 
 
Quoting from page 59 of Norvig's book on Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrims Progress:
 
"But life as it is here and now can be known to be 'infinite and holy' as soon as distinctions between body and soul, medium and message, 'sensual enjoyment' and spiritual understanding, are recognized as expendable. Achieving such a visionary perspective is clearly not a matter of wresting a precept from an image. On the contrary, Blake's whole effort spent on encouraging trust in the immanent wisdom of observable form. For him, things are literally 'metaphors' of vision, designed to 'carry over' the imaginal archetypes they embody or express. One's attitude toward things, as toward the process of embodiment or ensouling, may need correction; but the problem is perceptual not ontological. So the 'infernal method' of etching on copper is intended to exemplify and to involve the participant in a process of sudden apprehension of surface truth, an apprehension that carries  the certitude of revelation and no need of 'corporeal' explication. Just the reverse of Bunyan's formal strategy of recession, it reflects a coming-forth procedure. Every encounter with Blake's acid-forged forms is meant as a mutual epiphany, a friendship through the eye on the plane of appearance, between the deep structures of the spectator's psyche and the content displayed. The pun on the word apparent, in the phrase 'melting apparent surfaces away,' tells the story. For Blake real surfaces were made apparent (visible) by the elimination of apparent (seeming) surfaces. But the images of truth do not hide as ideas behind a false appearance in his conception, nor do they exist in contradiction to 'apparent surfaces.' Rather, Blake makes his vision of the infinite lift out of the everyday by emphatically affirming their concrete substantiality. Through the 'infernal method,' his printed language of forms - visual and verbal combined - a spiritual body is literally raised. There is a concept of redemption here, both of the spirit and of the body, both of the form and of the inward meaning - the 'infernal state' - of the form."

Jerusalem, Plate 32 [36], (E 179)

 "Art & Science cannot exist but by Naked Beauty displayd

Then those in Great Eternity who contemplate on Death            
Said thus. What seems to Be: Is: To those to whom
It seems to Be, & is productive of the most dreadful
Consequences to those to whom it seems to Be: even of
Torments, Despair, Eternal Death; but the Divine Mercy
Steps beyond and Redeems Man in the Body of Jesus Amen           
And Length Bredth Highth again Obey the Divine Vision Hallelujah"

Marriage of Heaven & Hell, Plate 14, (E 39)
   "The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire
at the  end of six thousand years is true. as I have heard from
Hell.
   For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to 
leave his guard at the tree of life, and when he does, the whole 
creation will be consumed, and appear infinite. and holy whereas
it now  appears finite & corrupt.
   This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.
   But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his
soul, is to  be expunged; this I shall do, by printing in the
infernal method, by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and
medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the
infinite which was hid.
   If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would
appear  to man as it is: infinite.
   For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro'
narrow chinks of his cavern.
Plate 15
                            A Memorable Fancy

   I was in a Printing house in Hell & saw the method in which
knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
   In the first chamber was a Dragon-Man, clearing away the
rubbish from a caves mouth; within, a number of Dragons were
hollowing the  cave, 
   In the second chamber was a Viper folding round the rock & the 
cave, and others adorning it with gold silver and precious
stones.
   In the third chamber was an Eagle with wings and feathers of air, 
he caused the inside of the cave to be infinite, around were
numbers  of Eagle like men, who built palaces in the immense
cliffs.
   In the fourth chamber were Lions of flaming fire raging around
&  melting the metals into living fluids.
   In the fifth chamber were Unnam'd forms, which cast the metals 
into the expanse.
   There they were reciev'd by Men who occupied the sixth
chamber,  and took the forms of books & were arranged in
libraries."

Post on Printing House.

Job 16

we read these passages in Plate 15 of William Blake's Book of Job

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering (Job xxvi: 6).
Canst though by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? (Job xi: 7).
...the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night (Revelation xii: 10).
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? (Job xi: 8).
...now shall the prince of this world be cast out (John xii: 31).
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked (Jobxxxvi: 17)
...even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven (Luke x: 17-18).
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty (First Corinthians 1: 27).

This from the Liberty Fund:

Plate 16 of Blake's Book of Job
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2155

PLATE XVI.
“Thou hast fulfilled the Judgment of the Wicked.”
For this subject the Book of Job does not supply authority. It is, however, required to
complete the drama. It represents the fall of Satan, baffled in his attempt to overcome
the integrity of Job. The earth has opened between Job and his wife on one side, and
the three friends of Job on the other; from the gulf flames are darting up, and into
them “Satan as lightning falls from Heaven.” “Hell is naked before him, and
Destruction has no covering.” Two of his ministers fall with him. On either side are
two angels of light; above, in the centre, sits the Almighty, raising his hand alike for
doom and for blessing. In the circle of light around him are figures of angels, two of
them with veiled faces. The chief motto in the border is, “Thou hast fulfilled the
judgment of the wicked.” The other mottoes give a clew to Blake’s conception, which
is conformed to the common Christian doctrine, and shows no trace of his peculiar
tenets. The design and the texts are alike intended to show that the Devil is powerless
against holiness, and that the ways of God are past finding out. “Even the Devils are
subject to us through thy name.” “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the
things that are mighty.” “The Prince of this World shall be cast out.” “The Accuser of
our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night.” Canst
thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection? It is
higher than heaven, what canst thou do? it is deeper than hell, what canst thou know?”

HUMAN FORM

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Harold Bloom, who wrote Blake's Apocalypse, uses his deep acquaintance with the Old Testament to reveal something or what Blake was trying to communicate in his conclusion of Auguries of Innocence. Bloom connects the Human Form which is Blake's term for the indwelling spirit with the lesson Jonah was taught about the lost souls of Ninivah whom God would reclaim.
 
"In the passage that ends Blake's Auguries [of Innocence] the bodily eye is identified with the shadowing gourd [Book of Jonah], born in the night of our fall to perish in the night of our destruction. Blake's irony is at its subtlest as he plays at the equivocal beams of light that blind us in our wilful darkness. The eye of our corporeal existence, a narrow opening in our material cavern, was born when our soul slept in the heavenly light. If our soul had kept awake in the light, we would not have fallen, and would now have an eye to see with, and not through, if we are to see our own relation to what we were. But like Jonah we are poor souls dwelling within the mental cavern or whale's belly of the night, the dark forest in which the Bard of Experience saw his Tyger.
 
As God taught Jonah the humane view of apocalypse, so now Blake seeks to teach it to himself. God appears as a light shining into our darkness if we insist upon dwelling in the darkness. But if we see through the eye, the we are auguries of a second Innocence, and dwell in the clear realms of day, where the Tygers of Wrath are anything but fearful, and where God displays the form of the human." (Page 303)

Everlasting Gospel, (E 520)
"This Lifes dim Windows of the Soul
Distorts the Heavens from Pole to Pole
And leads you to Believe a Lie
When you see with not thro the Eye   
That was born in a night to perish in a night
When the Soul slept in the beams of Light."

Auguries of Innocence, (E 492)
"Every Night & every Morn
Some to Misery are Born 
Every Morn & every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight
Some are Born to sweet delight
Some are Born to Endless Night
We are led to Believe a Lie 
When we see not Thro the Eye  
Which was Born in a Night to perish in a Night
When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light
God Appears & God is Light
To those poor Souls who dwell in Night 
But does a Human Form Display
To those who Dwell in Realms of day"

Songs of Innocence & of Experience, (E 12)
Song 18, The Divine Image 
"For Mercy has a human heart
Pity, a human face:
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress."

Jerusalem, Plate 27, (E 173)
"He witherd up the Human Form,
By laws of sacrifice for sin:
  Till it became a Mortal Worm:    
But O! translucent all within.

  The Divine Vision still was seen
Still was the Human Form, Divine
  Weeping in weak & mortal clay
O Jesus still the Form was thine.      

  And thine the Human Face & thine
The Human Hands & Feet & Breath
  Entering thro' the Gates of Birth
And passing thro' the Gates of Death"

Jonah 4
[6] And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
[7] But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
[9] And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd ? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
[10] Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
[11] And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Job 18

Job's Sacrifice BC image

Job's Sacrifice Plate 18

Job is a new man, loved by, and for God.   In this picture he is praying for any and all .                                                                                                                   
Notice the angels circling around the border (or are they are Job's
daughters?)            

Notice the open Bible on the bottom left and the scroll on the bottom right. (We might see the Bible representing the Old Testament and the scroll the new one.)

Job's arms are spread like a pastor pronouncing the benediction.

The fire in the altar are reminiscent of the fire of God that came to
Elijah's altar in the contest with the prophets of Baal. It is a cleansing and healing fire.
(Taken from page 45 of 'Blake's Job' by Andrew Wright

FIERY JOY

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As Urizen functions as the setter of limits, the promulgator of laws to regulate behavior, Orc is symbolic of the energy which Urizen seeks to control. In one account of the Fall, Urizen and Luvah plot together and then turn against each other in distrust. Both become reduced as their eternal qualities are diminished when they enter the physical world. Luvah's name in the world of generation is Orc. His is the energy striving to be released without thought of restraint. Blake's Orc is a character who will be admired or feared, sought or despised, welcomed or rejected.  His fiery unpredictability makes him the perfect foil for Urizen's cold rationality.



America, Plate 7, (E 54) 
"Lover of wild rebellion, and transgresser of Gods Law; 
Why dost thou come to Angels eyes in this 
terrific form? 
Plate, 8 The terror answerd: I am Orc, wreath'd round the accursed tree:

The times are ended; shadows pass the morning gins to break;
The fiery joy, that Urizen perverted to ten commands,
What night he led the starry hosts thro' the wide wilderness:
That stony law I stamp to dust: and scatter religion abroad      
To the four winds as a torn book, & none shall gather the leaves;
But they shall rot on desart sands, & consume in bottomless deeps;
To make the desarts blossom, & the deeps shrink to their fountains,
And to renew the fiery joy, and burst the stony roof.
That pale religious letchery, seeking Virginity,                 
May find it in a harlot, and in coarse-clad honesty
The undefil'd tho' ravish'd in her cradle night and morn:
For every thing that lives is holy, life delights in life;
Because the soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd.
Fires inwrap the earthly globe, yet man is not consumd;      
Amidst the lustful fires he walks: his feet become like brass,
His knees and thighs like silver, & his breast and head like gold."

John Middleton Murry, on Page 92 of William Blake, reveals the essential function of Orc:
"In the final lines of America we are brought back to the event of which the whole prophecy is symbolic: the consuming of the whole Creation by the cleansing of the doors of perception, so that instead of finite and corrupt, it appears infinite and holy. For the five gates  of the law-built heaven, which the Guardians seek to bar, are the five senses. These gates are consumed, as the doors of perception are cleansed: the consuming and the cleansing are the same act. This is accomplished, in Blake's revolutionary legend, by the flames of Orc- by those 'corroding fires' with which the mighty Devil wrote on the sides of the abyss of the five senses the words of liberation:    

"How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
   Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?""
Marriage of Heaven & Hell, Plate 5

Symbolism

       Blake was a highly symbolic poet (and painter); to understand much of his thought requires acquaintance with a body of symbols that go back to the dawn of civilization, and up to the 19th century. In an age when only the material seemed to matter Blake was (and continues to be) highly opaque to the pure materialist. Such a person will find most of Blake's ideas meaningless.

       But at the deepest level his ideas are the veritable stuff of life: love and hate, good and evil, life and death, and many ideas with urgent meaning. A high proportion of people prefer to turn aside from these questions, but you can be sure that their unconscious is full of them.

       Above all Blake is about matter and spirit, at the great dividing line: do you see yourself primarily as a body or as spirit?

       Begin with the conclusion, to be supported by an overwhelming body of evidence stretching from Heraclitus in the 6th century BC to the present:

       Our mortal life is a vale of tears to which we have lapsed from Eternity and from which we will (may?) eventually escape back into the Higher Realm. This myth conforms very closely to the Gnostics, the Platonists, and of course most of Eastern Religion. In the Christian tradition one can find vestiges of it in many of the mystics, notably Meister Eckhart, in Mexican folk culture and in fact universally.

       The western mind revolts from this "never-never land" at least on the conscious level, but Freud, Jung, and many other psychologists find strong evidence for it in the unconscious. At this point many readers may dismiss Blake's myth as not worth their attention.

       The select few who remain may rightfully expect an entirely new world of grace and enchantment to open before their minds. The biblically oriented may perceive that all Blake's poetic and artistic work fits into a scheme of cosmic/psychic meaning; closely following the Bible it describes the pattern of Paradise, the Fall, a gradual redemption, and the final Rapture.  

       Understanding Blake's myth can be expedited by the study of Blake's women.

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       A most significant key to Blake's symbolism came to light only in 1947 when Arlington Court was bequeathed to the British National Trust. Among the furnishings there was a large tempera by Blake, called alternatively The Sea of Time and Space or The Cave of the Nymphs. This treasure had been hidden from public eyes for a century.

       (Most of us are unlikely to see the original, but Blake and Antiquity by Kathleen Raine offers several glimpses of the picture with a detailed account of the symbols it contains. There is no better way to begin an understanding of Blake at the deeper level than to read carefully and study this small and accessible book.)

       The picture contains the essential symbolism of Blake's myth; the theme goes back to Homer, then to Plato and Porphyry. (To understand Blake's myth one would be well advised to study this link with care--at least the first part of Taylor's article.)

       Blake and Taylor were approximately the same age and as young men close friends. Many people think that Taylor introduced Blake to the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions. It seems certain that Taylor's On the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs deeply influenced the painting of the Arlington Tempera. It also introduced a great number of the most common symbols used in Blake's myth; they were used over and over throughout Blake's work.

       Another good introduction to Blake's myth is The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It comes from an angry young man pouring his scorn on the conventions that cripple us; the language is pungent, the words are pointed, provocative, and outrageous.

       A conventional person will find this whole work offensive and repulsive, but the young person at the stage of life where he's ready to kick over the traces, is quickly attracted-- if he has enough wit to understand irony and not take everything at face value.

       We might call it an ironic satire. In 1789 Blake was 32, at the height of his physical (though perhaps not mental) powers. He had experienced the Divine Vision.

       He knew it was meant for mankind, but so far limited to Jesus and a few others. But with the advent of the French Revolution he foresaw its spread throughout the world. (Of course in that he was soon doomed to disappointment-- with the appearance of Madame Guillotine.) Nevertheless with a peak of spiritual exuberance he proceeded to announce the coming New Age:

The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell. For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at the tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.... If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. (Plate 14)

       For this gem Blake drew upon Genesis and Plato.

THE GARDEN

The Blakes had a garden at their home in Lambeth. They are said to have sat in their garden under an arbor reading Paradise Lost. The grape vine in their garden is said to have been left untrimmed to give it complete liberty to grow as it would. We know something of the Blake's garden at Felpham also, since he ejected an unwelcome Dragoon from his garden.  This act led to unfortunate consequences since Blake was accused by the Dragoon of damning the King, indicted and tried for sedition. Blake had risked losing his own garden by removing the soldier. Blake, though acquitted, returned to London in reduced circumstances, and never again had a significant garden.
 
In Genesis the garden is the image of the ideal state of existence in which man and woman walked and conversed with God. The garden was lost to Adam and Eve when they fractured their connection with God through disobedience.
 
Genesis 2
[15] And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 3
[24] So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

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Milton

Plate 47

In Milton, Blake has much of the action take place in his garden at Felpham. Ololon, the Emanation of Milton, descends to Blake's garden in Felpham seeking Milton. It is on the path in Blake's garden that Milton encounters the Starry Seven. Blake himself is struck in terror as he is given a vision of the Immortal Four. Blake returns to his mortal state in his garden beside his cottage with his wife anxiously looking after him.
 
Blake's two characters, Milton and Blake, have both experienced Judgement in the garden having been convinced of the Error in whose grip they had been enthralled.
 
Perhaps you have been reminded of the experience of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.

 Milton, Plate 36 [40], (E 136) 

 "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.
For Ololon step'd into the Polypus within the Mundane Shell
They could not step into Vegetable Worlds without becoming
The enemies of Humanity except in a Female Form          
And as One Female, Ololon and all its mighty Hosts
Appear'd: a Virgin of twelve years nor time nor space was
To the perception of the Virgin Ololon but as the
Flash of lightning but more  quick the Virgin in my Garden
Before my Cottage stood for the Satanic Space is delusion        

For when Los joind with me he took me in his firy whirlwind
My Vegetated portion was hurried from Lambeths shades
He set me down in Felphams Vale & prepard a beautiful
Cottage for me that in three years I might write all these Visions
To display Natures cruel holiness: the deceits of Natural Religion[.]   
Walking in my Cottage Garden, sudden I beheld
The Virgin Ololon & address'd her as a Daughter of Beulah[:]

Virgin of Providence fear not to enter into my Cottage
What is thy message to thy friend: What am I now to do
Is it again to plunge into deeper affliction? behold me          
Ready to obey, but pity thou my Shadow of Delight
Enter my Cottage, comfort her, for she is sick with fatigue"
Plate 37 [41]
The Virgin answerd. Knowest thou of Milton who descended
Driven from Eternity; him I seek! terrified at my Act
In Great Eternity which thou  knowest!  I come him to seek"

Milton, Plate 39 [44], (E 140)
"Suddenly around Milton on my Path, the Starry Seven
Burnd terrible! my Path became a solid fire, as bright
As the clear Sun & Milton silent came down on my Path.           
And there went forth from the Starry limbs of the Seven: Forms
Human; with Trumpets innumerable, sounding articulate
As the Seven spake; and they stood in a mighty Column of Fire
Surrounding Felphams Vale, reaching to the Mundane Shell, Saying

Awake Albion awake! reclaim thy Reasoning Spectre. Subdue        

Him to the Divine Mercy, Cast him down into the Lake
Of Los, that ever burneth with fire, ever & ever Amen!
Let the Four Zoa's awake from Slumbers of Six Thousand Years

Then loud the Furnaces of Los were heard! & seen as Seven heavens
Stretching from south to north over the mountains of Albion"

Milton, Plate 42 [49], (E 143)
"And I beheld the Twenty-four Cities of Albion
Arise upon their Thrones to Judge the Nations of the Earth
And the Immortal Four in whom the Twenty-four appear Four-fold
Arose around Albions body: Jesus wept & walked forth
>From Felphams Vale clothed in Clouds of blood, to enter into     
Albions Bosom, the bosom of death & the Four surrounded him
In the Column of Fire in Felphams Vale; then to their mouths the Four
Applied their Four Trumpets & them sounded to the Four winds

Terror struck in the Vale I stood at that immortal sound
My bones trembled. I fell outstretchd upon the path              
A moment, & my Soul returnd into its mortal state
To Resurrection & Judgment in the Vegetable Body
And my sweet Shadow of Delight stood trembling by my side

Immediately the Lark mounted with a loud trill from Felphams Vale
And the Wild Thyme from Wimbletons green & impurpled Hills   

And Los & Enitharmon rose over the Hills of Surrey"

Job X

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Illustrations of the Book of Job
Invented and and Engraved
by William Blake

Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name

Thus did Job continually

There was a Man in the

Land of Uz whose Name

was Job & that Man

was perfect & upright

The Letter Killeth

The Spirit giveth Life

It is Spiritually Discerned

& one that feared God

& one that eschewed Evil & there

was born unto him Seven

Sons & Three Daughters

Job and his family

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name (Matthew 6: 9; Luke 11: 2:

Thus did Job continually (Job i:5)

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters (Job 1: 1-2)

. . . the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life (II Corinthians 3: 6:

. . . they are spiritually discerned (I Corinthians 2: 14:

I beheld the

Ancient of Days

Hast thou considered my servant Job

The Angel of the Divine Presence

I shall see God

Thou art our Father

We shall awake up with thy Likeness

When the Almighty was yet with me, When my Children were about me

There was a day when the Sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord & Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord.

Satan before the throne of God

I beheld . . . the Ancient of days (Daniel 7:9)

Hast thou considered my servant Job (Job 1: 8)

Note: This phrase does not appear in the Bible. It signifies Satan, who presents himself before the Lord (Job 1: 6). The Hebrew letters beneath his name, however, identify him as "King Jehovah," Job's false God.

. . . shall I see God (Job 19: 26)

. . . thou art our father (Isaiah 64: 8)

. . . when I awake, with thy likeness (Psalm 17:19)

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me (Job 29:5)

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them (Job 1:6)

The Fire of God is

fallen from Heaven.

And the Lord said unto Satan Behold All that he hath is in thy Power

Thy Sons & thy Daughters were eating & drinking Wine in their eldest Brothers house & behold there came a great wind from the Wilderness & smote upon the four faces of the house & it fell upon the young Men & they are Dead

Job's sons and daughters destroyed

The fire of God is

fallen from Heaven (Job 1:12)

And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power (Job 1:12)

Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead (Job 1:18-19)

And there came a Messenger unto Job & said The Oxen were plowing & the Sabeans came down & they have slain the Young Men with the Sword

Going to & fro in the Earth

& walking up & down in it

And I only am escaped alone to tell thee

While he was yet speaking there came also another & said

The fire of God is fallen from heaven & hath burned up the flocks & the

Young Men & consumed then; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee

The messengers tell Job of his misfortunes

And there came a Messenger unto Job, and said, The Oxen were plowing . . . And the Sabeans fell upon them . . . yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword (Job 1:14-15)

From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it (Job 1:7)

. . . and I only am escaped alone to tell thee (Job 1:15)

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee (Job 1:16)

Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my Soul afflicted for the Poor

Behold he is in thy hand: but save his Life

Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord

And it grieved him at his heart

Who maketh his Angels Spirits & his Ministers a Flaming Fire

Satan going forth from the presence of the Lord

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? (Job 30:25)

Behold he is in thine hand; but save his life (Job 2:6)

So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord (Job 1:12)

. . . and it grieved him at his heart (Genesis 6:6)

Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire (Psalm 104:4)

Naked came I out of my

mothers womb & Naked shall I return thither

The Lord gave & the Lord hath taken away, Blessed be the Name of the Lord.

. . . and smote Job with sore Boils

from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head

Satan smiting Job with boils

Naked came I out of my

mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, Blessed be the Name of the Lord (Job 1:21)

. . . and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown (Job 2:7)

What! shall we recieve Good at the hand of God & shall we not also recieve Evil

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off & knew him not

they lifted up their voice & wept, & they rent every Man his

mantle & sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven

Ye have heard of the Patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord.

Job's comforters

What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? (Job 2:10)

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven (Job 2:12)

Ye have heard of the Patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord.

Lo let that night be solitary

and let no joyful voice come therein

Let the Day perish wherein I was Born

And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days & seven

nights & none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief

was very great

Job's despair

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein (Job 3:7)

Let the day perish wherein I was born (Job 3:3)

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great (Job 2:13)

Shall mortal Man be more Just than God? Shall a Man be more Pure than his Maker? Behold he putteth no trust in his Saints & his Angels he chargeth with folly

Then a Spirit passed before my face

the hair of my flesh stood up

The vision of Eliphaz

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? Behold he putt no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly (Job 4:17-18)

Then a Spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up (Job 4:15)

But he knoweth the way that I take

when he hath tried me I shall come forth like gold

Have pity upon me! Have pity upon me! O ye my friends for the hand of God hath touched me

Though he slay yet will I trust in him

The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn

Man that is born of a Woman is of few days & full of trouble

he cometh up like a flower & is cut down, he fleeth also as a shadow

& continueth not. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one

& bringest me into judgment with thee

Job rebuked by his friends

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold (Job 23:10)

Have pity upon me! Have pity upon me! O ye my friends for the hand of God hath touched me (Job 19:21)

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him (Job 12:4)

. . . the just upright man is laughed to scorn (Job 12:4)

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? (Job 14:1-3)

My bones are pierced me in the

night season & my sinews

take no rest

My skin is black upon me, and

& my bones are burned

with heat

The triumphing of the wicked

is short, the joy of the hypocrite is

but for a moment

Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light & his Ministers into Ministers of Righteousness

With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me & affrightest me with Visions

Why do you persecute me as God & are not satisfied with my flesh. Oh that my words were printed in a Book that they were graven with an iron pen & lead in the rock for ever For I know that my Redeemer liveth & that he shall stand in the latter days upon the Earth & after my skin destroy thou This body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for Myself and mine Eyes shall behold & not Another tho consumed be my wrought Image

Who opposeth & exalteth himself above all that is called God or is Worshipped

Job's dreams

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest (Job 30:17)

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat (Job 30:30)

. . . the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment (Job 20:5)

. . . for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light . . . his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness (II Corinthians 11:14-15)

Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions (Job 7:14)

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me (Job 19:22-27)

Who opposeth & exalteth himself above all that is called God, or is worshipped (II Thessalonians 2:4)

For God speaketh once yea twice

& Man percieveth it not

In a Dream in a Vision of the Night

in deep Slumberings upon the bed

Then he openeth the ears of Men & sealeth their instruction

That he may withdraw Man from his purpose

& hide Pride from Man

For his eyes are upon

the says of Man & he observeth

all his goings

I am young & ye are very Old wherefore I was afraid

Lo all these things worketh God oftentimes with Man to bring

back his Soul from the pit to be enlightened

with the light of the living

Look unto the heavens & behold the clouds

which are higher than thou

If thou sinnest, what

doest thou against him? . . . If thou be

righteous, what givest thou him?

The wrath of Elihu

For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not (Job 33:14)

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed (Job 33:15)

Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction (Job 33:16)

That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. (Job 33:17)

For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings (Job 34:21)

I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid (Job 32:6)

Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living (Job 33: 29-30)

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou (Job 34: 5)

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? . . . If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? (Job 35:6-7)

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge

Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirlwind

Who maketh the Clouds his Chariot & walketh on the Wings of the Wind

Hath the Rain a Father & who hath begotten the Drops of the Dew

The Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? (Job 38:2)

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind (Job 38:1)

. . . who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh on the wings of the wind (Psalm 104:3)

Hath the rain a Father? or who hath begotten the drops of the dew? (Job 38:28)

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion

When the morning stars sang together & all the

sons of God shouted for joy

Let there Be

Light

Let there be A

Firmament

Let the waters be gathered

together into one place, and

& let the Dry Land

appear

And God made Two Great Lights

Sun

Moon

Let the Waters bring

forth abundantly

Let the earth bring forth

Cattle & Creeping thing

& Beast

When the morning stars sang together

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? (Job 38:31)

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy (Job 38:7)

Let there be light (Genesis 1:3)

Let there be a firmament (Genesis 1:6)

Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear (Genesis 1:9)

And God made two great lights (Genesis 1:16)

Let the waters bring forth abundantly (Genesis 1:20)

Let the earth bring forth the living creatures . . . cattle, and creeping thing, the beasts of the earth (Genesis 1:24)

Can any understand the spreadings of the Clouds the noise of his Tabernacle

Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud

He scattereth the bright cloud also it is turned about by his counsels

Of Behemoth he saith, He is the chief of the ways of God

Of Leviathan he saith, He is King over all the Children of Pride

Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee

Behemoth and Leviathan

Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? (Job 36:29)

Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: And it is turned round about by his counsels (Job 37:11-12)

Behold now behemoth . . . He is the chief of the ways of God (Job 40:15, 19)

. . . he is a king over all the children of pride (Job 41: 34)

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee (Job 40:15)

Hell is naked before him & destruction has no covering

Canst thou by searching find out God

Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection

The Accuser of our Brethren is Cast down

which accused them before our God day & night

It is higher than Heaven what canst thou do

It is deeper than Hell what canst thou know

The prince of this World shall be cast out

Thou hast fulfilled the Judgment of the Wicked

Even the devils are Subject to Us thro thy Name. Jesus said unto them, I saw Satan as lightning fall from Heaven

God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise

And God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty

The fall of Satan

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering (Job 26:6)

Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? (Job 11:7)

. . . the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night (Revelation 12:10)

It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell, what canst thou know? (Job 11:8).

..now shall the prince of this world be cast out (John 12:31)

But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked (Job 36:17)

. . . even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven (Luke 10:17-18)

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty (I Corinthians 1:17)

He bringeth down to

the Grave & bringeth up

we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him for we shall see him as He Is.

When I behold the Heavens the work of thy hands the Moon & Stars which thou hast ordained, then I say, What is Man that thou art mindful of him?

& the Son of Man that thou visitest him

I have heard thee with the hearing of the Ear but now my Eye seeth thee

He that seen me

hath seen my Father also

I & my Father are One

If ye had know me,

ye should have known my

Father also and

from henceforth

ye know him &

have seen him

Believe me that

I am in the Father

& the Father in me

He that loveth me

shall be loved of

my Father

For he dwelleth in

you & shall be with

you

At that day ye shall know that I am in

my Father & you in me & I in you

If ye loved me ye would rejoice

because I said I go unto the Father

He that loveth

me shall be loved

of my Father & I

will love him &

manifest myself

unto him

And the Father

will love him & we

will come unto him, and

& make our abode with him

And the Father . . .

shall give you

Another Comforter, t

that he may abide

with you for ever

Even the Spirit of truth whom the World Cannot recieve

The vision of Christ

. . . he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up (I Samuel 2:6)

. . . we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (I John 3:2)

When I consider thy heaven, the work of the finger, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Psalm 8:3-4)

I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee (Job 42:5)

. . . he that hath seen me hath seen the Father (John 14:9)

I and my Father are one (John 10:30)

If ye had know me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him (John 14:21)

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me (John 14:11)

. . . he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father (John 14:21)

. . . for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you (John 14:17)

At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you (John 14:20)

If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father (John 14:28)

. . . he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him (John 14:21)

. . . and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him (John 14: 23)

And . . . the Father . . . shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever (John 14:16)

Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive (John 14:17)

Also the Lord accepted Job

Any my Servant Job shall pray for you

And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his Friends

I say unto you

Love your En-

emies bless then

that curse you

do good to them

that hate you

& pray for them

that despitefull

use you

& persecute you

That you may be

the children of

your Father which

is in heaven, for

he maketh his sun

to shine on the Evil

& on the Good &

sendeth rain on

the Just & the Unjust

Be ye therefore perfect as your Father which is in heaven is perfect

Job's sacrifice

. . . the Lord also accepted Job (Job 42:9)

. . . and my servant Job shall pray for you (Job 42:8)

And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends (Job 42: 10)

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them at curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you (Matthew 5:45)

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust (Matthew 5: 45)

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5: 48)

The Lord maketh Poor & maketh Rich

He bringeth Low & Lifteth Up

who provideth for the

Raven his Food

When his young ones cry unto God

Every one also gave him a piece of Money

Who remembered us in our low estate

For his Mercy endureth for ever

Every man also gave him a piece of money

The lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up (I Samuel 2:7)

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God (Job 38:41)

. . . every man also gave him a piece of money (Job 42: 11)

Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever (Psalm 136: 23)

How precious are thy thoughts

unto me O God

how great is the sum of them

There were not found Women fair as the Daughters of Job

in all the Land & their Father gave them Inheritance among their Brethren

If I ascend up into Heaven thou art there

If I make my bed in Hell behold Thou

art there

Job and his daughters

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! (Psalm 139:17)

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren (Job 42:15)

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make bed in hell, behold, thou art there (Psalm 139:8)

Great & Marvellous are thy Works

Lord God Almighty

Just & True are thy Ways

O thou King of Saints

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job

more that the beginning

After this Job lived

an hundred & forty years

& saw his Sons & his

Sons Sons even four generations

So Job died

being old

& full of days

In burnt Offerings for Sin

thou hast had no Pleasure

Job and his family restored

Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints (Revelation 15: 3)

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning (Job 42: 12)

After this lived Job and hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days (Job 42: 16-17)

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou has had no pleasure (Hebrews 10: 6)

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