THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL (Illustrated Edition). Уильям Блейк

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       William Blake

      THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

      (Illustrated Edition)

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      ISBN 978-80-272-1846-2

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       THE ARGUMENT

       THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL

       A MEMORABLE FANCY

       PROVERBS OF HELL

       A MEMORABLE FANCY

       A SONG OF LIBERTY

      There are nine known copies of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the third of Blake's illuminated books. It was probably begun in 1789 and completed in 1790.

      THE ARGUMENT

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      Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air;

       Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

      Once meek, and in a perilous path,

       The just man kept his course along

       The vale of death.

       Roses are planted where thorns grow,

       And on the barren heath

       Sing the honey bees.

      Then the perilous path was planted:

       And a river and a spring

       On every cliff and tomb:

       And on the bleached bones

       Red clay brought forth.

      Till the villain left the paths of ease,

       To walk in perilous paths, and drive

       The just man into barren climes.

      Now the sneaking serpent walks

       In mild humility,

       And the just man rages in the wilds

       Where lions roam.

      Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air;

       Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

      As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent: the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded up. Now is the dominion of Edom, & the return of Adam into Paradise: see Isaiah XXXIV & XXXV Chap:

      Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.

      From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy.

      Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell

      THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL

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      All Bibles or sacred codes, have been the causes of the following Errors.

       1. That Man has two real existing principles Viz: a Body & a Soul.

       2. That Energy, call'd Evil, is alone from the Body, & that Reason, call'd Good, is alone from the Soul.

       3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his