1. The Jonah of London - William Blake
... creation will be consumed, and appear infinite and holy whereas it now appears finite and corrupt." That promised end, as he prophesied earlier, has come, and the cherub guarding the Garden of Eden is about to leave so that Adam might return. But first, Man must be liberated and his perceptions made clean so that "everything would appear to man as ... tame to Desire, the eternal love and hate embrace of Heaven and Hell continues, for "one portion of being is the Prolific, the other, the Devouring," and being is not complete except when the two are balanced. At the end of Song of Libert...
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