Blake again establishes the bond between prophets and the fires of Hell by telling of an angel who, having been converted by a devil, embraces the fire and, consumed by it, arises as the prophet Elijah. Thus allegiance to Hell, Bake claims, makes one a prophet. .
Not satisfied with being only a prophet, Blake declares himself the prophet, the one destined to bring about the fulfillment of the final triumph of all prophets' desire, "the desire of raising other men into a perception of the infinite." "At the end of six thousand years.the whole 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 it is, infinite," and this all important task has fallen on one William Blake, prophet, author, & printer. .
"One thought fills immensity," so goes one of Hell's proverbs, and Blake, being a man of many thoughts, is absolutely filled with infinites. As the printer of Hell, the raging fires and limitless expanses of its Printing House would be Blake's rightful domain. "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," Blake would transfer those immensities, those thoughts, within him and send them out to cleanse the world. Like the "mighty Devil" that he saw emblazoning a message of immensity upon the press-plate of the world, the "flat sided steep" that "frowns over the present world," the abyss of the five senses, Blake the poet prophet shall burn with corroding acids into the copper-plate cliff of the abyss infinities to be "perceived by the minds of men & read by them on earth.