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His messages of infinity "the world shall have whether they will or no"--the bold and overpowering, all-consuming way being the only way of Hell and of the infinite." Full of Hell's fires and energies, the prophet's message is irresistible. Desire is an all-consuming fire that should not and cannot be quenched. It overwhelms and burns with the force of immensities; "those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained," but true desire is too strong for bonds-indeed, "sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." "Rintrah roars and shakes his fires," while in the printing house of Hell are dragons, vipers, eagles with "wings and feathers of air", raging "lions of flaming fire", and "unnamed forms" presumably too great or overwhelming for words. How else can the beasts of Hell be but awesome and inexorable creatures of action and boldness, fearless predators that consume and hesitate not, when "the wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God" and "the roaring lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man." .
But what are raging beasts, mighty as they are, compared to supreme God? Blake rises higher still, for Man is God! "All deities reside in the human breast" and "where man is not nature is barren," since the creative force of the universe lies within Man." The greatest God, then, is the greatest man, the ones who follow most closely the " first principle" of "poetic genius," for "what is now proved was once only imagined," and imagination is the rightful domain of poets." Thus, Blake claims, there is nothing greater than these poets, who "animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses" according to "whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.