William Blake

THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL
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The Argument.

 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.