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[The Laoco–n]t
Drawn & Engraved by William Blake
[Jehovah] & his two Sons Satan & Adam as they
were copied from the
Cherubim Of Solomons Temple by three Rhodians & applied to
Natural Fact. or. History of Ilium
[Above the father's head:]
The Angel of the Divine Presence
[Angel of Jehovah]
[Serpent-holder]
He repented that he had made Adam
(of the Female, the Adamah)
&
it grieved him at his heart
[About the serpent and figure (? Satan) to the right:]
Good
[Lilith]
Satans Wife The Goddess Nature is War & Misery & Heroism a Miser
[About the serpent and figure (? Adam) to the left:]
Evil
Good & Evil are
Riches & Poverty a Tree of Misery
propagating Generation & Death
[Remaining aphorisms, reading outward in thematic order:]
What can be Created Can be Destroyed
Adam is only The Natural Man & not the Soul or Imagination
The Eternal Body of Man is The IMAGINATION.
God himself |
that
is
| 
[Yeshua] JESUS We are his Members
The Divine Body |
| It manifests itself in his Works of Art (In Eternity All is Vision) | |
| All that we See is VISION from Generated Organs gone as soon as come | |
| Permanent in The Imagination; considered as Nothing by the NATURAL MAN | |
| HEBREW ART is called SIN by the Deist SCIENCE | |
| The whole Business of Man Is The Arts & All Things Common | |
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| Christianity is Art & not Money | |
| Money is its Curse | |
| The Old & New Testaments are the Great Code of Art | |
| Jesus & his Apostles & Disciples were all Artists | |
| Their Works were destroyd by the Seven Angels of the Seven Churches in
Asia. Antichrist Science | |
| SCIENCE is the Tree of DEATH | |
| ART is the Tree of LIFE GOD is JESUS | |
| The Gods of Priam are the Cherubim of Moses & Solomon The Hosts of
Heaven | |
| The Gods of Greece & Egypt were Mathematical Diagrams See Plato's Works | |
| There are States in which all Visionary Men are accounted Mad | |
| Men such are Greece & Rome Such is Empire or Tax | |
| See Luke Ch 2 v I | |
| Art Degraded Imagination Denied War Governed the Nations | |
| Divine Union Deriding And Denying Immediate Communion with God | |
| The Spoilers say Where are his Works That he did in the Wilderness | |
| Lo what are these Whence came they These are not the Works | |
| Of Egypt nor Babylon Whose Gods are the Powers of this World. Goddess,
Nature. t | |
| Who first spoil & then destroy Imaginative Art For their Glory is War
and Dominion | |
| Empire against Art See Virgils Eneid. Lib. VI. v 848 | |
| Spiritual War | |
| Israel deliverd from Egypt is Art deliverd from Nature & Imitation | |
| What we call Antique Gems are the Gems of Aarons Breast Plate | |
| Prayer is the Study of Art | |
| Praise is the Practise of Art | |
| Fasting &c. all relate to Art | |
| The outward Ceremony is Antichrist | |
| Without Unceasing Pracise nothing can be done | |
| Practise is Art If you leave off you are Lost | |
| A Poet a Painter a Musician an Architect: the Man | |
| Or Woman who is not one of these is not a Christian | |
| You must leave Fathers & Mothers & Houses & Lands if they
stand in the way of ART | |
| The unproductive Man is not a Christian much less the Destroyer | |
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| The True Christian Charity not dependent on Money (the lifes blood of Poor
Families) that is on Caesar or Empire or Natural Religion | |
| For every Pleasure Money Is Useless | |
| Money, which is The Great Satan or Reason the Root of Good & Evil In
The Accusation of Sin | |
| Where any view of Money exists Art cannot be carried on, but War only (Read
Matthew CX. 9 & 10 v) by pretences to the Two Impossibilities Chastity&
Abstinence Gods of the Heathen | |
| Is not every Vice possible to Man described in the Bible openly | |
| All is not Sin that Satan calls so all the Loves & Graces of Eternity. | |
| If Morality was Christianity Socrates was the Saviour | |
| Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed | |
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