Vala, or The Four Zoas

William Blake

10 chapters · about 3 h

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The opening

VALA Night the First

The Song of the Aged Mother which shook the heavens with wrath Hearing the march of long resounding strong heroic Verse Marshalld in order for the day of Intellectual Battle

Four Mighty Ones are in every Man; a Perfect Unity Cannot Exist. but from the Universal Brotherhood of Eden The Universal Man. To Whom be Glory Evermore Amen

John XVII c. 21 & 22 & 23 v John I c. 14. v και: εσκηνωσεν εν: ημιν

[What] are the Natures of those Living Creatures the Heavenly Father only [Knoweth] no Individual [Knoweth nor] Can know in all Eternity

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