[plate 2]
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 riverland 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.
[plate 3]
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