The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell

The Argument
Engraved circa 1790
Rintrah roars, and 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 onthe bleachèd 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, and shakes his fires in the burden'd air;
Hungry clouds swag on the deep.
As a new heaven is begun, and it is nowthirty-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, and the return of Adam into Paradise. See Isaiah xxxi v and 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 and Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is
the active springing from Energy.
Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.

The Voice of the Devil
All Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors:-1. That Man has two real existing principles, viz. a Body and a Soul.
2. That Energy, call'd Evil, is alone from theBody; and that Reason, call'd Good, is alone from the Soul.
3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.
But the following Contraries to these are True:-1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the
chief inlets of Soul in this age.
2. Energy is the only life, and is from the Body; and Reason is thebound or outward circumference of Energy.
3. Energy is Eternal Delight.
Those who restrain Desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or Reason
Usurps its place and governs the unwilling.
And being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of Desire.
The history of this is written in Paradise Lost, and the Governor or Reason iscall'd Messiah.
And the original Archangel, or possessor of the command of the Heavenly Host, is call'd the Devil or Satan, and
his children are call'd Sin and Death.
But in the Book of Job, Milton's Messiah is called Satan.
For this history has been adopted by both parties.
It indeed appear'd to Reason as if Desire was cast out; but the
Devil's account is, that the Messiah fell, and formeda Heaven of what he stole from the Abyss.
This is shown in the Gospel, where he prays to the Father to send the Comforter, or Desire, that Reason may
have Ideas to build on; the Jehovah of the Bible being no other than he who dwells in flaming fire.
Know that after Christ's death, he became Jehovah.
But in Milton, the Father is Destiny, the Son a Ratio of the five senses, and the Holy-ghostVacuum!
Note . The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell,
is because he was a true Poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

A Memorable Fancy - 1
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius, which to Angels look like
torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs;thinking that as the sayings used in a nation mark its
character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or
garments.
When I came home, on the abyss of the five senses, where a flatsided steep frowns over the present world, I saw
a mighty Devil, folded in black clouds, hovering on the sides of the rock; with corroding fires he wrote the...