The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a readable datashard in. It contains an excerpt from the introduction of the 18th century book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake.

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THE ARGUMENT 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 Vote 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 and 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 Edam, and the return of Adam into Paradise. - See Isiah xxxiv, 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. William Blake