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Lettered upper right: "14"; inside image: "One hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. | He views the Cherub at the Tree of Life, also the Serpent, | Orc the first born coil'd in the south: the Dragon Urizen: | Tharmas the Vegetated Tongue, even the Devouring Tongue: | A threefold region, a False brain: a False heart: | And false bowels: altogether composing the False Tongue, | Beneath Beulah: as a wat'ry flame revolving every way, | And as dark roots and stems: a Forest of affliction: growing | In seas of sorrow. Los also views the Four Females: | Ahania, and Enion, and Vala and Enitharmon lovely, | And from them all the lovely beaming Daughters of Albion. | Ahania & Enion & Vala, are three evanescent shades: | Enitharmon is a vegetated mortal Wife of Los: | His Emanation, yet his Wife till the sleep of Death is past. | Such are the Buildings of Los: & such are the Woofs of Enitharmon. | And Los beheld his Sons, and he beheld his Daughters: | Every one a translucent Wonder: a Universe within, | Increasing inwards, into length, and breadth, and heighth: | Starry & glorious: and they, every one in their bright loins, | Have a beautiful golden gate which opens into the vegetative world: | And every one a gate of rubies & all sorts of precious stones | In their translucent hearts, which opens into the vegetative world: | And every one a gate of iron dreadful and wonderful | In their translucent heads, which opens into the vegetative world. | And every one has the three regions Childhood: Manhood: & Age. | But the gate of the tongue, the western gate in them is clos'd, | Having a wall builded against it : and thereby the gates | Eastward & Southward & Northward, are incircled with flaming fires. | And the North is Breadth, the South is Heighth & Depth : | The East is Inwards : & the West is Outwards every way. | And Los beheld the mild Emanation Jerusalem eastward bending | Her revolutions toward the Starry Wheels in maternal anguish, | Like a pale cloud arising from the arms of Beulah's Daughters: | In Entuthon Benython's deep Vales beneath Golgonooza."