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Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "69"

Lettered inside image: "Then all the Males conjoined into One Male, & every one | Became a ravening eating Cancer growing in the Female, | A Polypus of Roots of Reasoning, Doubt, Despair & Death, | Going forth & returning from Albion's Rocks to Canaan: | Devouring Jerusalem from every Nation of the Earth. | Envying stood the enormous Form at variance with Itself | In all its Members: in eternal torment of love & jealousy: | Driv'n forth by Los time after time from Albion's cliffy shore: | Drawing the free loves of Jerusalem into infernal bondage, | That they might be born in contentions of Chastity & in | Deadly Hate between Leah & Rachel, Daughters of Deceit & Fraud: | Bearing the Images of various Species of Contention | And Jealousy & Abhorrence & Revenge & deadly Murder, | Till they refuse liberty to the Male: & not like Beulah | Where every Female delights to give her maiden to her husband. | The Female searches sea & land for gratifications to the | Male Genius: who in return clothes her in gems & gold | And feeds her with the food of Eden, hence all her beauty beams. | She Creates at her will a little moony night & silence | With Spaces of sweet gardens & a tent of elegant beauty : | Closed in by a sandy desart & a night of stars shining, | And a little tender moon & hovering angels on the wing. | And the Male gives a Time & Revolution to her Space | Till the time of love is passed in ever varying delights. | For All Things Exist in the Human Imagination, | And thence in Beulah they are stolen by secret amorous theft, | Till they have had Punishment enough to make them commit Crimes. | Hence rose the Tabernacle in the Wilderness & all its Offerings, | From Male & Female Loves in Beulah & their Jealousies, | But no one can consummate Female bliss in Los's World without | Becoming a Generated Mortal, a Vegetating Death. | And now the Spectres of the Dead awake in Beulah : all | The Jealousies become Murderous, uniting together in Rahab, | A Religion of Chastity, forming a Commerce to sell Loves | With Moral Law, an Equal Balance, not going down with decision. | Therefore the Male severe & cruel fill'd with stern Revenge: | Mutual Hate returns & mutual Deceit & mutual Fear. | Hence the Infernal Veil grows in the disobedient Female, | Which Jesus rends & the whole Druid Law removes away | From the Inner Sanctuary: a False Holiness hid within the Center. | For the Sanctuary of Eden is in the Camp, in the Outline, | In the Circumference: & every Minute Particular is Holy: | Embraces are Cominglings, from the Head even to the Feet, | And not a pompous High Priest entering by a Secret Place. | Jerusalem pined in her inmost soul over Wandering Reuben | As she slept in Beulah's Night hid by the Daughters of Beulah."