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Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "75"

Lettered inside image: "And Rahab, Babylon the Great, hath destroyed Jerusalem. | Bath stood upon the Severn with Merlin & Bladud & Arthur, | The Cup of Rahab in his hand: her Poisons Twenty-seven-fold. | And all her Twenty-seven Heavens, now hid & now reveal'd, | Appear in strong delusive light of Time & Space, drawn out | In shadowy pomp by the Eternal Prophet, created evermore: | For Los in Six Thousand Years walks up & down continually, | That not one Moment of Time be lost, & every revolution | Of Space he makes permanent in Bowlahoola & Cathedron. | And these the names of the Twenty-seven Heavens & their Churches: | Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Manalaleel, Jared, Enoch, | Methuselah, Lamech : these are the Giants mighty, Hermaphroditic. | Noah, Shem, Arphaxad, Cainan the Second, Satan, Heber, | Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah: these are the Female Males: | A Male within a Female hid as in an Ark & Curtains. | Abraham, Moses, Solomon, Paul, Constantine, Charlemaine, | Luther, these Seven are the Male Females: the Dragon Forms: | The Female hid within a Male : thus Rahab is reveal'd, | Mystery, Babylon the Great: the Abomination of Desolation : | Religion hid in War: a Dragon red & hidden Harlot. | But Jesus breaking thro' the Central Zones of Death & Hell | Opens Eternity in Time & Space: triumphant in Mercy. | Thus are the Heavens form'd by Los within the Mundane Shell: | And where Luther ends Adam begins again in Eternal Circle, | To awake the Prisoners of Death: to bring Albion again | With Luvah into light eternal, in his eternal day. | But now the Starry Heavens are fled from the mighty limbs of Al | bion."