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America
A Prophecy

“Descends link by link from Albion’s cliffs across the sea to bind
Brothers & Sons of America”

“For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease.”

“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life…”

“I think the corners of his mouth were dreadfully spiteful…if he has been taken away, that is a mercy, and you ought to be grateful.” p491

“He felt sure that she had been suffering from the strain and conflict of self-repression…” p492

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much” p495

“…and could take the pressure of their thought instead of urging his own…” p496

“There was no refuge now from spiritual emptiness and discontent, and Dorothea had to bear her bad mood, as she would have borne a headache.” p475

“The poor child had become altogether unbelieving as to the trustworthiness of that Key which had made the ambition and the labour of her husband’s life.” p478

“…she simply felt that she was going to say ‘yes’ to her own doom…” p481

Milton: Book 2

“To cast off Bacon, Locke & Newton from Albion’s covering
To take off his filthy garments & clothe him with
Imagination
To cast aside from poetry, all that is not Inspiration”

“Who publishes doubt & calls it knowledge; whose Science is Despair”

“And those who act with Benevolence & Virtue, they murder time on time
These are the destroyers of Jerusalem”

“…the hazards of uttering witticisms. By the very nature of a witticism, one is given very little time to assess its various possible repercussions before one is called to give voice to it, and one gravely risks uttering all manner of unsuitable things if one has not first acquired the necessary skill and experience.” p159-60

“And as to contending for a reform short of (a House of Commons not weighted with the landed class), it is like asking for a bit of an an avalanche which has already begun to thunder.” p460

“Do you suppose the public reads with a view to its own conversion?” p464

“…whether we try for nothing till we find immaculate men to work with…should you inquire which had the better motives or brains?” p466

Milton: Book 2

“The idiot Reasoner laughs at the Man of Imagination”

Calling the Human Imagination: which is the Divine
Vision & Fruition
In which Man liveth eternally”

“The Imagination is not a State: it is the Human
Existence itself
Affection or Love become a State, when divided from Imagination”

“Reaching from heaven to earth a Cloud & Human Form
I beheld Milton with astonishment”

“Debates and crucial decisions are arrived at in the privacy and calm of the great houses of this country. What occurs under public gaze…is often the conclusion of what has taken place…within such houses…each of us harboured the desire to make our own small contribution to the creation of a better world…doing so would be to serve the great gentlemen in whose hands civilization had been entrusted.” p140-1

“But oppositions have the illimitable range of objections at command, which need never stop short on the boundary of knowledge, but can draw forever on the vasts of ignorance.” p442

“…it was as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog…” p449

“…but a man likes to assume superiority over himself, by holding up his bad example and sermonizing on it.” p456

Milton: Book 1

“…Three are shut out, and
Only
Science remains thro Mercy: & by means of Science,
the Three
Become apparent in Time & Space, in the Three
Professions
Poetry in Religion: Music, Law: Painting, in Physic & Surgery:
That Man may live upon Earth till the time of his
Awaking,
And from these three, Science derives every Occupation of Men.
And Science is divided into Bowlahoola & Allamanda.

“Sir David has been attempting to tell his son the facts of life for the last five years. The young man is now twenty-three…he finds the task rather daunting and suspects he will not accomplish it before Reginald’s wedding day.

Indeed, sir. Do I understand sir, you wish me to convey the information to the young gentleman?

If you don’t mind, Stevens.

Yes, sir. I shall do my best.

Jolly grateful…”p100

“…collar all beholders would know the price of, hands duly set off with rings, and that controlled self-consciousness of manner which is the expensive substitute for simplicity.” p433

“…but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle…” p435

“…no stifling the offence of being young, a newcomer, and happening to know something more than the old inhabitants.” p440

Milton: Book 1

“Awake Albion Awake!
Lo Orc arises”

“Cruel in thy mildness”

“four are left in Golgonooza (Rintrah, Palamabron, Theotormon, Bromion)”

“Paul, Constantine, Charlemaine, Luther”

“Los is by mortals nam’d Time Enitharmon is nam’d Space”

“When under pretence to benevolence the Elect Subdud All”

“But we see only the hem of their garments
with our vegetable eyes…”

Milton: Book 1

“…and each mortal brain is walld and moated round
Within.”

“His spectre slept, his Shadow woke; when one sleeps th’other wakes.

But Milton entering my Foot…”

“But I knew not that it was Milton, for man cannot know
What passes in his members till periods of Space & Time
Reveal the secrets of Eternity.

“I’m very sorry, sir, but there appears to be a tiger in the dining room. Perhaps you will permit the twelve-bores to be used?” p42

It is surely a professional responsibility for all of us to think deeply about these things so that each of us may better strive towards attaining “dignity” for ourselves.” p52

Milton: Book 1

“I’d throw out all those people from yesterday and keep him, that’s what kind of man he is!…” p555

“To be surprised at nothing, they say, is a sign of great intelligence; in my opinion, it might serve equally as a sign of great stupidity…” p559

“You could love only your own disgrace and the incessant thought that you had been disgraced and offended.” p567

Milton: Book the First

“Urizen lay in darkness and solitude, in chains of the mind
Lock’d up”

“If you account it Wisdom when you are angry to be
Silent, and
Not to shew it: I do not account that Wisdom but Folly.”

“Hence the three Classes of Men take their fix’d
Destinations
They are the Two Contraries & the Reasoning
Negative.”

“Roman Catholicism is even worse than Atheism itself…it only preaches a zero, but Catholicism goes further: it preaches a distorted Christ…the Anti-Christ! It believes that without universal state power the Church on earth cannot stand. It’s not even a faith, but decidedly the continuation of the Western Roman Empire…the pope seized land, an earthly throne, and took up the sword: they added lies…” p544

Book of Thel

“Then if thou art the food of worms, O virgin of the
Skies,
How great thy use. how great thy blessing; every thing
that lives,
Lives not alone. nor for itself: fear not and I will call
The weak worm from its lowly bed, and thou shalt hear its voice.”

“why cannot the Ear be closed to its own destruction?”

“Virtue…saw, and pined
His loss; but chiefly to find here observed
His lustre visibly impaired” IV, 848-50

“Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose?…Courageous chief
The first in flight from pain” 917-21

“And thou sly hypocrite, who now wouldst seem
Patron of liberty, who…servilely adored
Heaven’s awful monarch? Wherefore but in hope
To dispossess him, and thy self to reign?” 957-61

“You are a puffed-up ordinariness, an unquestioning and Olympianly calm ordinariness; you are the routine of routines! Not the least idea of your own will ever be embodied in your mind or in your heart.” p480

“Unquestionably, and it all happened so simply and naturally, as things can only happen in reality; if a novelist were to turn to it, he would heap up all sorts of incredible tales.” p497

“…though he was all infected, from head to foot, with the desire to be original. But this category, as we have already noted above, is much more unhappy.” p464

“You’ve never been able to understand how interesting you’d become in her eyes if you could endure our circumstances with firmness and pride.” p471

“…she would turn coward, despite all her love of novels.” p472

Visions of the daughters of Albion

“Art thou a flower! Art thou a nymph! I see thee now a
Flower;
Now a nymph! I dare not pluck thee from thy dewy bed!”

“Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires…
And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw” IV, 604-10

“Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, which declares his dignity” 618-9

“Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen” 677-8

“Blest pair; and O yet happiest if ye seek
No happier state, and know to know no more” 774-5

“More like swallows than crows, I would have said sir, from the migratory aspect.” And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism, since I did not wish Mr. Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness.” p19