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PLATE 1
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THE GHOST of ABEL
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A Revelation In the Visions of Jehovah
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Seen by William Blake
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To LORD BYRON in the Wilderness
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What doest thou here Elijah?
GhostOfAbelepigraph; E270|
Can a Poet doubt the Visions of Jehovah? Nature has no Outline:
GhostOfAbelepigraph; E270|
but Imagination has. Nature has no Tune: but Imagination has!
GhostOfAbelepigraph; E270|
Nature has no Supernatural & dissolves: Imagination is Eternity
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Scene. A rocky Country. Eve fainted over the dead body
GhostOfAbelstagedr; E270|
of Abel which lays near a Grave. Adam kneels by her Jehovah
GhostOfAbelstagedr; E270|
stands above
GhostOfAbel1.1; E271|
Jehovah-- Adam!
GhostOfAbel1.1; E271|
Adam-- I will not hear thee more thou Spiritual Voice
GhostOfAbel1.2; E271|
Is this Death?
GhostOfAbel1.2; E271|
Jehovah-- Adam!
GhostOfAbel1.2; E271|
Adam-- It is in vain: I will not hear thee
GhostOfAbel1.3; E271|
Henceforth! Is this thy Promise that the Womans Seed
GhostOfAbel1.4; E271|
Should bruise the Serpents head: Is this the Serpent? Ah!
GhostOfAbel1.5; E271|
Seven times, O Eve thou hast fainted over the Dead Ah! Ah!
GhostOfAbel1stagedr; E271|
Eve revives
GhostOfAbel1.6; E271|
Eve-- Is this the Promise of Jehovah! O it is all a vain delusion
GhostOfAbel1.7; E271|
This Death & this Life & this Jehovah!
GhostOfAbel1.7; E271|
Jehovah-- Woman! lift thine eyes
GhostOfAbel1stagedr; E271|
A Voice is heard coming on
GhostOfAbel1.8; E271|
Voice-- O Earth cover not thou my Blood! cover not thou my Blood
GhostOfAbel1stagedr; E271|
Enter the Ghost of Abel
GhostOfAbel1.9; E271|
Eve-- Thou Visionary Phantasm thou art not the real Abel.
GhostOfAbel1.10; E271|
Abel- Among the Elohim a Human Victim I wander I am their House
GhostOfAbel1.11; E271|
Prince of the Air & our dimensions compass Zenith & Nadir
GhostOfAbel1.12; E271|
Vain is thy Covenant O Jehovah I am the Accuser & Avenger
GhostOfAbel1.13; E271|
Of Blood O Earth Cover not thou the Blood of Abel
GhostOfAbel1.14; E271|
Jehovah-- What Vengeance dost thou require
GhostOfAbel1.14; E271|
Abel-- Life for Life! Life for Life! t350
GhostOfAbel1.15; E271|
Jehovah-- He who shall take Cains life must also Die O Abel
GhostOfAbel1.16; E271|
And who is he? Adam wilt thou, or Eve thou do this
GhostOfAbel1.17; E271|
Adam-- It is all a Vain delusion of the all creative Imagination
GhostOfAbel1.18; E271|
Eve come away & let us not believe these vain delusions
GhostOfAbel1.19; E271|
Abel is dead & Cain slew him! We shall also Die a Death
GhostOfAbel1.20; E271|
And then! what then? be as poor Abel a Thought: or as
GhostOfAbel1.21; E271|
This! O what shall I call thee Form Divine! Father of Mercies
GhostOfAbel1.22; E271|
That appearest to my Spiritual Vision: Eve seest thou also.
GhostOfAbel1.23; E271|
Eve-- I see him plainly with my Minds Eye. I see also Abel living:
GhostOfAbel1.24; E271|
Tho terribly afflicted as We also are. yet Jehovah sees him
GhostOfAbel2.1; E271|
Alive & not Dead: were it not better to believe Vision
GhostOfAbel2.2; E271|
With all our might & strength tho we are fallen & lost
GhostOfAbel2.3; E271|
Adam-- Eve thou hast spoken truly. let us kneel before his feet.
GhostOfAbel2stagedr; E271|
The Kneel before Jehovah
GhostOfAbel2.4; E272|
Abel-- Are these the Sacrifices of Eternity O Jehovah, a Broken Spirit
GhostOfAbel2.5; E272|
And a Contrite Heart. O I cannot Forgive! the Accuser hath
GhostOfAbel2.6; E272|
Enterd into Me as into his House & I loathe thy Tabernacles
GhostOfAbel2.7; E272|
As thou hast said so is it come to pass: My desire is unto Cain
GhostOfAbel2.8; E272|
And He doth rule over Me: therefore My Soul in fumes of Blood
GhostOfAbel2.9; E272|
Cries for Vengeance: Sacrifice on Sacrifice Blood on Blood
GhostOfAbel2.10; E272|
Jehovah-- Lo I have given you a Lamb for an Atonement instead
GhostOfAbel2.11; E272|
Of the Transgres[s]or, or no Flesh or Spirit could ever Live
GhostOfAbel2.12; E272|
Abel-- Compelled I cry O Earth cover not the Blood of Abel
GhostOfAbel2stagedr; E272|
Abel sinks down into the Grave. from which arises Satan
GhostOfAbel2stagedr; E272|
Armed in glittering scales with a Crown & a Spear
GhostOfAbel2.12; E272|
Satan-- I will have Human Blood & not the blood of Bulls or Goats
GhostOfAbel2.14; E272|
And no Atonement O Jehovah the Elohim live on Sacrifice
GhostOfAbel2.15; E272|
Of Men: hence I am God of Men: Thou Human O Jehovah.
GhostOfAbel2.16; E272|
By the Rock & Oak of the Druid creeping Mistletoe & Thorn
GhostOfAbel2.17; E272|
Cains City built with Human Blood, not Blood of Bulls & Goats
GhostOfAbel2.18; E272|
Thou shalt Thyself be Sacrificed to Me thy God on Calvary
GhostOfAbel2.19; E272|
Jehovah-- Such is My Will. <GhostOfAbelstagedr> Thunders
GhostOfAbel2.19; E272|
that Thou Thyself go to Eternal Death
GhostOfAbel2.20; E272|
In Self Annihilation even till Satan Self-subdud Put off Satan
GhostOfAbel2.21; E272|
Into the Bottomless Abyss whose torment arises for ever & ever.
GhostOfAbel2stagedr; E272|
On each side a Chorus of Angels entering Sing the following
GhostOfAbel2.22; E272|
The Elohim of the Heathen Swore Vengeance for Sin! Then Thou stoodst
GhostOfAbel2.23; E272|
Forth O Elohim Jehovah! in the midst of the darkness of the Oath! All Clothed
GhostOfAbel2.24; E272|
In Thy Covenant of the Forgiveness of Sins: Death O Holy! Is this Brotherhood
GhostOfAbel2.25; E272|
The Elohim saw their Oath Eternal Fire; they rolled apart trembling over
The
GhostOfAbel2.26; E272|
Mercy Seat: each in his station fixt in the Firmament by Peace Brotherhood
and Love.
GhostOfAbel2end; E272|
The Curtain falls
GhostOfAbel2end; E272|
The Voice of Abels Blood t351
GhostOfAbelcolophon; E272|
1822 W Blakes Original Stereotype was 1788 t352
