Laocoon (Blake)

[Laocoön]
      If Morality was Christianity Socrates was the Saviour[1]
יה [Jehovah] & his two Sons Satan & Adam as they were copied from the Cherubimof Solomons Temple by three Rhodians & applied to Natural Fact, or History of Ilium      Art Degraded Imagination Denied War Governed the Nations
5Evil[2]
Good & Evil are[3]Riches & Poverty a Tree of            Misery      propagating      10 Generation & Death
The Gods of Priam are the Cherubim of Moses & Solomon: The Hosts[4]            of Heaven
Without Unceasing Practise nothing can be done Practise is Art      If you leave off you are Lost
15 The Angel of the Divine Presence[5]
מלאך יהוה [Angel of Jehovah]
ΟΦΙουΧος [Serpent-holder]                   HEBREW ART is[6]            called SIN by the Deist SCIENCE      20 All that we See is Visionfrom Generated Organs gone as soon as come      Permanent in The Imagination; Considerd            as Nothing by the                  NATURAL MAN
25 What can be CreatedCan be Destroyed      Adam is onlyThe Natural Man& not the Soul30 or Imagination
Good[7]
לילית [Lilith]
Satans Wife The Goddess Nature is War & Misery & Heroism a Miser[8]
      Spiritual War35 Israel deliverd from Egypt      is Art deliverd from            Nature & Imitation
            A Poet a Painter a Musician an Architect : the Man            Or Woman who is not one of these is not a Christian40 You must leave Fathers & Mothers & Houses & Lands if they stand in the way of Art
The Eternal Body of Man is The IMAGINATION, that is God himselfThe Divine Body } ישע [Yeshua] JESUS we are his          Members
            It manifests itself in his Works of Art (In Eternity All is Vision)45 The True Christian Charity not dependent on Money (the lifes blood of Poor Families)      that is on Caesar or Empire or Natural ReligionMoney, which is The Great Satan or Reason      the Root of Good & Evil            In The Accusation of Sin
50 Prayer is the Study of Art Praise is the Practise of Art Fasting &c. all relate to Art The outward Ceremony is Antichrist
      Where any view of Money exists Art cannot be carried on, but War only
                               Read Matthew C X. 9 & 10v[9]by pretences to the Two Impossibilities Chastity & Abstinence Gods of the Heathen
He repented that he had made Adam      55 (of the Female, the Adamah)            & it grieved him at his heart
Art can never exist without[10]      Naked Beauty displayedThe Gods of Greece & Egypt were Mathematical                  60 Diagrams                  See Plato's                  Works
            Divine Union      Deriding65 And Denying ImmediateCommunion with GodThe Spoilers sayWhere are his WorksThat he did in the Wilderness            70 Lo what are theseWhence came theyThese are not the WorksOf Egypt nor BabylonWhose Gods are the Powers75 Of this World. Goddess, Nature.Who first spoil & then destroyImaginative ArtFor their Glory isWar and Dominion80 Empire against Art See Virgils Eneid.Lib. VI.v 848For everyPleasureMoney85 Is Useless
      There are States            in which. all            Visionary Men                  are accounted                  90 Mad Men            such are      Greece & Rome      Such is      Empire95 or TaxSee Luke Ch 2.v l
Jesus & his Apostles & Disciples were all Artists Their Works were destroyd by the
                               Seven Angels of the Seven Churches in Asia Antichrist Science[11]            The unproductive Man is not a Christian much less the Destroyer
The Old & New Testaments are the Great Code of Art 100SCIENCE is the Tree of DEATH            ART is the Tree            of LIFE             GOD            is JESUS
105The Whole Business of Man IsThe Arts & All Things Common            No Secre            sy in ArtWhat we call Antique Gems are the Gems of Aarons Breast Plate 110 Christianity is Art & not MoneyMoney is its CurseIs not every Vice possible to Man      described in the Bible openlyAll is not Sin that Satan calls so      115 all the Loves & Graces of Eternity
Drawn & Engraved by William Blake.[12]
c. 1826-7

Notes

  1. ↑ Below the plinth.
  2. ↑ Above the serpent's head on the left.
  3. ↑ Angled around the right arm of the left figure.
  4. ↑ Curved around the right arm of the central figure.
  5. ↑ Above the central figure.
  6. ↑ In an arc above and to the right of the central figure.
  7. ↑ Above the head of the serpent biting the central figure's left hip.
  8. ↑ Around the head and left side of the right figure.
  9. ↑ Horizontally in the top margin.
  10. ↑ Horizontally in the top margin.
  11. ↑ Vertically in the right margin, top to bottom.
  12. ↑ Signature on the plinth.


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