We are following simplest cycle that is discernible in Blake - that of Fall, Return and Judgment. Man falls from the idyllic state of innocence, passes through experience and reaches a transformative event where all that can be annihilated is annihilated.
The third stage, Judgment, also goes by the name Apocalypse.
"Though the Last Judgment comes as a climax to the process we have been describing, Judgment is, like Creation and Redemption, continuous.
...For Blake his own age seemed ripe for
a whole destruction of error. Man, it seem, will not give
himself to a Last Judgment until error has become intolerable.
... the activities which characterize it are of two sorts. Error is first burned away in the fires of Orc. Then the labors of reconstruction begin...With the Last Judgment man's disorganized powers
"resume the image of the human
Cooperating in the bliss of Man obeying his Will
Servants to the infinite & Eternal of the Human form"
Four Zoas, Night IX, (E 395)
The 'dark religions' depart and 'sweet science reigns.'"
APOCALYPSE - JUDGMENT
MAN'S JOURNEY
SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION II
REJECTING ERROR
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