Of Paradise Lost: Push Down and Turn,regarding Happiness, Oh,Man!

drawing/collage by marguerita (..... seeing wife,women or whomever as another accessory in your life)

Illumin, what is low raise and support;

That to the heighth of this great Argument

I may assert Eternal Providence,

And justifie the wayes of God to men.

Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view

Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause

Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State,

Favour'd of Heav'n so highly , to fall off

From thir Creator , and transgress his Will

For one restraint, Lords of the World besides?

The dismal Situation waste and wild,

A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round

As one great Furnace flam'd, yet from those flames

No light, but rather darkness visible

Serv'd only to discover sights of woe,

Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace

And rest can never dwell, hope never comes

That comes to all; but torture without end

Can else inflict, do I repent or change,

Though chang'd in outward lustre; that fixt mind

And to the fierce contention brought along

Innumerable force to Spirits arm'd

All is not lost; th' unconquerable Will,

And study of revenge, immortal hate,

And courage never to submit or yeld;

And what is else not to be overcome?

Extort from me.To bow and sue for grace

Irreconcileable, to our grand Foe

Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy

So spake th' Apostate Angel, though in pain,

Vaunting aloud, but wrackt with deep despair:

Or do his Errands in the gloomy deep;

What can it then avail though yet we feel

Strength undimiminisht, or eternal

being

To undergo eternal punishment?

Excerpts of Paradise Lost (Book I) by

John Milton

Mi Media Naranja:: love you with all my heart.

drawing watercolor by marguerita My Soul Mate

- from Paradise Lost by John Milton ( 1667)

BOOK III

God, sitting on his throne, sees Satan flying towards this world, then newly created; shows him to the Son, who sat at his right hand; foretells the success of Satan in perverting mankind; clears his own justice and wisdom from all imputation, having created man free and able enough to have withstood his tempter; yet declares his purpose of grace towards him, in regard he fell not of his own malice, as did Satan, but by him seduced. The Son of God renders praises to his Father for the manifestation of his gracious purpose towards man; but God again declares, that grace cannot be extended towards man without the satisfaction of divine justice; man hath offended the majesty of God by aspiring to godhead, and therefore with all his progeny devoted to death must die, unless someone can be found sufficient to answer for his offence and undergo his punishment. The Son of God freely offers himself a ransom for man; the Father accepts him, ordains his incarnation, pronounces his exaltation above all names in heaven and earth; commands all the angels to adore him; they obey, and hymning to their harps in full choir, celebrate the Father and the Son. Meanwhile Satan alights upon the bare convex of this world's outermost orb, where wandering, he first finds a place since called the Limbo of Vanity; what persons and things fly up thither; thence comes to the gate of heaven, described ascending by stairs, and the waters above the firmament that flow about it. His passage thence to the orb of the sun, he finds there Uriel the regent of that orb, but first changes himself into the shape of a meaner angel, and pretending a zealous desire to behold the new creation and man whom God had placed here, inquires of him the place of his habitation, and is directed; alights first on Mount Niphates.