Chapter 4
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385: and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.
386: This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.
387: But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul, is to be expunged:
388: this I shall do, by printing in the infernal method, by corrosives,
389: which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid.
390: If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
391: For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.
392: I was in a Printing house in Hell & saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
393: In the first chamber was a Dragon-Man, clearing away the rubbish from a caves moth;
394: within, a number of Dragons were hollowing the cave.
395: In the second chamber was a Viper folding round the rock & the cave,
396: and others adorning it with gold, silver and precious stones.