I behold the visions of my deadly sleep of 6,000 years Circling around thy skirts like a serpent of precious stones and gold. I know it is myself.

“I behold the Visions of my deadly Sleep of Six thousand Years Dazzling around thy skirts like a Serpent of precious stones and gold. I know it is my Self, O Divine Creator and Redeemer.”

What is a time in the language of scripture? Blake implies approximately 900 years. So seven times must pass over him. Blake leaves off the little additional 300 years and speaks of a solid number, 6,000 years.

The whole vast world, the sleep is so profound, it is so deep, he doesn’t know he is sleeping. And the sleep is so deep he is likened spiritually to a dead man.

I behold the visions of my deadly sleep of six thousand years dazzling around my skirts like a serpent of precious stones and gold. I know it is myself, O my divine creator and redeemer

“I behold the visions of my deadly sleep of six thousand years, dazzling around thy skirts, like a serpent of precious stones and gold, I know it is myself, O my divine creator and redeemer”

so God disappears from man, sinks himself in man, and then you do not see him for a little while, then comes the six thousand years of a deadly sleep