The line from Jerusalem that Neville puts at the head of the crucifixion, quoted three times in a single lecture and in some forty others. Unless I die thou canst not live; but if I die I shall arise again and thou with me. Wouldest thou die for one who never died for thee? And the completion he often adds: for if God dieth not for man and giveth not himself eternally for man, man could not exist. The claim is not figurative for him - no child born of woman could cross the threshold that admits to conscious life unaided by the death of God, so every breathing conscious being is alive because God died for him. That is why the drama begins with the crucifixion rather than ending with it: the very act of crucifixion is itself the resurrection, with an interval between. Its scriptural twin is John 12:24, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies it remains alone, but if it dies it brings forth much fruit - and this body is the earth into which God falls and dies, forgetting that he is God in his belief that he is man. A child of the motif that carries Blake's companion line, God became as we are that we may be as he is; that one states the exchange, this one states its cost. NOTE FOR THE ATTACH LANES: the wording stored on the parent reads 'Unless I die you could not live', which is Neville's paraphrase and returns only two lectures. Blake's own 'thou canst not live' returns thirty-one, and 'Unless I die' thirty-eight. Probe both.