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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost. Albrecht Durer, Adam and Eve (1504). Paradise Lost, Book VI. Synopsis of Book VI—Raphael relates the war in Heaven:. Paradise Lost, Book VI. Synopsis of Book VI—Raphael relates the war in Heaven: Abdiel returns to report the insurrection. Paradise Lost, Book VI.

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Paradise Lost

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  1. Paradise Lost Albrecht Durer, Adam and Eve (1504)

  2. Paradise Lost, Book VI • Synopsis of Book VI—Raphael relates the war in Heaven:

  3. Paradise Lost, Book VI • Synopsis of Book VI—Raphael relates the war in Heaven: • Abdiel returns to report the insurrection

  4. Paradise Lost, Book VI • Synopsis of Book VI—Raphael relates the war in Heaven: • Abdiel returns to report the insurrection • God forgives Abdiel for being in the wrong place at the wrong time

  5. Paradise Lost, Book VI • Synopsis of Book VI—Raphael relates the war in Heaven: • Abdiel returns to report the insurrection • God forgives Abdiel for being in the wrong place at the wrong time • God appoints Gabriel and Michael to lead Heaven's army

  6. Paradise Lost, Book VI • Synopsis of Book VI—Raphael relates the war in Heaven: • Abdiel returns to report the insurrection • God forgives Abdiel for being in the wrong place at the wrong time • God appoints Gabriel and Michael to lead Heaven's army • The armies face off, with Satan and Abdiel trading insults

  7. Paradise Lost, Book VI • Synopsis of Book VI—Raphael relates the war in Heaven: • Abdiel returns to report the insurrection • God forgives Abdiel for being in the wrong place at the wrong time • God appoints Gabriel and Michael to lead Heaven's army • The armies face off, with Satan and Abdiel trading insults • The Battle: Heaven wins the first day with conventional weaponry

  8. Paradise Lost, Book VI • Synopsis of Book VI—Raphael relates the war in Heaven: • Abdiel returns to report the insurrection • God forgives Abdiel for being in the wrong place at the wrong time • God appoints Gabriel and Michael to lead Heaven's army • The armies face off, with Satan and Abdiel trading insults • The Battle: Heaven wins the first day with conventional weaponry • Satan’s Army invents gunpowder, and scores a temporary victory

  9. Paradise Lost, Book VI • Synopsis of Book VI—Raphael relates the war in Heaven: • Abdiel returns to report the insurrection • God forgives Abdiel for being in the wrong place at the wrong time • God appoints Gabriel and Michael to lead Heaven's army • The armies face off, with Satan and Abdiel trading insults • The Battle: Heaven wins the first day with conventional weaponry • Satan’s Army invents gunpowder, and scores a temporary victory • Heaven’s angels then just pick up mountains and throw them

  10. Paradise Lost, Book VI • Synopsis of Book VI—Raphael relates the war in Heaven: • Abdiel returns to report the insurrection • God forgives Abdiel for being in the wrong place at the wrong time • God appoints Gabriel and Michael to lead Heaven's army • The armies face off, with Satan and Abdiel trading insults • The Battle: Heaven wins the first day with conventional weaponry • Satan’s Army invents gunpowder, and scores a temporary victory • Heaven’s angels then just pick up mountains and throw them • On the third day, the Son rolls in and routs the rebels

  11. Paradise Lost, Book VI 1   All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, 2   Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, 3   Waked by the circling Hours, with rosy hand 4   Unbarred the gates of light. There is a cave 5   Within the mount of God, fast by his throne, 6   Where light and darkness in perpetual round 7   Lodge and dislodge by turns, which makes through Heaven 8   Grateful vicissitude, like day and night; 9   Light issues forth, and at the other door 10   Obsequious darkness enters, till her hour 11   To veil the Heaven, though darkness there might well 12   Seem twilight here: And now went forth the Morn 13   Such as in highest Heaven arrayed in gold 14   Empyreal; from before her vanished Night, 15   Shot through with orient beams; when all the plain

  12. Paradise Lost, Book VI 16   Covered with thick embattled squadrons bright, 17   Chariots, and flaming arms, and fiery steeds, 18   Reflecting blaze on blaze, first met his view: 19   War he perceived, war in procinct; and found 20   Already known what he for news had thought 21   To have reported: Gladly then he mixed 22   Among those friendly Powers, who him received 23   With joy and acclamations loud, that one, 24   That of so many myriads fallen, yet one 25   Returned not lost. On to the sacred hill 26   They led him high applauded, and present 27   Before the seat supreme; from whence a voice, 28   From midst a golden cloud, thus mild was heard. 29   Servant of God. Well done; well hast thou fought 30   The better fight, who single hast maintained

  13. Paradise Lost, Book VI 31   Against revolted multitudes the cause 32   Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms; 33   And for the testimony of truth hast borne 34   Universal reproach, far worse to bear 35   Than violence; for this was all thy care 36   To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds 37   Judged thee perverse: The easier conquest now 38   Remains thee, aided by this host of friends, 39   Back on thy foes more glorious to return, 40   Than scorned thou didst depart; and to subdue 41   By force, who reason for their law refuse, 42   Right reason for their law, and for their King 43   Messiah, who by right of merit reigns. 44   Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince, 45   And thou, in military prowess next,

  14. Paradise Lost, Book VI 46   Gabriel, lead forth to battle these my sons 47   Invincible; lead forth my armed Saints, 48   By thousands and by millions, ranged for fight, 49   Equal in number to that Godless crew 50   Rebellious: Them with fire and hostile arms 51   Fearless assault; and, to the brow of Heaven 52   Pursuing, drive them out from God and bliss, 53   Into their place of punishment, the gulf 54   Of Tartarus, which ready opens wide 55   His fiery Chaos to receive their fall. 56   So spake the Sovran Voice, and clouds began 57   To darken all the hill, and smoke to roll 58   In dusky wreaths, reluctant flames, the sign 59   Of wrath awaked; nor with less dread the loud 60   Ethereal trumpet from on high 'gan blow:

  15. Paradise Lost, Book VI . . . Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, 110   Came towering, armed in adamant and gold; 111   Abdiel that sight endured not, where he stood 112   Among the mightiest, bent on highest deeds, 113   And thus his own undaunted heart explores. 114   O Heaven! that such resemblance of the Highest 115   Should yet remain, where faith and realty 116   Remain not: Wherefore should not strength and might 117   There fail where virtue fails, or weakest prove 118   Where boldest, though to fight unconquerable? 119   His puissance, trusting in the Almighty's aid, 120   I mean to try, whose reason I have tried

  16. Paradise Lost, Book VI 121   Unsound and false; nor is it aught but just, 122   That he, who in debate of truth hath won, 123   Should win in arms, in both disputes alike 124   Victor; though brutish that contest and foul, 125   When reason hath to deal with force, yet so 126   Most reason is that reason overcome. 127   So pondering, and from his armed peers 128   Forth stepping opposite, half-way he met 129   His daring foe, at this prevention more 130   Incensed, and thus securely him defied. 131   Proud, art thou met? thy hope was to have reached 132   The highth of thy aspiring unopposed, 133   The throne of God unguarded, and his side 134   Abandoned, at the terrour of thy power 135   Or potent tongue: Fool!not to think how vain

  17. Paradise Lost, Book VI 136   Against the Omnipotent to rise in arms; 137   Who out of smallest things could, without end, 138   Have raised incessant armies to defeat 139   Thy folly; or with solitary hand 140   Reaching beyond all limit, at one blow, 141   Unaided, could have finished thee, and whelmed 142   Thy legions under darkness: But thou seest 143   All are not of thy train; there be, who faith 144   Prefer, and piety to God, though then 145   To thee not visible, when I alone 146   Seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent 147   From all: My sect thou seest;now learn too late 148   How few sometimes may know, when thousands err. 149   Whom the grand foe, with scornful eye askance, 150   Thus answered. Ill for thee, but in wished hour

  18. Paradise Lost, Book VI 151   Of my revenge, first sought for, thou returnest 152   From flight, seditious Angel! to receive 153   Thy merited reward, the first assay 154   Of this right hand provoked, since first that tongue, 155   Inspired with contradiction, durst oppose 156   A third part of the Gods, in synod met 157   Their deities to assert; who, while they feel 158   Vigour divine within them, can allow 159   Omnipotence to none. But well thou comest 160   Before thy fellows, ambitious to win 161   From me some plume, that thy success may show 162   Destruction to the rest: This pause between, 163   (Unanswered lest thou boast) to let thee know, 164   At first I thought that Liberty and Heaven 165   To heavenly souls had been all one; but now

  19. Paradise Lost, Book VI 166   I see that most through sloth had rather serve, 167   Ministring Spirits, trained up in feast and song! 168   Such hast thou armed, the minstrelsy of Heaven, 169   Servility with freedom to contend, 170   As both their deeds compared this day shall prove. 171   To whom in brief thus Abdiel stern replied. 172   Apostate! still thou errest, nor end wilt find 173   Of erring, from the path of truth remote: 174   Unjustly thou depravest it with the name 175   Of servitude, to serve whom God ordains, 176   Or Nature: God and Nature bid the same, 177   When he who rules is worthiest, and excels 178   Them whom he governs. This is servitude, 179   To serve the unwise, or him who hath rebelled 180   Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee,

  20. Paradise Lost, Book VI 181   Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled; 182   Yet lewdly darest our ministring upbraid. 183   Reign thou in Hell, thy kingdom; let me serve 184   In Heaven God ever blest, and his divine 185   Behests obey, worthiest to be obeyed; 186   Yet chains in Hell, not realms, expect: Mean while 187   From me returned, as erst thou saidst, from flight, 188   This greeting on thy impious crest receive. 189   So saying, a noble stroke he lifted high, 190   Which hung not, but so swift with tempest fell 191   On the proud crest of Satan, that no sight, 192   Nor motion of swift thought, less could his shield, 193   Such ruin intercept: Ten paces huge 194   He back recoiled; the tenth on bended knee 195   His massy spear upstaid; as if on earth

  21. Paradise Lost, Book VI 181   Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled; 196   Winds under ground, or waters forcing way, 197   Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat, 198   Half sunk with all his pines. Amazement seised 199   The rebel Thrones, but greater rage, to see 200   Thus foiled their mightiest; ours joy filled, and shout, 201   Presage of victory, and fierce desire 202   Of battle: Whereat Michael bid sound 203   The Arch-Angel trumpet; through the vast of Heaven 204   It sounded, and the faithful armies rung 205   Hosanna to the Highest: Nor stood at gaze 206   The adverse legions, nor less hideous joined 207   The horrid shock. Now storming fury rose, 208   And clamour such as heard in Heaven till now 209   Was never; arms on armour clashing brayed 210   Horrible discord, and the madding wheels

  22. Paradise Lost, Book VI 211   Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise 212   Of conflict; over head the dismal hiss 213   Of fiery darts in flaming vollies flew, 214   And flying vaulted either host with fire. 215   So under fiery cope together rushed 216   Both battles main, with ruinous assault 217   And inextinguishable rage. All Heaven 218   Resounded; and had Earth been then, all Earth 219   Had to her center shook. What wonder? when 220   Millions of fierce encountering Angels fought 221   On either side, the least of whom could wield 222   These elements, and arm him with the force 223   Of all their regions: How much more of power 224   Army against army numberless to raise 225   Dreadful combustion warring, and disturb,

  23. Paradise Lost, Book VI 226   Though not destroy, their happy native seat; 227   Had not the Eternal King Omnipotent, 228   From his strong hold of Heaven, high over-ruled 229   And limited their might; though numbered such 230   As each divided legion might have seemed 231   A numerous host; in strength each armed hand 232   A legion; led in fight, yet leader seemed 233   Each warriour single as in chief, expert 234   When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway 235   Of battle, open when, and when to close 236   The ridges of grim war: No thought of flight, 237   None of retreat, no unbecoming deed 238   That argued fear; each on himself relied, 239   As only in his arm the moment lay 240   Of victory: Deeds of eternal fame

  24. Paradise Lost, Book VI 241   Were done, but infinite; for wide was spread 242   That war and various; sometimes on firm ground 243   A standing fight, then, soaring on main wing, 244   Tormented all the air; all air seemed then 245   Conflicting fire. Long time in even scale 246   The battle hung; till Satan, who that day 247   Prodigious power had shown, and met in arms 248   No equal, ranging through the dire attack 249   Of fighting Seraphim confused, at length 250   Saw where the sword of Michael smote, and felled 251   Squadrons at once; with huge two-handed sway 252   Brandished aloft, the horrid edge came down 253   Wide-wasting; such destruction to withstand 254   He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb 255   Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield,

  25. Paradise Lost, Book VI 256   A vast circumference. At his approach 257   The great Arch-Angel from his warlike toil 258   Surceased, and glad, as hoping here to end 259   Intestine war in Heaven, the arch-foe subdued 260   Or captive dragged in chains, with hostile frown 261   And visage all inflamed first thus began. 262   Author of evil, unknown till thy revolt, 263   Unnamed in Heaven, now plenteous as thou seest 264   These acts of hateful strife, hateful to all, 265   Though heaviest by just measure on thyself, 266   And thy adherents: How hast thou disturbed 267   Heaven's blessed peace, and into nature brought 268   Misery, uncreated till the crime 269   Of thy rebellion! how hast thou instilled 270   Thy malice into thousands, once upright

  26. Paradise Lost, Book VI 271   And faithful, now proved false! But think not here 272   To trouble holy rest; Heaven casts thee out 273   From all her confines. Heaven, the seat of bliss, 274   Brooks not the works of violence and war. 275   Hence then, and evil go with thee along, 276   Thy offspring, to the place of evil, Hell; 277   Thou and thy wicked crew! there mingle broils, 278   Ere this avenging sword begin thy doom, 279   Or some more sudden vengeance, winged from God, 280   Precipitate thee with augmented pain. 281   So spake the Prince of Angels; to whom thus 282   The Adversary. Nor think thou with wind 283   Of aery threats to awe whom yet with deeds 284   Thou canst not. Hast thou turned the least of these 285   To flight, or if to fall, but that they rise

  27. Paradise Lost, Book VI 286   Unvanquished, easier to transact with me 287   That thou shouldst hope, imperious, and with threats 288   To chase me hence? err not, that so shall end 289   The strife which thou callest evil, but we style 290   The strife of glory; which we mean to win, 291   Or turn this Heaven itself into the Hell 292   Thou fablest; here however to dwell free, 293   If not to reign: Mean while thy utmost force, 294   And join him named Almighty to thy aid, 295   I fly not, but have sought thee far and nigh. 296   They ended parle, and both addressed for fight 297   Unspeakable; for who, though with the tongue 298   Of Angels, can relate, or to what things 299   Liken on earth conspicuous, that may lift 300   Human imagination to such highth

  28. Paradise Lost, Book VI 301   Of Godlike power? for likest Gods they seemed, 302   Stood they or moved, in stature, motion, arms, 303   Fit to decide the empire of great Heaven. 304   Now waved their fiery swords, and in the air 305   Made horrid circles; two broad suns their shields 306   Blazed opposite, while Expectation stood 307   In horrour: From each hand with speed retired, 308   Where erst was thickest fight, the angelick throng, 309   And left large field, unsafe within the wind 310   Of such commotion; such as, to set forth 311   Great things by small, if, nature's concord broke, 312   Among the constellations war were sprung, 313   Two planets, rushing from aspect malign 314   Of fiercest opposition, in mid sky 315   Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound.

  29. Paradise Lost, Book VI 316   Together both with next to almighty arm 317   Up-lifted imminent, one stroke they aimed 318   That might determine, and not need repeat, 319   As not of power at once; nor odds appeared 320   In might or swift prevention: But the sword 321   Of Michael from the armoury of God 322   Was given him tempered so, that neither keen 323   Nor solid might resist that edge: it met 324   The sword of Satan, with steep force to smite 325   Descending, and in half cut sheer; nor staid, 326   But with swift wheel reverse, deep entering, shared 327   All his right side: Then Satan first knew pain, 328   And writhed him to and fro convolved; so sore 329   The griding sword with discontinuous wound 330   Passed through him: But the ethereal substance closed,

  30. Paradise Lost, Book VI 331   Not long divisible; and from the gash 332   A stream of necturous humour issuing flowed 333   Sanguine, such as celestial Spirits may bleed, 334   And all his armour stained, ere while so bright. 335   Forthwith on all sides to his aid was run 336   By Angels many and strong, who interposed 337   Defence, while others bore him on their shields 338   Back to his chariot, where it stood retired 339   From off the files of war: There they him laid 340   Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame, 341   To find himself not matchless, and his pride 342   Humbled by such rebuke, so far beneath 343   His confidence to equal God in power. 344   Yet soon he healed; for Spirits that live throughout 345   Vital in every part, not as frail man

  31. Paradise Lost, Book VI 346   In entrails, heart of head, liver or reins, 347   Cannot but by annihilating die; 348   Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound 349   Receive, no more than can the fluid air: 350   All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, 351   All intellect, all sense; and, as they please, 352   They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size 353   Assume, as?kikes them best, condense or rare. 354   Mean while in other parts like deeds deserved 355   Memorial, where the might of Gabriel fought, 356   And with fierce ensigns pierced the deep array 357   Of Moloch, furious king; who him defied, 358   And at his chariot-wheels to drag him bound 359   Threatened, nor from the Holy One of Heaven 360   Refrained his tongue blasphemous; but anon

  32. Paradise Lost, Book VI 361   Down cloven to the waist, with shattered arms 362   And uncouth pain fled bellowing. On each wing 363   Uriel, and Raphael, his vaunting foe, 364   Though huge, and in a rock of diamond armed, 365   Vanquished Adramelech, and Asmadai, 366   Two potent Thrones, that to be less than Gods 367   Disdained, but meaner thoughts learned in their flight, 368   Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. 369   Nor stood unmindful Abdiel to annoy 370   The atheist crew, but with redoubled blow 371   Ariel, and Arioch, and the violence 372   Of Ramiel scorched and blasted, overthrew. 373   I might relate of thousands, and their names 374   Eternize here on earth; but those elect 375   Angels, contented with their fame in Heaven,

  33. Paradise Lost, Book VI 376   Seek not the praise of men: The other sort, 377   In might though wonderous and in acts of war, 378   Nor of renown less eager, yet by doom 379   Cancelled from Heaven and sacred memory, 380   Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell. 381   For strength from truth divided, and from just, 382   Illaudable, nought merits but dispraise 383   And ignominy; yet to glory aspires 384   Vain-glorious, and through infamy seeks fame: 385   Therefore eternal silence be their doom. 386   And now, their mightiest quelled, the battle swerved, 387   With many an inroad gored; deformed rout 388   Entered, and foul disorder; all the ground 389   With shivered armour strown, and on a heap 390   Chariot and charioteer lay overturned,

  34. Paradise Lost, Book VI 391   And fiery-foaming steeds; what stood, recoiled 392   O'er-wearied, through the faint Satanick host 393   Defensive scarce, or with pale fear surprised, 394   Then first with fear surprised, and sense of pain, 395   Fled ignominious, to such evil brought 396   By sin of disobedience; till that hour 397   Not liable to fear, or flight, or pain. 398   Far otherwise the inviolable Saints, 399   In cubick phalanx firm, advanced entire, 400   Invulnerable, impenetrably armed; 401   Such high advantages their innocence 402   Gave them above their foes; not to have sinned, 403   Not to have disobeyed; in fight they stood 404   Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pained 405   By wound, though from their place by violence moved,

  35. Paradise Lost, Book VI

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