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The addition will be reading which was arranged into the new format in 1674 contains 12 books. And this current translation was done by Project Gutenberg the blank verse and clever wordplay of Milton does make for a difficult read However, I will do my very best to make this story come to life for you and perhaps help you Drift Off to Sleep Book 1. Of Man's first Disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world and all our woe. With loss of Eden till one greater man restore us and regain the Blissful scenes seeing Heavenly Muse that on the secret top of orap or of Sinai didst Inspire that Shepherd who first taught the chosen seed in the beginning how the heavens and earth rose out of Chaos. Silent Hill 2 Light Beam or in Saint Louis broke that load fast by the Oracle of God and thence invoke thy Aid to my adventurous song. That was no middle flight intends to soar above the aonian mount while it pursues things unattempted yet in prose and rhyme. And chiefly thou own spirit that tast prefer before all temples the upright of heart and pure instruct me for thou knowest thou from the First lost present and with Mighty Wings outspread dove-like saddest brooding on the vast abyss and mad'st it pregnant. What in me is dark illuminate. What is low raise and support that to the height of this great argument? I may assert Eternal Providence and justify the ways of God to men say first for heaven hides nothing from thy view nor the Deep tracked of he'll say first would cause moved our grandparents in that Happy State. They've heard of heaven so highly to fall off from their creator and transgress his will from one restraint Lords of the world besides who first seduced them to that phone of alt The Infernal serpent. He it was whose guile stirred up with envy and revenge to see to the mother of mankind what time his pride had cast him out from And with all his host of Rebel Angels by whose Aid aspiring to set himself in glory above his peers. He trusted to have equaled the most high if he opposed and with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God raised and bias war in heaven and battle proud with vain attempt. Him the almighty power hurled headlong flaming from the Eternal sky with Hideous ruin and combustion down to bottomless Perdition there to 12 and adamantine chains and penal fire Who Dares defy the omnipotent arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night to Mortal Men He with his horrid crew lay vanquished rolling in the fiery golf confounded though Immortal, but it's Doom reversed him two more wrath for now the thought both of lost happiness and Lasting pain torments him round. He throws his baleful eyes that witnessed huge Affliction and dismay. mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate at once as far as angels can Heap use the Dismal situation waste and wild the dungeon horrible on all sides around as one great furnace blamed it from those Flames no light but rather Darkness visible served only to discover sites of whoa regions of Sorrow doleful shades for peace and Best can never dwell never comes that comes to all but torture Without End still urges and a fiery Deluge fed with ever burning sulfur unconsumed. Such place Eternal justice has prepared for those rebellious here their prison ordained and utter darkness and their portion set as far removed from God and Light Of Heaven as from the center Thrice to the utmost Pole. Oh how and like the place from whence they fell. They're the companions of his fall overwhelmed with floods and whirlwinds of to pissed you Aspire. He soon discerns and weltering by his side one next himself in power and next in Grime long after known in Palestine and named be Hazel bub. Totally archenemy and vents in heaven called Satan with bold words breaking the horde silence thus began. If thou besties but oh how Fallen how changed from him who they happy Realms of light clothed with Transcendent brightness. Did Stout shine Marianne's though bright if he who Mutual League United thoughts and councils, it will help and hazard in the Glorious Enterprise joined with me once Now misery hath joined equal ruin into what pit thou seist from what height fallen so much the stronger proved he with his thunder until then no new the force of those dire arms yet not for those not what the potent Victor and his rage can else inflict. Do I repent or change? Now changed and outward luster that fixed mind and high disdain from the sense of injured Merit. That with the mightiest raised me to contend and to the fierce contentions brought along innumerable force of spirits armed that Durst is like his Reign and me preferring his utmost power with adverse power opposed in dubious battle on the plains of Heaven. And Chuck his throne. What does the field be lost? All is not lost. The unconquerable will and study of Revenge Immortal hate encourage. Never to submit or yield. And what else not be overcome That Glory never shall his wrath or might extort for me to Bow and sue for Grace with suppliant knee and deify has power who from the terror of his arm. So late doubted his Empire. That were low indeed that were and ignominy and shame beneath this downfall since by faith the strength of gods and this Imperial substance cannot fail since through experience of this great event in arms not worse in for side much advanced. We met with more successful. Hope resolved wage by force or guile Eternal War. Irreconcilable to our grand follow who now triumphs in the excess of Joy. So raining holds the Tyrant of Heaven So spake the apostate Angel though in pain wanting allowed but racked with deep Despair and him thus answer'd soon is bold compeer. Oh Prince. Oh chief of many Throne powers that led the embattled seraphim to War under the I conduct and in Dreadful Deeds Fearless endangered Heavens Perpetual King and put to prove as high Supremacy whether upheld by strength or chance or fate. To well, I see Andrew dire event that was sad overthrow and fouled feet hath lost us heaven and all this Mighty host in horrible destruction laid the slow as far as gods and Heavenly Essences can perish for the Mind and Spirit remains invincible. And vigor soon returns though all our Glory extinct and happy State here swallowed up in Endless misery. But what if he are konqueror whom I now of force believe o Mighty since no less than such could have overpowered such a force is ours have left us this our spirit and strength entire strongly to suffer and support our pains. That we may so suffice his vengeful ire or do him mightier Service as his thralls by right of or whatever his business be here in the heart of Hell to work in fire or do his errands in the gloomy deep. What can a veil of yet we feel strength undiminished or Eternal being to undergo Eternal punishment? We're two with Speedy words the archfiend replied. Fallen chair up to be weak his miserable doing her suffering, but of this to be sure to do aught. Good never will be our task. But ever to do ill or sole Delight as being the contrary to his high will only resist if then his Providence out of our evil seek to bring forth good or labor must be to pervert that end and out of good still to find means of evil which ofttimes may succeed so as perhaps shall grieve. If I fail not and disturb his inmost councils from their destined aim, but see the angry Victor hath recalled his Ministers of Vengeance and pursuit back to the Gates of Heaven the sulfurous hail shot after us in storm overblown hath laid the fiery surge that from the precipice of heaven received us. falling And the Thunder winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, perhaps have spent his shafts and ceases down to below through the vast and boundless deep. Let us not slip the occasion whether scorn or say she puree yielded from our foe seest thou laundry plain forlorn and Wild. the seed of desolation void of light save what the glimmering of these live in Planes casts pale and Dreadful That their last tent from off the tossing of these firing waves their rest, if any rest, can Harbor there and reassembling are afflicted Powers consult how we met henceforth most offend our enemy. Our own Los Al repair how overcome this dire calamity. What reinforcement we may gain from Hope if not, what resolution from despair the Satan taking to his nearest mate with Head Up Lift above the wave and eyes that sparkling placed. His other parts besides prone on the flood extended long and large like floating many rude in bulk. as huge as whom the people's name of monstrous size titanian on earth born that Lord on jove Briar Rose or Typhon home the den of ancient Tarsus held for that Sea Beast Leviathan which God of all his works created hugest that swim the ocean stream him at least lumbering on the Norway foam the pilot of some small night foundered skiff deeming some Island oft as him until with fixed anger in his scaly rind Moore's by his side under the LIE All night invest the sea and wished more and delays so stretched out huge and lengthy archfiend play chained on burning Lake nor evidence had risen or heaved his head. But that the will and high permission of all ruling Heaven left him at large to his own designs that with reiterated crimes. He might he found himself damnation. Well, he saw evil to others and enraged might see how all his Mel is served but to bring forth infinite goodness Grace. Mercy shown on man by him seduced but on himself treble confusion wrath and Vengeance poured forth with up right here ears from off the pool his mighty stature on each hand blames driven backward slope there pointing Spires. and rolled in pillows leave in the midst of a horrid Veil then with expanded Wings. He steers his flight Aloft incumbent on the Dusky air. But felt unusual wait till on dry land he lights. If it were land that ever burned with solid as the lake with Liquid Fire. And such appeared in Hugh as when the force of subterranean wind transports a hill. Who's combustible and fueled and trails thence conceiving fire sublimed with mineral fiery a the winds and leave a singed bottom all the Vault stench and smoke. Such resting found the soul of unblessed feet him followed his next mate both glorying to have escaped the sticky and flood has gods and buy their own recovered strength not by the sufferance of supernal power. Is this the region this the soil this The Climb said then the Lost Ark Angel. This the seat that we must change for heaven this mournful Gloom for that Celestial light be it's so since he who now is Sovereign can dispose and bid what shall be right farthest from him is best reason happy quilt Force hath made Supreme above his equals farewell. Happy Fields were Joy forever dwells. Hail horror hail infernal world and thou profoundest he'll receive the new possessor one who brings a mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell the hell of Heaven what matter where if I be still the same? And what I should be all but less than he who Dunder hath made greater. Here at least we shall be free. The almighty have not built here for his Envy will not drive us. Hence here. We may Reign secure and did my choice to rain is worth ambition though in hell? Better to reign in Hell than serve in heaven. But wherefore let me then our Faithful Friends the associates co-partners of our loss Linus astonished on the oblivious pool and call them not to share with us their part in this unhappy mansion. I once more with rallied arms to try but maybe yet regained in heaven or what more lost in the hell. So Satan spake and him being zebub thus answer'd. Leader of those armies bright which by the omnipotent none could have boiled. If once they hear that voice their Lively as Pledge of Hope in fears and dangers heard so often worst extremes and on perilous edge of battle. when it ranged in all assaults their surest signal they will soon resume new courage and revive the ho now they lie groveling and prostrate on Ian Lake Fire as we were while astounded and amazed. No wonder Fallen such a pernicious a'ight. He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend was moving toward the shore his ponderous Shield ethereal temper Massey large and round behind him cast. Broad circumference hung on his shoulders like the moon whose or through optic glass the Tuscan artist views and evening from the top of the soul in valdarno to decry new lands rivers mountains. in her Spa d Globe his spear to equal which the tallest pine Hyuna Norwegian Hills to be the Mast of some great Emeril were but a wand he walked with To support an easy steps of at the burning Morrow. Not like those steps on Heaven's jour. And the toward climbs mount on him. So herbicides faulted with fire nonetheless. He saw endured toll on the beach of that inflamed to see stood and called his Legions. Angel forms Who lay entranced thick as Adam no leaves that Stroh the Brooks or scattered said to float when the fierce winds Orion armed at the Vex the Red Sea Coast whose waves over through Bucyrus and his memphian chivalry wall with perfidious hatred. They pursued the sojourners of Goshen who beheld The same Shore they're floating carcasses and broken chariot wheels. this ends part 1 book 1 sweet and creepy dreams
ASMR reading of Paradise Lost by John Milton, 1667. A special shout out to JoeZep, who requested this book as our next epic-length project. *Note: the blank verse does make for a difficult read and it does take me a bit to warm up to a comfortable cadence. I do get there though! The edition we’ll be reading, which was arranged into the new format in 1674, contains twelve books, and was translated by Project Gutenberg. The blank verse and clever word-play of Milton does make for a difficult read; however, I will do my best to make this story come to life for you and perhaps, help you drift off to sleep. The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man regarding the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The story opens with the outcast Satan and his followers, recovering from defeat against God. They build a palace, called Pandemonium, where they hold council to determine whether or not to return to battle. Instead they decide to explore a new world prophesied to be created, where a safer course of revenge can be planned. Satan undertakes the mission alone. At the gates, he meets his offspring who unbar the gates for him. He journeys across chaos till he sees the new universe floating near the larger globe which is heaven. God sees Satan flying towards this world and foretells the fall of man. His Son, who sits at his right hand, offers to sacrifice himself for man's salvation. Meanwhile, Satan enters the new universe. He flies to the sun, where he tricks an angel, Uriel, into showing him the way to man's home. Satan gains entrance into the Garden of Eden, where he finds Adam and Eve and becomes jealous of them. He overhears them speak of God's commandment that they should not eat the forbidden fruit. Uriel warns Gabriel and his angels, who are guarding the gate of Paradise, of Satan's presence. Satan is apprehended by them and banished from Eden. God sends Raphael to warn Adam and Eve about Satan. Raphael recounts to them how jealousy against the Son of God led a once favored angel now against God in heaven, and how the Son, Messiah, cast him and his followers out. He relates how the world was created so mankind could one day replace the fallen angels in heaven. Satan returns to earth, and enters a serpent. Finding Eve alone he induces her to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree. Adam, resigned to join in her fate, eats also. Their innocence is lost and they become aware of their nakedness. In shame and despair, they become hostile to each other. The Son of God descends to earth to judge them, mercifully delaying their sentence of death. His children, sensing Satan's success, build a highway to earth, their new ho  ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 