...unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence0 inereate, Or hear'st thou, rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool,though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight, Through...

...never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight, Through...

...first matter actually tend to equate the two. The words are these (PL 3.8-12) addressed to light : before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. The passage has been understood to tell us that by God's creative light a finite Chaos ("waters") was...

...closely associated with the androgynous breeding-hatching Dove that brought life to the waters : [Light] at the voice Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. (3.10-12) At the same time, Milton's description of Light investing or clothing the dark and deep waters...

...never but in unapproached Light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hears't thou rather pure Ethereal...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Though utter...

...light.33 First, he evokes the creation. The light, whether eternal or coeternal, is the light that "with a Mantle didst invest / The rising world of...and deep, / Won from the void and formless infinite" (III. 10- 12). There is another evocation of Genesis in the catalogue of morning and evening, the seasons,...

...VII. 372. XL 233. to the original, created light, to the rifing fun, and to Michael. -before the fun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didft inveft The rifing world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formlefs infinite. Firft...

...Light"68 and dwells in the "Bright effluence of bright essence increate" that existed "before the Sun," and at the voice Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest...and deep. Won from the void and formless infinite. (3.1-12) That effluence pours forth to fill the "Male and Female Light" of the created world. Earth...

...never but in unapproached Light Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal...Fountain who shall tell? before the Sun, Before the Heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest The rising world of waters...

...creative process in his own person. After relating the events of the first day of creation in miniature before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite (pi 3.8-12) - the poet himself rises into a light-filled world from the 'Chaos and Eternal Night (PL...