Los (Blake)

==Character==

==Character==

[[File:Spectre over Los from William Blake's Jeruesalem.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Los' Spectre torments him at his smithy in [[Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion|''Jerusalem'']]. This image comes from Copy E. of the work, printed in 1821 and in the collection of the [[Yale Center for British Art]]<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=jerusalem.e.illbk.06&java=no|title = Copy Information for Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion | publisher = [[William Blake Archive]]| access-date = Sep 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/transcription.xq?objectid=jerusalem.e.illbk.15| title = Object description for"Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 15 (Bentley 15, Erdman 15, Keynes 15)"| publisher = [[William Blake Archive]]|editor1=Morris Eaves |editor2=Robert N. Essick |editor3=Joseph Viscomi |access-date= September 12, 2013}}</ref>]]

[[File:Spectre over Los from William Blake's Jeruesalem.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Los's Spectre torments him at his smithy in [[Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion|''Jerusalem'']]. This image comes from Copy E. of the work, printed in 1821 and in the collection of the [[Yale Center for British Art]]<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=jerusalem.e.illbk.06&java=no|title = Copy Information for Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion | publisher = [[William Blake Archive]]| access-date = Sep 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/transcription.xq?objectid=jerusalem.e.illbk.15| title = Object description for"Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 15 (Bentley 15, Erdman 15, Keynes 15)"| publisher = [[William Blake Archive]]|editor1=Morris Eaves |editor2=Robert N. Essick |editor3=Joseph Viscomi |access-date= September 12, 2013}}</ref>]]

Los is the divine aspect of the imagination. After he becomes more mechanical and regular in his actions, he falls and becomes part of the material world. In the fallen state, he becomes the creator of life and of organic systems. He also creates reproduction and the sexes, with his own partner Enitharmon soon after being created. He then creates consciousness through evolution, which leads to the creation of humans. Los is particularly focused on humans and he uses them to breed art and use their imaginations. Eventually, it is through the evolutions of the world that Orc is formed. Like Orc and Orc's cycles, Los is part of cycles as he tries to create the Golgonooza at the beginning of time and the image appears constantly in art. Los's imagination is also connected to the natural cycle, and art within the individual is developed through natural cycles. Art is mimetic of nature but order within nature. Los represents the progression through life to the conscious state.<ref>Frye 1990 pp. 254–258</ref>

Los is the divine aspect of the imagination. After he becomes more mechanical and regular in his actions, he falls and becomes part of the material world. In the fallen state, he becomes the creator of life and of organic systems. He also creates reproduction and the sexes, with his own partner Enitharmon soon after being created. He then creates consciousness through evolution, which leads to the creation of humans. Los is particularly focused on humans and he uses them to breed art and use their imaginations. Eventually, it is through the evolutions of the world that Orc is formed. Like Orc and Orc's cycles, Los is part of cycles as he tries to create the Golgonooza at the beginning of time and the image appears constantly in art. Los's imagination is also connected to the natural cycle, and art within the individual is developed through natural cycles. Art is mimetic of nature but order within nature. Los represents the progression through life to the conscious state.<ref>Frye 1990 pp. 254–258</ref>