![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() According to God, there will be one man that will give birth to an entire race but he'll live somewhere else, not in Heaven.God, Raphael says, sees Satan fall and tells His Son that he will now create another world, lest Satan boast that he took a bunch of angels with him.He warns Adam not to get too curious after he leaves knowledge is like food, he tells him, and also must be rationed, otherwise one will get sick. Raphael says he'll tell him, though it too will be tough to explain.He asks Raphael to say why and how God created the world. Adam and Eve have listened attentively to Raphael, and now Adam wants to know more, especially about the creation of the world.He asks his muse to protect him from the fate that befell Orpheus (the "Thracian bard"), who was torn to pieces. It's safer there, even though he (John Milton) is surrounded by dangers.For the rest of the poem, he will sing "Standing on earth." She helped him aspire to (i.e., sing about) Heaven, and now he wants her to help return to earth.She's not one of the traditional nine muses of Ancient Greece she predates those pagan figures. The narrator begins Book 7, imploring his Muse, Urania, to descend from Heaven. ![]()
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