passages for books V and VI

Sorry everyone for the delay in this posting. My internet at my home has been extremely slow/inaccessible for some reason the past two days. I've only been able to communicate to those who have emailed me via my phone, for every time I've tried to post this my internet has crashed; thus it has been a trying and irksome few days. Nevertheless, I have finally gotten through the pinhole (it seems) to offer up these helpful moments within the text.

Book V

• 17-25 (Adam's morning song)
• 28-93 (Eve relates her dream)
• 99-121 (Adam's statements on reason, fancy, the five senses and "mimic fancy")
• 145-149 ("unmediated" prayer in the prelapsarian world)
• 156-159 *(God is in all things...)
• 171-208 *(the whole universe and earth offer Him praise)
• 235-245 *(God reiterates man's free will to choose and, importantly, He releases His culpability)
• 262 (Galileo is named! see note!)
• 265-285 (Raphael flies to earth; the phoenix)
• 332-349 (Eve gathers for the feast)
• 359-360 (Adam is servile)
• 404-443 (Raphael on the necessity of nourishment for all creation)
• 452-456 *(the 2nd request for knowledge!)
• 469-479 *(on creation: its origin and end in God; the spheres of "refinement")
• 486-490 (more on creation)
• 496-503 *(man will ascend, if only obedient by choice and if in a state of grace/love)
• 507-512 *(the golden chain of existence; free will)
• 524-534 (indeed man is perfect, yet not immutable)
• 574-576 *(earth as a shadow of Heaven)
• 580-582 (see note, Milton debates time!)
• 603-608 (Christ is anointed)
• 657-693 *(Satan's envy and resolve to revolt)
• 710 (he took with him the third part of Heaven's "stock," see note)
• 760-802 *(Satan's mount and his speech to his army arguing against God's rule)
• 812-822 *(Abdiel refuses Satan's argument)
• 853-863 *(Satan's rebuttal, "self-begot")
• 886-888 *(the golden scepter to an iron rod)

Book VI

• 1-25 *(Abdiel returns to God, witnesses His army and is met by cheers)
• 41-43 (reason and merit, see notes)
• 78-187 *(Satan's army; first day's battle beings; Abdiel and Satan exchange heated words on the battlefield; Abdiel proves a defense of servitude)
• 262-280 *(Michael calls to Satan, exposing his evil and falsehood)
• 291 (Satan thinks he can "turn Heaven into hell"!)
• 320-353 *(Satan is wounded by Michael, yet he is hurt in way beyond corporal pains; a commentary on the angels' ethereal substance of which they are 'made')
• 378-380 (the erasure of the rebellious from the books of Heaven (cf. 1.361-62))
• 406-408 (night falls; first day's battle ends)
• 428-532 *("fallible," an exemplar of Satan's falsehood; pain, though not mortal in threat; "weapons more violent;" mine the "ethereous mold" for the means to make gunpowder ("blackest grain"); the second day's battle begins)
• 558-595 *(Satan unveils his cannons and fires!)
• 635-670 *(Heaven's army rallies, they drop their weapons and throw mountains, thus all Heaven goes to "wrack"!)
• 699-718 *(on the third day's battle Christ will end the war, God professes)
• 748-770 (sunrise on the third day; Heaven's army reassembles)
• 781-784 (Christ restores Heaven to its original)
• 832-834 (all Heaven shakes, except the throne of God)
• 838-879 *(the rebels drop their weapons; (take special note of 864); they throw themselves out of Heaven
• 900-911 *(one last warning to our first parents via Raphael)