Unhemmed as it is uneven!
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- on Earth as it is in Heaven: this entire paragraph is a gloss on The Lord's Prayer
- unhemmed: perhaps "unfinished", as in the Earth being an unfinished work of divine (unfinished, since Judgment Day has not yet occurred)
- hemme: (Danish) to check, hamper
- hem: to surround and shut in.
- The word "Paradise" comes from Avestan, an Eastern Old Iranian language in which it meant "a walled garden". Therefore, "unhemmed" can refer both to Earth and to Paradise.
- unhymned
- uneven: This is the third instance of 'eve' in this paragraph, with "everliving" and "haloed be her eve". Threeness is associated with ALP.
- The negative prefix un- makes this a self-contradicting allusion: Both eve and not eve.
- unhemmed as it is uneven just literally if you are sewing a garment and it isn't hemmed it will probably remain uneven
- unhemmed: not "hemmed in"; able to go wherever she wants