Blake's Creation

The Bible begins with Creation:
"[1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
[2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
It provides little information about 'before Creation': "without form, and void" and "darkness'-- and 'waters'.

In accordance with Ancient wisdom, which has much more to say and considered Creation more or less as an afterthought, Blake thought of Creation in this way:
It came after the division of Albion into what (much later) became known as the four functions; Blake called them the four zoas.
Agreeing with the gnostic idea Creation for Blake came from an inferior entity, primarily from Urizen. Urizen made a terrible hash of Creation; the children of his Creation could only be soulless, more like a computer than a human being.

Eventually Urizen's courage failed and Los gave the soulless creatures of Urizen Feeling.

As Los's creation continued Imagination became the secret that made people creative human beings.