Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 3

(plate 15)
I was in a printing house in & saw the method in which knowledge is
transmitted from generation to generation. In the first was a
dragon-man, clearing the rubbish from a cave's mouth; within, a
number of dragons were hollowing the cave. In the second was a
viper folding round the rock & the cave, and were adorning it
with gold, silver and precious stones. In the third was an eagle
with and feathers of air: he caused the inside of the cave to be
around were numbers of eagle-like men, who built palaces in the
immense cliffs. In the fourth were lions of flaming fire, raging
around & melting the into living fluids. In the fifth chamber were
unnam'd forms, cast the metals into the expanse. There they receiv'd
by men who the sixth chamber, and took the forms of book & were
in libraries.

(plates 16-17)
The giants who this world
into its sensual and now seem to live in it in chains, are in
the causes of its life & the sources of all activity; but the chains
are the cunning of weak and tame which have power to resist energy,
according to the proverb, the weak in courage is in cunning. Thus
one portion of is the prolific, the other the devouring: to the
it seems as if the producer was in his chains: but it is no so,
he only takes of existence and fancies that the whole. But the
prolific would cease to be prolific unless the devourer, as a sea
the of his delights. Some will say: 'Is not God alone the prolific?
' I answer: 'God acts & is, in existing beings or men'. These two
classes of men are always upon earth,& they be enemies: whoever
tries to reconcile them seeks to destroy existence. is an
endeavour to reconcile the two. Note: Jesus did not wish to unite,
but to seperate them, as in the parable of and goats!& He says: 'I
not to send peace, but a sword. ' Messiah or Satan or tempter was
formerly thought to be one of the who are our energies.