Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 3

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

(plates 16-17)
The giants who formed this
into its sensual existence and now seem to in it in chains, are in
truth the of its life & the sources of all activity; but the chains
are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have power to energy,
according to the proverb, the weak in courage is in cunning. Thus
one portion of beings is the prolific, the other the to the
it seems as if the producer was in his chains: but it is no so,
he takes portions of existence and fancies that the whole. But the
would cease to be prolific unless the devourer, as a sea received
the excess of his delights. will say: 'Is not God alone the prolific?
' I 'God only acts & is, in existing beings or men'. These two
classes of men are upon earth,& they should be enemies: whoever
tries to reconcile them to destroy existence. Religion is an
endeavour to reconcile the two. Jesus Christ did not wish to unite,
but to seperate them, as in the of sheep 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.