Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 3

(plate 15)
I was in a house in hell & saw the method in which knowledge is
transmitted from generation to generation. In the first was a
dragon-man, away the rubbish from a cave's mouth; within, a
number of dragons were hollowing the cave. In the chamber was a
viper folding round the rock & the cave, and others were it
with gold, silver and precious stones. In the third chamber was an
with wings and feathers of air: he caused the of the cave to be
infinite; around were numbers of eagle-like men, who built in the
immense cliffs. In the fourth chamber were lions of fire, raging
around & melting the metals living fluids. In the fifth chamber were
unnam'd forms, which cast the metals into the expanse. There receiv'd
by men who occupied the 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 causes of its life & the of all activity; but the chains
are the cunning of weak and minds which have power to resist energy,
according to the proverb, the weak in is strong in cunning. Thus
one portion of beings is the prolific, the other the to the
devourer it seems as if the was in his chains: but it is no so,
he only portions of existence and fancies that the whole. But the
prolific would to be prolific unless the devourer, as a sea received
the excess of his delights. Some will 'Is not God alone the prolific?
' I answer: only acts & is, in existing beings or men'. These two
classes of men are always upon earth,& they should be whoever
to reconcile them seeks to destroy existence. Religion is an
endeavour to reconcile the two. Note: Jesus did not wish to unite,
but to them, as in the parable of sheep and goats!& He says: 'I
came not to send peace, but a sword. ' or Satan or tempter was
formerly thought to be one of the who are our energies.