Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 3

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

(plates 16-17)
The giants who this world
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 tame which have power to resist energy,
according to the proverb, the weak in courage is in cunning. Thus
one of beings is the prolific, the other the devouring: to the
devourer it seems as if the was in his chains: but it is no so,
he only takes portions of and fancies that the whole. But the
prolific would cease to be prolific the devourer, as a sea received
the excess of his delights. Some will 'Is not God alone the prolific?
' I answer: 'God only acts & is, in beings or men'. These two
classes of men are always upon earth,& they should be whoever
tries to reconcile seeks to destroy existence. Religion is an
endeavour to reconcile the two. Jesus Christ did not wish to unite,
but to them, as in the parable of sheep and goats!& He says: 'I
came not to peace, but a sword. ' Messiah or Satan or tempter was
thought to be one of the antediluvians who are our energies.