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 generation to generation. In the first chamber was a
dragon-man, clearing away the rubbish a cave's mouth; within, a
of dragons were hollowing the cave. In the second chamber was a
viper round 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 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 chamber were lions of fire, raging
around & the metals into 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 who formed this world
into its existence and now seem to live in it in chains, are in
truth the causes of its life & the sources of all but the chains
are the cunning of weak and tame which have power to resist energy,
to the proverb, the weak in courage is strong in cunning. Thus
one portion of is the prolific, the other the devouring: to the
devourer it as if the producer was in his chains: but it is no so,
he only takes portions of 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 answer: 'God only acts & is, in existing or men'. These two
of men are always upon earth,& they should be enemies: whoever
tries to 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. ' Messiah or Satan or was
formerly to be one of the antediluvians who are our energies.