Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 3

(plate 15)
I was in a printing house in hell & saw the method in knowledge is
from generation to generation. In the first chamber 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 were adorning it
with gold, silver and precious stones. In the chamber was an eagle
with wings and feathers of air: he caused the inside of the to be
infinite; around were numbers of 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
forms, which cast the metals into the expanse. There they receiv'd
by men who occupied the sixth chamber, and took the forms of book &
in libraries.

(plates 16-17)
The who formed this world
into its sensual existence and now seem to in it in chains, are in
truth the causes of its life & the sources of all activity; but the
are the cunning of weak and tame minds have power to resist energy,
according to the proverb, the weak in courage is strong in cunning.
one portion of is the prolific, the other the devouring: to the
devourer it seems as if the producer was in his but it is no so,
he only takes portions of existence and that the whole. But the
prolific would cease to be prolific unless the devourer, as a sea
the excess of his delights. Some will say: 'Is not God alone the
' I 'God only acts & is, in existing beings or men'. These two
classes of men are always earth,& they should be enemies: whoever
tries to reconcile them seeks to destroy existence. 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 send peace, but a sword. ' Messiah or or tempter was
formerly to be one of the antediluvians who are our energies.