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 & the cave, and others were adorning it
with gold, silver and precious stones. In the third chamber was an
with and feathers of air: he caused the inside of the cave to be
infinite; around were numbers of eagle-like men, who built in the
immense cliffs. In the fourth were lions of flaming fire, raging
& melting the metals into living fluids. In the fifth chamber were
unnam'd forms, which cast the into the expanse. There they receiv'd
by men who occupied the chamber, and took the forms of book & were
in libraries.

(plates 16-17)
The giants who formed world
into its existence and now seem to live in it in chains, are in
the causes of its life & the sources of all activity; but the chains
are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have to resist energy,
to the proverb, the weak in courage 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 takes portions of existence and fancies 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. Note: 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 Satan or was
formerly to be one of the antediluvians who are our energies.