Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 3

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

(plates 16-17)
The giants who formed world
its sensual existence and now seem to live in it in chains, are in
truth the causes of its life & the sources of all activity; but the
are the of weak and tame minds which have power to resist energy,
according to the proverb, the in courage is strong in cunning. Thus
one portion of beings is the prolific, the the devouring: to the
devourer it seems as if the was in his chains: but it is no so,
he takes portions of existence 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 say: 'Is not God alone the prolific?
' I answer: 'God only & is, in existing beings or men'. These two
classes of men are always upon earth,& should be enemies: whoever
to reconcile them seeks to destroy existence. Religion is an
endeavour to reconcile the two. Note: Christ did not wish to unite,
but to seperate them, as in the of sheep and goats!& He says: 'I
not to send peace, but a sword. ' Messiah or Satan or tempter was
formerly to be one of the antediluvians who are our energies.