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(plates 17-20)
An came to me and said: 'O pitiable foolish young man! O horrible! O
dreadful state! Consider the hot dungeon thou art preparing for
thyself to all eternity, to which art going in such career. 'I said:
'Perhaps you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we
contemplate upon it and see whether your lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a & thro' a church & down into the
vault. At the end of which was a mill: thro' the mill we went, and
came to a cave: down the winding we groped our tedious way, till a
void as a nether sky appear'd beneath us.& we held by the roots
of trees and hung this immensity; but I said: 'If you please we will
commit to this void, and see whether providence is here also: if
you not, I will? ' But he answered: 'Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, thy lot which will soon appear when the darkness
passes away. ' So I remain'd with him, sitting in a root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which with the head downward into
the deep. By degrees we beheld the abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
burning city; beneath us, at an distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; round it fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders,
crawling their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific of animals sprung from corruption;& the
air was full of them,& seem'd composed of these are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now my companion which was my eternal
lot? He said: 'Between the black & white but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a cloud and fire and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so the nether deep grew black as a
sea,& rolled with a noise; beneath us was nothing now to be seen
but a black tempest, till looking between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a cataract of blood mixed with fire, and not many throw from us
appear'd and again the scaly fold of a monstrous serpent; at last, to
the east, distant about three degrees, appear'd a crest above the
slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, from the sea fled away in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the head of Leviathan; his was
divided into streaks of green & purple like on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung just above the raging foam,
the black deep with beams of blood, advancing towards us all the fury
of a spiritual existence. My the angel climb'd up from his station
the mill; I remain'd alone;& then this appearance was no more, but I
found myself sitting on a pleasant beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who to the harp;& his theme was: 'The man who never
alters his opinion is like standing water,& reptiles of the mind. '
But I and sought for the mill,& there I found my angel, who,
surprised asked me how I escaped? I answer'd: that we saw was owing
to your metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found myself on a by
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we have seen my lot, shall I
shew you yours? ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by force caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly the night, till we were elevated
above the earth's shadow; then I myself with him directly into the
body of the sun; here I clothed myself in white & in my hand
Swedenborg's volumes, sunk from the clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& then into
the void Saturn & fixed stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is your lot, in
this space, if space it may be call'd. ' Soon we saw the and the
church,& I him to the altar and open'd the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, into I descended, driving the angel before me; soon we saw
seven houses of one we enter'd; in it were a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, by the middle, grinning and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the shortness of chains:
however, I saw that they sometimes grew and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, coupled with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off first one limb and then another, the
body was left a helpless trunk; this, after & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they devour'd too; and here & there I saw one
picking the flesh off of his own as the stench terribly annoy'd us
both, we went into the mill,& in my hand brought the of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the said: 'Thy
phantasy has imposed upon me,& thou to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost to converse with you
whose works are only analytics. ' Opposition is friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always found that have the vanity to speak of
themselves as the only this they do with a confident insolence
sprouting from systematic reasoning, Swedenborg that what he writes
is new; Tho' it is only the contents or index of already books.
A man carried a monkey about for a shew,& because he was a wiser
than the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd as much wiser than seven
men. It is so with Swedenborg: He the folly of churches & exposes
hypocrites, till he imagines that all religious,& the single one
on earth that ever broke a net. Now hear a fact: Swedenborg has not
written one net truth, now another: he has written all the old
falsehoods. And now hear the reason. He with angels who are all
religious & conversed not with devils who all religion. For he was
incapable thro' his notions. Thus Swedenborg writings are a
recapitulation of all superficial opinions, and an of the more
sublime but not further. now another plain fact. Any man of
talents may, from the writings of Paracelus or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten volumes of equal value with Swedenborg's, and from
those of Dante or an infinite number. But when he has done
this, let him not say he knows better than his master, for he only
a candle in sunshine.