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(plates 17-20)
An angel came to me and said: 'O foolish young man! O horrible! O
dreadful state! the hot burning dungeon thou art preparing for
thyself to all eternity, to which thou art going in such career. 'I
'Perhaps you be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we will
together upon it and see whether your lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a stable & thro' a church & down the
church vault. At the end of which was a mill: the mill we went, and
came to a down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a
void boundless as a nether sky appear'd beneath us.& we by the roots
of trees and hung over immensity; but I said: 'If you please we will
commit ourselves to this void, and see providence is here also: if
you not, I will? ' But he answered: 'Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, behold thy lot which soon appear when the darkness
passes away. ' So I remain'd with him, sitting in a root of an
oak; he was in a fungus, which hung with the head downward into
the deep. By we beheld the infinite abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
burning city; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, but
shinning; round it were fiery tracks on revolv'd vast spiders,
after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific shapes of animals sprung from the
air was full of them,& seem'd composed of these are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now asked my companion which was my
lot? He said: 'Between the black & spiders' but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a and fire burst and rolled thro' the
deep. all beneath, so that the nether deep grew black as a
sea,& rolled with a terrible noise; beneath us was now to be seen
but a black tempest, till looking between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a of blood mixed with fire, and not many stones' throw from us
appear'd and sunk again the scaly of a monstrous serpent; at last, to
the east, distant three degrees, appear'd a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it reared a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea away in clouds of
and now we saw it was the head of Leviathan; his forehead was
divided into streaks of green & purple like on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills just above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the fury
of a spiritual existence. My the angel climb'd up from his station
into the mill; I alone;& then this appearance was no more, but I
found myself sitting on a pleasant beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who sung to the his theme was: 'The man who never
alters his opinion is like water,& breeds reptiles of the mind. '
But I apose and sought for the mill,& I found my angel, who,
surprised asked me how I escaped? I answer'd: 'All that we saw was
to your metaphysics; for when you ran away, I myself on a bank by
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we seen my eternal lot, shall I
shew you yours? ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by force caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly thro' the night, till we elevated
above the earth's shadow; then I flung myself with him directly the
body of the sun; I clothed myself in white & taking in my hand
Swedenborg's volumes, sunk the glorious clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to Saturn: here I to rest,& then leap'd into
the void Saturn & fixed stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is your lot, in
space, if space it may be call'd. ' Soon we saw the stable and the
church,& I him to the altar and open'd the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, into which I descended, driving the angel before me; we saw
seven houses of brick; one we enter'd; in it a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, by the middle, grinning and
snatching at one another, but by the shortness of their chains:
however, I saw they sometimes grew numerous; and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, coupled with,&
then devour'd, by off first one limb and then another, till the
body was left a helpless this, after grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, devour'd too; and here & there I saw one savourily
picking the off of his own tail; as the stench terribly annoy'd us
both, we went into the mill,& in my brought the skeleton of a body,
in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said: 'Thy
phantasy has imposed me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost time to converse you
whose are only analytics. ' Opposition is true friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always that angels have the vanity to speak of
themselves as the only wise; they do with a confident insolence
sprouting systematic reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that what he writes
is new; it is only the contents or index of already publish'd books.
A man carried a monkey about for a shew,& because he was a wiser
than the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd himself as wiser than seven
men. It is so with Swedenborg: He shews the of churches & exposes
hypocrites, till he imagines that all religious,& the single one
on earth that ever a net. Now hear a plain fact: Swedenborg has not
one net truth, now hear another: he has written all the old
falsehoods. And now the reason. He conversed with angels who are all
religious & conversed not with who all hate religion. For he was
incapable thro' his conceited notions. Thus Swedenborg are a
recapitulation of all opinions, and an analysis of the more
sublime but not further. now another plain fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the writings of or Jacob Behmen,
ten thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborg's, and from
those of or Shakespear 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.