Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 4

(plates 17-20)
An angel came to me and said: 'O pitiable foolish man! O horrible! O
dreadful state! Consider the hot dungeon thou art preparing for
thyself to all eternity, to thou art going in such career. 'I said:
you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate upon it and see whether your lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he me thro' a stable & thro' a church & down into the
church vault. At the end of was a mill: thro' 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 over this immensity; but I said: 'If you please we will
commit ourselves to this void, and see providence is here also: if
you will not, I will? ' But he '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 him, sitting in a twisted root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung with the downward into
the deep. By degrees we the infinite abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
burning city; beneath us, at an distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders,
crawling after their prey, flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific of animals sprung from corruption;& the
air was of them,& seem'd composed of them: these are devils, and are
called of the air. I now asked my companion which was my eternal
He said: 'Between the black & white spiders' but now, from between
the black & spiders, a cloud and fire burst and rolled thro' the
deep. all beneath, so that the nether deep grew black as a
sea,& rolled a terrible 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 stones' throw from us
appear'd and sunk the scaly fold of a monstrous serpent; at last, to
the east, distant about degrees, appear'd a fiery crest above the
slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, which 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 those on a forehead:
we saw his mouth & red gills hung just above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the fury
of a spiritual existence. My friend the angel up from his station
into the mill; I remain'd alone;& then appearance was no more, but I
found myself sitting on a pleasant bank a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who sung to the harp;& his was: 'The man who never
alters his is like standing water,& breeds reptiles of the mind. '
But I apose and for the mill,& there 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 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 suddenly
him in my arms,& flew thro' the night, till we were elevated
above the shadow; then I flung myself with him directly into the
body of the sun; here I clothed myself in & taking in my hand
Swedenborg's volumes, sunk the glorious clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& leap'd into
the between 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 took him to the altar and the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, into which I descended, driving the before me; soon we saw
houses of brick; one we enter'd; in it were a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of species, chain'd by the middle, grinning and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their
however, I saw that they sometimes numerous; and then the weak were
by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, first coupled with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off first one limb and then another, the
was left a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, devour'd too; and here & there I saw one savourily
picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench terribly us
both, we went into the mill,& in my brought the skeleton of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said:
phantasy has upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost time to converse 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 wise; this they do a confident insolence
sprouting from reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that what he writes
is new; Tho' it is only the contents or index of publish'd books.
A man a monkey about for a shew,& because he was a little wiser
than the monkey, grew vain, and himself as much wiser than seven
men. It is so with Swedenborg: He the folly of churches & exposes
hypocrites, till he that all religious,& himself the single one
on earth that ever broke a net. Now hear a plain fact: has not
written one net truth, now hear he has written all the old
falsehoods. And now hear the reason. He conversed with who are all
& conversed not with devils who all hate religion. For he was
incapable thro' his conceited notions. Thus writings are a
recapitulation of all opinions, and an analysis of the more
sublime but not further. Have now another fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the writings of Paracelus or Behmen,
ten thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborg's, and from
those of Dante or Shakespear an number. But when he has done
this, let him not say he knows better than his master, for he only
holds a in sunshine.