Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 4

(plates 17-20)
An angel to me and said: 'O pitiable foolish young man! O horrible! O
dreadful state! Consider the hot burning dungeon thou art for
to all eternity, to which thou art going in such career. 'I said:
'Perhaps you will be willing to me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate together it and see whether your lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me a stable & thro' a church & down into the
church vault. At the end of which was a thro' the mill we went, and
came to a cave: down the winding cavern we groped our way, till a
void boundless as a nether sky appear'd beneath us.& we by the roots
of trees and hung over this immensity; but I 'If you please we will
commit ourselves to this void, and see providence is here also: if
you will not, I ' But he answered: 'Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, behold thy lot which will soon appear when the
passes away. ' So I remain'd with him, in a twisted root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung with the head downward
the deep. By degrees we beheld the infinite abyss, fiery as the of a
burning beneath us, at an immense 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 shapes of animals sprung corruption;& the
air was full of them,& composed of them: these are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now asked my companion which was my
lot? He said: 'Between the black & white but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a cloud and fire burst and thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so that the nether deep black as a
sea,& rolled with a terrible beneath us was nothing now to be seen
but a black tempest, looking east between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a of blood mixed with fire, and not many stones' throw from us
appear'd and sunk the scaly fold of a monstrous serpent; at last, to
the east, distant about three degrees, appear'd a crest above the
waves; slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we
two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea away in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the of Leviathan; his forehead was
divided into streaks of green & purple like on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung just the raging foam, tinging
the black deep with beams of blood, advancing towards us all the fury
of a spiritual existence. My friend the angel up from his station
into the I remain'd alone;& then this appearance was no more, but I
found myself sitting on a pleasant bank beside a by moonlight
hearing a harper, who sung to the harp;& his theme was: 'The man who
alters his opinion is standing water,& breeds reptiles of the mind. '
But I apose and sought for the mill,& there I my angel, who,
surprised asked me how I escaped? I answer'd: 'All 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 eternal lot, I
shew you yours? ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by force suddenly
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 & taking in my hand
volumes, sunk from the glorious clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to Saturn: here I to rest,& then leap'd into
the void between & fixed stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is your lot, in
this space, if space it may be call'd. ' we saw the stable and the
church,& I took him to the altar and the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, into I descended, driving the angel 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 by the shortness of their chains:
however, I saw that they sometimes grew numerous; and then the weak
by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, first coupled with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off first one limb and another, till the
body was left a helpless trunk; this, after & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they devour'd too; and & there I saw one savourily
picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench terribly us
both, we into the mill,& in my hand brought the skeleton of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said:
phantasy has imposed upon me,& thou to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We on one another, & it is but lost time to converse with you
whose works are only analytics. ' Opposition is friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always found that angels have the to speak of
themselves as the only wise; this they do with a insolence
sprouting from systematic reasoning, Swedenborg that what he writes
is new; Tho' it is the contents or index of already publish'd books.
A man carried a about for a shew,& because he was a little wiser
the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd himself as much wiser than seven
men. It is so with He shews the folly of churches & exposes
hypocrites, till he imagines that all religious,& the single one
on that ever broke 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 devils who all religion. For he was
incapable thro' his notions. Thus Swedenborg writings are a
recapitulation of all opinions, and an analysis of the more
but not further. Have now another plain fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the writings of Paracelus or Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of equal value 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.