Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 4

(plates 17-20)
An angel came to me and 'O pitiable foolish young man! O horrible! O
dreadful state! Consider the hot burning dungeon thou art for
thyself to all eternity, to which thou art going in career. 'I said:
'Perhaps you will be to shew me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate together upon it and see whether lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he me thro' a stable & thro' a church & down into the
church vault. At the end of which was a mill: the mill we went, and
came to a cave: the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a
boundless as a nether sky appear'd beneath us.& we held 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, sitting in a twisted 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 after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the
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 asked my companion which was my
lot? He said: 'Between the black & white spiders' but now, from
the black & white spiders, a cloud and burst and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so 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 east between the & waves, we saw
a cataract of blood mixed 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 about three degrees, a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it reared like a ridge of rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea fled in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the head of Leviathan; his was
into streaks of green & purple like those on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his & red gills hung just above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep with beams of blood, towards us with all the fury
of a spiritual existence. My friend the angel climb'd up from his
into the mill; I remain'd alone;& then this 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 theme was: 'The man who
alters his opinion is like standing water,& reptiles of the mind. '
But I apose and sought for the mill,& I found my angel, who,
surprised me how I escaped? I answer'd: 'All that we saw was owing
to metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found myself on a bank by
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we seen my eternal lot, shall I
you yours? ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by force suddenly caught
him in my arms,& flew thro' the night, till we were elevated
above the earth's shadow; then I flung myself with him directly the
body of the here I clothed myself in white & taking in my hand
Swedenborg's volumes, sunk from the glorious clime, and all the
planets till we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& leap'd into
the void between Saturn & fixed stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is 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 which I descended, the angel before me; soon we saw
seven houses of brick; one we in it were a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, by the middle, grinning and
at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their chains:
however, I saw that they grew numerous; 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 grinning & it with
fondness, they devour'd too; and here & there I saw one savourily
picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the terribly annoy'd 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 upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We on one another, & it is but lost time to converse with you
whose works are analytics. ' Opposition is true friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I always found that angels have the vanity to speak of
themselves as the only wise; this do with a confident insolence
from systematic reasoning, Swedenborg boasts 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,& 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 Swedenborg has not
one net truth, now hear another: he has written all the old
falsehoods. And now hear the reason. He conversed with who are all
religious & conversed not with 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 plain fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the of Paracelus or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborg's, and
those of Dante or Shakespear an number. But when he has done
this, let him not say that he knows than his master, for he only
holds a in sunshine.