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 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 cave: down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, 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 ourselves to this void, and see whether providence is here if
you will not, I will? ' But he 'Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, behold thy lot which will soon appear the darkness
passes away. ' So I remain'd with him, sitting in a root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung with the head into
the deep. By degrees we beheld the infinite abyss, as the smoke of a
burning city; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, but
shinning; it were 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 them: are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now asked my which was my eternal
lot? He said: 'Between the black & white spiders' but now, from
the black & spiders, a cloud and fire burst and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so 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 east between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a cataract of blood mixed 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; it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two of crimson fire, from which the sea fled away in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the of Leviathan; his forehead was
divided into streaks of green & purple like those on a tyger's
we saw his mouth & red gills hung just above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep with 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;& this 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 theme was: 'The man who
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: that we saw was owing
to your metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found on a bank by
moonlight a harper. But now we have seen my eternal lot, shall I
shew you yours? ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by suddenly caught
him in my arms,& westerly thro' the night, till we were elevated
above the earth's then I flung myself with him directly into 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
till we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& then leap'd into
the void between Saturn & fixed stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is lot, in
this space, if space it may be call'd. ' we saw the stable and the
church,& I took him to the 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 brick; one we enter'd; in it were a of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, chain'd by the middle, and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the of their chains:
however, I saw that they sometimes 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 and then another, till the
was left a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they devour'd too; and here & 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 hand brought the of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the said: 'Thy
has imposed upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but time to converse with you
whose works are only analytics. ' Opposition is friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always found that angels the vanity to speak of
themselves as the wise; this they do with a confident insolence
from systematic reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that what he writes
is Tho' 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 little
the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd himself as much wiser than seven
men. It is so Swedenborg: He shews 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
written one net truth, now hear another: he has 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 superficial opinions, and an analysis of the
sublime but not further. Have now another fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the of Paracelus or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of equal with Swedenborg's, and from
those of Dante or Shakespear an infinite number. But when he has
this, let him not say that he knows than his master, for he only
a candle in sunshine.