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! the hot burning dungeon thou art preparing for
thyself to all eternity, to which thou art going in career. 'I said:
you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate together upon it and see whether your lot or is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a stable & thro' a church & into the
vault. At the end of which was a mill: thro' the mill we went, and
came to a cave: down the winding we groped our tedious way, till a
void boundless as a nether sky appear'd beneath us.& we by the roots
of and hung over 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 ' 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 root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung the head downward into
the deep. By degrees we beheld the abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
burning city; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, but
shinning; round it were tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders,
crawling after their prey, which flew, or swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most shapes 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 my companion which was my eternal
lot? He 'Between the black & white spiders' but now, from between
the & white 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 with a 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 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, a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it reared like a of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, which the sea fled away in clouds of
and now we saw it was the head of Leviathan; his forehead was
divided into streaks of green & purple like those on a forehead:
soon we saw his & red gills hung just above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep with beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the
of a spiritual existence. My the angel climb'd up from his station
into the mill; I remain'd 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 like standing water,& reptiles of the mind. '
But I apose and sought for the mill,& there I my angel, who,
asked me how I escaped? I answer'd: 'All that we saw was owing
to your metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found on a bank by
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we seen my eternal lot, shall I
shew you ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by force suddenly caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly thro' the night, we were 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
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 Saturn & fixed stars. 'Here', I, 'Is your lot, in
this space, if space it may be call'd. ' we saw the stable and the
church,& I him to the altar and open'd the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, which I descended, driving the angel before me; soon we saw
seven of brick; one we enter'd; in it were a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, by the middle, grinning and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their
however, I saw that they sometimes grew numerous; and then the were
by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, first coupled with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off one limb and then another, till the
body was a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they devour'd and here & there I saw one savourily
picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench annoy'd us
both, we into the mill,& in my hand brought the skeleton of a body,
which in the was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said: 'Thy
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 analytics. ' Opposition is true friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always found that angels have the to speak of
themselves as the only this they do with a confident insolence
sprouting from systematic reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that 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, 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 imagines that all religious,& the single one
on earth that ever broke a net. Now hear a plain fact: 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 devils who all hate religion. For he was
incapable thro' his conceited notions. Thus writings are a
recapitulation of all superficial opinions, and an of the more
sublime but not further. now another plain fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, the writings of Paracelus or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand of equal value with Swedenborg's, and from
those of Dante or Shakespear an infinite number. But he has done
this, let him not say that he knows than his master, for he only
holds a in sunshine.