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 dungeon thou art preparing for
thyself to all eternity, to which thou art going in such career. 'I
'Perhaps you will be willing to shew me my lot & we will
contemplate together upon it and see whether lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a stable & 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 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 void, and see whether providence is here also: if
you will not, I will? ' But he 'Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, behold thy lot which soon appear when the darkness
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 downward into
the deep. By degrees we beheld the abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
city; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; round it fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders,
crawling after 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 of them: these 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 & white spiders, a cloud and fire and rolled thro' the
deep. all beneath, so that the nether deep grew black as a
sea,& with 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 with fire, and not many stones' throw from us
appear'd and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstrous at last, to
the east, distant about degrees, appear'd a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, we discover'd
two globes of fire, from which the sea fled away in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the head of his forehead was
divided into streaks of & purple like those 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 with all the
of a spiritual existence. My friend the climb'd up from his station
into the mill; I remain'd then this appearance was no more, but I
found sitting on a pleasant bank beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who sung to the harp;& his theme 'The man who never
his opinion 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 metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found myself on a bank by
hearing a harper. But now we have seen my eternal lot, shall I
shew you yours? ' He lugh'd at my 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, from the glorious clime, and passed all the
planets we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& then leap'd into
the void between Saturn & stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is your lot, in
this space, if it may be call'd. ' Soon we saw the stable and the
church,& I took him to the and open'd the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, which 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 witheld by the shortness of their
however, I saw that they sometimes grew numerous; and then the were
caught by the strong, and with a aspect, first coupled with,&
devour'd, by plucking off first one limb and then another, till the
body was left a helpless trunk; this, grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they devour'd too; and here & I saw one savourily
picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the terribly annoy'd us
both, we went into the mill,& in my hand the skeleton of a body,
in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said: 'Thy
phantasy has imposed 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. ' is true friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have found that angels have the vanity to speak of
themselves as the only wise; this they do with a insolence
sprouting from systematic reasoning, boasts that what he writes
is new; Tho' it is only the contents or 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,& himself the one
on earth that ever broke a net. Now a plain fact: Swedenborg has not
one net truth, now hear another: he has written all the old
falsehoods. And now hear the reason. He with angels who are all
religious & conversed not with who all hate religion. For he was
incapable his conceited notions. Thus Swedenborg writings are a
of all superficial opinions, and an analysis of the more
sublime but not further. Have now another fact. Any man of
mechanical may, from the writings of Paracelus or Jacob 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 that he knows than his master, for he only
a candle in sunshine.