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(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 be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate together upon it and see whether lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a stable & thro' a church & down 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
void boundless as a nether sky appear'd us.& we held by the roots
of and hung over this immensity; but I said: 'If you please we will
ourselves to this void, and see whether providence is here also: if
you will not, I ' But he answered: 'Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, thy lot which will soon appear when the darkness
passes away. ' So I remain'd with him, in a twisted root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung the head downward into
the deep. By we beheld the infinite abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
burning beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; round it were fiery tracks on revolv'd vast spiders,
crawling their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific shapes of animals sprung from 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 said: 'Between the black & white but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a and fire 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 between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a cataract of blood mixed with fire, and not stones' throw from us
appear'd and sunk again the fold of a monstrous serpent; at last, to
the east, distant about degrees, appear'd a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, which the sea fled away in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the of Leviathan; his forehead was
divided into of green & purple like those on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung just above the foam, tinging
the black deep with beams of blood, advancing us with all the fury
of a existence. My friend the angel climb'd up from his station
into the mill; I remain'd alone;& then this was no more, but I
found myself sitting on a bank beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who sung to the harp;& his theme was: man who never
alters his opinion is like standing water,& breeds of the mind. '
But I apose and sought for the mill,& I found my angel, who,
surprised asked me how I I answer'd: 'All that we saw was owing
to your 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
shew you yours? ' He at my proposal; but I by force suddenly caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly thro' the night, till we elevated
above the earth's shadow; then I flung myself with him into the
body of the sun; here I clothed myself in white & taking in my
Swedenborg's volumes, from the glorious clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& then leap'd
the void between Saturn & fixed stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is lot, in
space, if space it may be call'd. ' Soon we saw the stable and the
church,& I took him to the altar and the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, into which I descended, driving the before me; soon we saw
seven houses of brick; one we 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 chains:
however, I saw that they sometimes grew numerous; and then the were
caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, first with,&
then devour'd, by off first one limb and then another, till the
body was a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they too; and here & there 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 angel said:
has imposed upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost to converse with you
whose works are only analytics. ' Opposition is friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always found that angels have the vanity to of
themselves as the only wise; this they do with a confident
sprouting from systematic reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that he writes
is new; Tho' it is only the or index of already publish'd books.
A man carried a monkey about for a shew,& he was a little wiser
than the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd himself as much than seven
men. It is so with Swedenborg: He shews the of churches & exposes
hypocrites, till he imagines that all religious,& himself the one
on earth that ever a net. Now hear a plain fact: Swedenborg has not
written one net truth, now hear he has written all the old
falsehoods. And now hear the reason. He conversed angels who are all
& conversed not with devils who all hate religion. For he was
incapable thro' his conceited notions. Swedenborg writings are a
recapitulation of all superficial opinions, and an analysis of the
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 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
a candle in sunshine.