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(plates 17-20)
An angel came to me and said: 'O pitiable foolish man! O horrible! O
state! Consider the hot burning dungeon thou art preparing for
thyself to all eternity, to which thou art in such career. 'I said:
you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate together upon it and see your lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a stable & a church & down into the
church vault. At the end of which was a thro' the mill we went, and
came to a down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a
void boundless as a nether sky appear'd beneath us.& we held by the
of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: 'If you please we
commit ourselves to this void, and see whether is here also: if
you not, I will? ' But he answered: 'Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we remain, behold thy lot which will soon appear when the darkness
passes away. ' So I remain'd him, sitting in a twisted root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung with the downward into
the deep. By we beheld the infinite abyss, fiery 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 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 & 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 terrible noise; us was nothing now to be seen
but a black tempest, till looking east between the & waves, we saw
a cataract of mixed 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, appear'd a crest above the
slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea 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 tyger's
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung just 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 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 beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who to the harp;& his theme was: 'The man who never
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: 'All that we saw was
to your 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 proposal; but I by force caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly the night, till we were elevated
above the earth's shadow; then I flung myself him directly into the
body of the sun; here I myself in white & taking in my hand
Swedenborg's volumes, sunk 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 space it may be call'd. ' Soon we saw the and the
church,& I took him to the and open'd the bible, and lo! It was a
pit, into which I descended, driving 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, chain'd by the middle, and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their
however, I saw they sometimes grew numerous; and then the weak 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 left a helpless trunk; this, after & kissing it with
fondness, they devour'd too; and here & there I saw one savourily
picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench annoy'd us
both, we went into the mill,& in my hand the skeleton of a body,
which in the was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said: 'Thy
phantasy has upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost time to converse 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 wise; this do with a confident insolence
sprouting from systematic reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that he writes
is new; Tho' it is the contents or index of already publish'd books.
A man carried a monkey about for a shew,& he was a little wiser
than the monkey, vain, and conciev'd himself as much wiser than seven
men. It is so with Swedenborg: He shews the folly of churches &
hypocrites, he imagines that all religious,& himself the single one
on that ever broke a net. Now hear 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
& 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 of Paracelus or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborg's, and
of Dante or Shakespear an infinite number. But when he has done
this, let him not say that he better than his master, for he only
a candle in sunshine.