Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 4

(plates 17-20)
An angel came to me and said: 'O pitiable 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:
'Perhaps you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we
contemplate together upon it and see whether your lot or is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a stable & thro' a & down into the
church vault. At the end of which was a thro' the mill we went, and
came to a cave: down the winding cavern we our tedious way, till a
boundless as a nether sky appear'd beneath us.& we held by the roots
of trees and hung over this but I said: 'If you please we will
commit ourselves to 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, 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 head into
the deep. By degrees we the infinite abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
burning city; us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; round it were fiery tracks on which vast spiders,
crawling after their prey, which flew, or swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific shapes of animals from corruption;& the
air was full of them,& seem'd composed of them: are devils, and are
powers of the air. I now asked my companion which was my eternal
lot? He 'Between the black & white spiders' but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a and fire burst and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so that the deep grew black as a
sea,& rolled with a terrible noise; beneath us was nothing now to be
but a black tempest, looking east between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a of blood mixed with fire, and not many stones' throw from us
and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstrous serpent; at last, to
the east, distant about three degrees, a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of 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
soon we saw his mouth & red gills just above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep with beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the
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 sitting on a pleasant bank beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who to the harp;& his theme was: 'The man who never
alters his 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 we saw was owing
to your metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found on a bank by
hearing a harper. But now we have 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 thro' the night, till we were elevated
above the earth's shadow; then I flung myself with him into the
body of the sun; I clothed myself in white & taking in my hand
Swedenborg's volumes, sunk from the clime, and passed all the
planets till we to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& then leap'd into
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 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 of their chains:
however, I saw that they sometimes grew numerous; and then the were
caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, coupled with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off first one limb and then another, the
was left a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they too; and here & there 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 brought the of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said:
phantasy has upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We on one another, & it is but lost time 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 systematic reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that what he writes
is new; it is only the contents or index of already publish'd books.
A man a monkey about for a shew,& because he was a little wiser
than the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd 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 earth that ever broke a net. Now hear a plain fact: has not
written one net truth, now hear he has written all the old
falsehoods. And now hear the reason. He conversed with who are all
religious & not with devils who all hate religion. For he was
thro' his conceited notions. Thus Swedenborg writings are a
recapitulation of all opinions, and an analysis of the more
sublime but not further. now another plain fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the of Paracelus or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of value with Swedenborg's, and from
those of Dante or an infinite number. But when he has done
this, let him not say that he knows than his master, for he only
a candle in sunshine.