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(plates 17-20)
An angel came to me and said: 'O foolish young man! O horrible! O
state! Consider the hot burning 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 eternal lot & we
contemplate together it and see whether your lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a & thro' 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 cavern we our tedious way, till a
void boundless as a nether sky appear'd beneath us.& we held by the
of trees and over this immensity; but I said: 'If you please we will
commit ourselves to this void, and see whether 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; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, but
round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders,
crawling after their prey, which flew, or swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific of animals sprung from corruption;& the
air was full of them,& composed of them: these are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now my companion which was my eternal
lot? He said: 'Between the black & white spiders' but now, between
the black & white spiders, a and fire burst and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so that the nether deep grew as a
sea,& with a terrible noise; beneath us was nothing now to be seen
but a black tempest, till looking east between the & 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 three degrees, appear'd a fiery crest above the
slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two of crimson fire, from 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 & like those on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung 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 climb'd up from his
into the mill; I remain'd alone;& then this 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 was: 'The man who never
alters his opinion is standing water,& breeds reptiles of the mind. '
But I and sought for the mill,& there I found 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
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 suddenly
him in my arms,& westerly thro' 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 clothed myself in white & taking in my
Swedenborg's volumes, sunk from the clime, and passed all the
planets we came to Saturn: here I staid 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. ' Soon we saw the and the
church,& I took him to the and open'd the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, into which I descended, driving the angel before me; we saw
seven houses of brick; one we enter'd; in it were a of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, by the middle, grinning and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the of their chains:
however, I saw that they grew numerous; and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and a grinning aspect, first coupled with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off one limb and then another, till the
body was left a 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 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:
phantasy has upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost time to 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 wise; this they do a confident insolence
sprouting from systematic reasoning, Swedenborg that what 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,& because he was a wiser
the monkey, grew 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,& himself the one
on earth that ever a net. Now hear a plain fact: Swedenborg has not
written one net truth, now hear another: he has all the old
falsehoods. And now hear the reason. He conversed angels who are all
religious & conversed not with 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. Have now another fact. Any man of
mechanical may, from the writings of Paracelus or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborg's, and
those of or Shakespear an infinite number. But when he has done
this, let him not say he knows better than his master, for he only
holds a in sunshine.