Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 4

(plates 17-20)
An angel came to me and said: 'O pitiable foolish man! O horrible! O
dreadful state! Consider the hot burning dungeon 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 which was a thro' the mill we went, and
came to a cave: down the winding cavern we groped our 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 this void, and see 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 will appear when the darkness
passes away. ' So I remain'd with him, sitting in a twisted of an
he was suspended in a fungus, which hung with the head downward into
the deep. By degrees we beheld the infinite abyss, fiery as the of a
burning city; beneath us, at an distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; round it were fiery tracks on which vast spiders,
after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific shapes of animals sprung corruption;& the
air was full of them,& seem'd composed of these are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now asked my companion which was my
lot? He said: 'Between the black & spiders' but now, from between
the & white spiders, a cloud and fire burst and rolled thro' the
deep. all beneath, so that 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 east between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a cataract of blood mixed with fire, and not many stones' throw 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
slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, from the sea fled away in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the of Leviathan; his forehead was
divided streaks of green & purple like those on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills just above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the fury
of a spiritual existence. My friend the climb'd up from his station
into the I remain'd alone;& then this appearance was no more, but I
found myself sitting on a pleasant bank beside a river by
hearing a harper, who to the harp;& his theme was: 'The man who never
alters his opinion is standing 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 metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found on a bank by
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we have seen my lot, shall I
shew you yours? ' He at my proposal; but I by force suddenly caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly the night, till we were elevated
above the shadow; then I flung myself with him directly 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 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. ' we saw the stable 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 me; soon 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 sometimes grew numerous; and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, first with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off first one limb and then another, the
body was a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they devour'd too; and & there I saw one savourily
picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench terribly us
both, we into the mill,& in my hand brought the skeleton of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the said: 'Thy
phantasy has imposed upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost time to converse you
whose are only analytics. ' Opposition is true friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always found that angels the vanity to speak of
themselves as the only wise; they do with a confident insolence
sprouting from reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that what he writes
is new; Tho' it is only the contents or index of already books.
A man carried a monkey about for a shew,& because he was a little
than the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd himself as much than seven
men. It is so with He shews the folly of churches & exposes
hypocrites, till he imagines that all religious,& the single one
on earth ever broke 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 the reason. He conversed with angels who are all
religious & conversed not with who all hate religion. For he was
incapable thro' his conceited notions. Swedenborg writings are a
recapitulation of all superficial opinions, and an of the more
but not further. Have now another plain fact. Any man of
mechanical may, from the writings of Paracelus or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of value with Swedenborg's, and from
those of Dante or Shakespear an infinite number. But he has done
this, let him not say that he knows better his master, for he only
holds a in sunshine.