Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 4

(plates 17-20)
An came to me and said: '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 such career. 'I
'Perhaps you will be willing to me my eternal lot & we will
together upon it and see whether your lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he me thro' a stable & 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 cavern we groped our tedious way, till a
void boundless as a nether sky appear'd us.& we held by the roots
of trees and hung this immensity; but I said: 'If you please we will
commit ourselves to this void, and see whether providence is here if
you will not, I ' 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 with him, sitting in a twisted of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung with the head downward
the deep. By degrees we beheld the infinite abyss, fiery as the of a
burning beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd spiders,
crawling their prey, which flew, or rather 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 & spiders' but now, from between
the & white spiders, a cloud and fire burst and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so that the deep grew black as a
sea,& rolled with a noise; beneath us was nothing now to be seen
but a tempest, till looking east between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a of blood 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
waves; slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, 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 those on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung above the raging foam, tinging
the black with beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the fury
of a spiritual existence. My friend the angel climb'd up his station
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 is like 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
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we have seen my lot, shall I
shew you yours? ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by force caught
him in my arms,& flew 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
volumes, sunk from the glorious clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& then into
the void between Saturn & stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is your lot, in
this space, if 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 enter'd; in it a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of species, chain'd by the middle, grinning and
at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their chains:
however, I saw that they grew numerous; and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, coupled with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off first one and then another, till the
body was left a helpless this, after grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they devour'd too; and here & there I saw one
the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench terribly annoy'd us
both, we went into the mill,& in my hand the skeleton of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel 'Thy
phantasy has upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost to converse with you
whose are only analytics. ' Opposition is true friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always found that angels have the to speak of
as the only wise; this they do with a confident insolence
sprouting from systematic reasoning, 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,& he was a little wiser
the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd himself as much wiser than seven
men. It is so with Swedenborg: He the folly of churches & exposes
hypocrites, he imagines that all religious,& himself 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 devils who all religion. For he was
incapable thro' his conceited notions. Thus writings are a
recapitulation of all superficial opinions, and an of the more
sublime but not further. now another plain fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the writings of or Jacob Behmen,
ten thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborg's, and from
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
a candle in sunshine.