Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 4

(plates 17-20)
An angel came to me and said: 'O 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
you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate together upon it and see whether lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a stable & thro' a church & down the
church vault. At the end of which was a mill: the mill we went, and
came to a cave: down the cavern we groped our tedious way, till a
void boundless as a sky appear'd beneath us.& we held by the roots
of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: 'If you we will
ourselves to this void, and see whether providence is here also: if
you will not, I will? ' But he 'Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, behold thy lot which will soon appear when the
away. ' So I remain'd with him, sitting in a twisted root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung with the downward into
the deep. By degrees we the infinite abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
burning beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders,
crawling after prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific shapes of animals from corruption;& the
air was full of them,& seem'd of them: these are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now asked my companion was my eternal
lot? He said: 'Between the black & spiders' but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a 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; beneath us was now to be seen
but a black tempest, till looking between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a cataract of blood 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, about three degrees, appear'd a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it reared like a ridge of rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, 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 & like those on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills just above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep with beams of blood, advancing towards us all the fury
of a spiritual existence. My friend the angel climb'd up his station
into the mill; I remain'd alone;& then appearance was no more, but I
found myself sitting on a bank beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who sung to the harp;& his theme was: 'The man who
alters his opinion is like standing water,& breeds of the mind. '
But I apose and sought for the mill,& there I 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
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we have seen my eternal lot, I
shew you yours? ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by suddenly caught
him in my arms,& westerly thro' the night, till we were elevated
above the earth's 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, 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 him to the altar and open'd the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, into I descended, driving the angel before me; soon we saw
houses of brick; one we enter'd; 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 chains:
however, I saw that they sometimes grew and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and a grinning aspect, first coupled with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off first one limb and then another, the
body was left a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & it with
seeming fondness, they devour'd and here & there I saw one savourily
the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench terribly annoy'd 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 angel said:
has imposed upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost to converse with you
whose works are only analytics. ' Opposition is friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always found angels have the vanity to speak of
themselves as the only wise; this they do a confident insolence
from systematic reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that what he writes
is new; it is only the contents or index of already publish'd 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 Swedenborg: He shews the folly of churches &
hypocrites, till he imagines 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 another: he has written all the old
falsehoods. And now hear the reason. He with angels who are all
religious & conversed not devils who all hate religion. For he was
incapable his conceited notions. Thus Swedenborg writings are a
recapitulation of all superficial opinions, and an of the more
sublime but not further. Have now another fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the of Paracelus or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of equal value Swedenborg's, and from
those of Dante or Shakespear an number. But when he has done
this, let him not say he knows better than his master, for he only
holds a in sunshine.