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 art going in such 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 church & down the
church vault. At the end of which was a mill: thro' the we went, and
came to a cave: the winding cavern we groped 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 immensity; but I said: 'If you we will
commit ourselves to this void, and see 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 soon appear when the darkness
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 head into
the deep. By we beheld the infinite abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
city; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; 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 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 was my eternal
lot? He said: 'Between the black & white spiders' but now, between
the black & spiders, a cloud and fire burst and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so that the nether deep black as a
sea,& rolled a terrible noise; beneath 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 throw from us
appear'd and sunk again the scaly fold of a serpent; at last, to
the east, distant about three degrees, a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, we discover'd
two globes of fire, from which the sea fled away in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the head of his forehead was
divided into of green & purple like those on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung just above the foam, tinging
the black deep with beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the
of a spiritual existence. My the angel climb'd up from his station
into the mill; I alone;& then this appearance was no more, but I
found myself sitting on a pleasant beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who sung to the 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,& there I 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 myself on a by
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we have my eternal lot, shall I
shew you yours? ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by suddenly caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly thro' the night, till we elevated
above the earth's shadow; I flung myself with him directly into the
of the sun; here I clothed myself in white & taking in my hand
Swedenborg's volumes, sunk from the clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to here I staid to rest,& then leap'd into
the between Saturn & fixed 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 took him to the altar and 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, 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 aspect, first coupled with,&
then devour'd, by off first one limb and then another, till the
body was left a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & it with
seeming fondness, they too; and here & there I saw one savourily
the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench terribly annoy'd us
both, we went into the mill,& in my brought the skeleton of a body,
which in the was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said: 'Thy
has imposed upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost time to converse you
works are only analytics. ' Opposition is true friendship.

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I have always that angels have the vanity to speak of
themselves as the only wise; this they do with a confident
sprouting from systematic reasoning, Swedenborg that what he writes
is Tho' it is only the contents or index of already publish'd books.
A man carried a monkey about for a shew,& he was a little wiser
than the monkey, vain, and conciev'd himself as much wiser than seven
men. It is so with Swedenborg: He shews the folly of churches &
hypocrites, till he that all religious,& himself the single one
on earth that ever broke a net. Now hear a plain Swedenborg has not
written one net truth, now hear another: he has 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
incapable thro' his conceited notions. Thus Swedenborg are a
recapitulation of all superficial opinions, and an analysis of the
sublime but not further. Have now another fact. Any man of
talents may, from the writings of Paracelus or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborg's, and
those of Dante or Shakespear an infinite number. But when he has
this, let him not say he knows better than his master, for he only
a candle in sunshine.