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 thou art going in career. 'I said:
'Perhaps you be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate together upon it and see 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: the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a
void boundless as a nether sky appear'd us.& we held by the roots
of and hung 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 will? ' But he 'Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, behold thy lot which will soon appear when the
passes away. ' So I remain'd with him, sitting in a root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung with the downward 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 rather swum, in the
deep, in the terrific shapes of animals sprung 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: the black & white spiders' but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a cloud and burst and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so the nether deep grew black 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 about three degrees, appear'd a fiery crest the
waves; slowly it reared a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, 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 & purple those on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung just 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 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 by moonlight
a harper, who sung to the harp;& his theme was: 'The man who never
alters his opinion is like water,& breeds reptiles of the mind. '
But I apose and sought for the mill,& there I my angel, who,
surprised asked me how I 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 ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by force suddenly caught
him in my arms,& westerly thro' the night, till we were elevated
above the earth's shadow; then I flung myself with him into the
body of the sun; here I clothed myself in white & taking in my
Swedenborg's volumes, sunk from the glorious clime, and all the
planets we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& then leap'd into
the void between Saturn & fixed stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is 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, which I descended, driving the angel before me; soon we saw
seven houses of brick; one we in it were a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, by the middle, grinning and
snatching at one another, but by the shortness of their chains:
however, I saw that they sometimes grew numerous; and then the were
by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, first coupled with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off first one limb and another, till the
body was left a helpless 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 terribly annoy'd us
both, we went the mill,& in my hand brought the skeleton of a body,
in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said: 'Thy
phantasy has imposed upon me,& thou 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 that angels have the to speak of
themselves as the only wise; this they do with a confident
sprouting from systematic reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that what he
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 wiser
than the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd himself as much wiser seven
men. It is so with Swedenborg: He shews the folly of & exposes
hypocrites, till he imagines that all religious,& the single one
on earth that ever broke a net. Now hear a fact: Swedenborg has not
written one net truth, now hear he has written all the old
falsehoods. And now hear the reason. He with angels who are all
religious & not with devils who all hate religion. For he was
incapable thro' his notions. Thus Swedenborg writings are a
recapitulation of all superficial opinions, and an analysis of the
sublime but not further. now another plain fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the writings of or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of value with Swedenborg's, and from
those of Dante or Shakespear an infinite number. But when he has
this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he
a candle in sunshine.