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[plates 17-20]
an angel came to me and said: &#39;o pitiable foolish young man! o horrible! o
dreadful state! consider the hot burning dungeon thou art preparing for
thyself to all eternity, to which thou art going in such career. &#39;i said:
&#39;perhaps you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate together upon it and see whether your lot or mine is most
desirable. &#39; so he took me thro&#39; a stable & thro&#39; a church & down into the
church vault. at the end of which was a mill: thro&#39; the mill we went, and
came to a cave: down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a
void boundless as a nether sky appear&#39;d beneath we held by the roots
of trees and hung over this immensity; but i said: &#39;if you please we will
commit ourselves to this void, and see whether providence is here also: if
you will not, i will? &#39; but he answered: &#39;do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, behold thy lot which will soon appear when the darkness
passes away. &#39; so i remain&#39;d with him, sitting in a twisted root of an
oak; 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 smoke of a
burning city; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; round it were fiery tracks on which revolv&#39;d vast spiders,
crawling after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific shapes of animals sprung from corruption;& the
air was full of them,& seem&#39;d composed of them: these are devils, and are
called powers of the air. i now asked my companion which was my eternal
lot? he said: &#39;between the black & white spiders&#39; but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a cloud and fire burst and rolled thro&#39; the
deep. black&#39;ning all beneath, so that the nether deep grew black as a
sea,& rolled with a terrible noise; beneath us was nothing now to be seen
but a black tempest, till looking east between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a cataract of blood mixed with fire, and not many stones&#39; throw from us
appear&#39;d and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstrous serpent; at last, to
the east, distant about three degrees, appear&#39;d a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover&#39;d
two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea fled away in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the head of leviathan; his forehead was
divided into streaks of green & purple like those on a tyger&#39;s forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung just above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep with beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the fury
of a spiritual existence. my friend the angel climb&#39;d up from his station
into the mill; i remain&#39;d alone;& then this appearance was no more, but i
found myself sitting on a pleasant bank beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who sung to the harp;& his theme was: &#39;the man who never
alters his opinion is like standing water,& breeds reptiles of the mind. &#39;
but i apose and sought for the mill,& there i found my angel, who,
surprised asked me how i escaped? i answer&#39;d: &#39;all that we saw was owing
to your metaphysics; for when you ran away, i found myself on a bank by
moonlight hearing a harper. but now we have seen my eternal lot, shall i
shew you yours? &#39; he lugh&#39;d at my proposal; but i by force suddenly caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly thro&#39; the night, till we were elevated
above the earth&#39;s shadow; then i flung myself with him directly into the
body of the sun; here i clothed myself in white & taking in my hand
swedenborg&#39;s volumes, sunk from the glorious clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to saturn: here i staid to rest,& then leap&#39;d into
the void between saturn & fixed stars. &#39;here&#39;, said i, &#39;is your lot, in
this space, if space it may be call&#39;d. &#39; soon we saw the stable and the
church,& i took him to the altar and open&#39;d the bible, and lo! it was a
deep pit, into which i descended, driving the angel before me; soon we saw
seven houses of brick; one we enter&#39;d; in it were a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, chain&#39;d by the middle, grinning and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their chains:
however, i saw that they sometimes grew numerous; and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, first coupled with,&
then devour&#39;d, by plucking off first one limb and then another, till the
body was left a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they devour&#39;d too; and here & there i saw one savourily
picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench terribly annoy&#39;d us
both, we went into the mill,& in my hand brought the skeleton of a body,
which in the mill was aristotele&#39;s analitycs. so the angel said: &#39;thy
phantasy has imposed upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. &#39;i answered:
&#39;we impose on one another, & it is but lost time to converse with you
whose works are only analytics. &#39; opposition is true friendship.

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