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(plates 17-20)
An angel came to me and said: 'O foolish young man! O horrible! O
state! Consider 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
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 winding cavern we groped our tedious way, a
boundless as a nether sky appear'd beneath us.& we held by the roots
of trees and over this immensity; but I said: 'If you please we will
commit ourselves to void, and see whether providence is here also: if
you not, I will? ' 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, in a twisted root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, hung with the head downward into
the deep. By degrees we beheld the abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
burning city; beneath us, at an distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; round it were fiery on which revolv'd vast spiders,
crawling after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the
deep, in the most terrific shapes of animals sprung 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 which was my eternal
lot? He said: 'Between the black & white but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a cloud and burst and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so that the nether deep grew as a
sea,& rolled with a terrible noise; us was nothing now to be seen
but a black tempest, till looking between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a cataract of blood mixed with fire, and not stones' throw from us
appear'd and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstrous at last, to
the east, distant three degrees, appear'd a fiery crest above the
slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea fled in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the head of Leviathan; his was
divided into streaks of green & purple like on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his & red gills hung just above the raging foam, tinging
the deep with beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the fury
of a existence. My friend the angel climb'd up from his station
into the mill; I remain'd then this appearance was no more, but I
myself sitting on a pleasant bank beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who sung to the harp;& his theme was: man who never
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 me how I escaped? I answer'd: 'All that 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, we were elevated
the earth's shadow; 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 from the glorious clime, and all the
planets we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& then leap'd into
the void between & 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 and open'd the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, into I descended, driving the angel before me; soon we saw
seven houses of one we enter'd; in it were a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, by the middle, grinning and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their
however, I saw that they sometimes grew and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, first with,&
devour'd, by plucking 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 hand brought the of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the said: 'Thy
has imposed upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but time to converse with you
whose works are analytics. ' Opposition is true friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always found that angels have the vanity to of
themselves as the only wise; this they do with a confident
sprouting from systematic reasoning, boasts that what he writes
is new; Tho' it is only the contents or of already publish'd books.
A man carried a about for a shew,& because he was a little wiser
than the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd as much wiser than seven
men. It is so with Swedenborg: He shews the folly of churches &
hypocrites, till he imagines that all religious,& himself the one
on that 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 the reason. He conversed with angels who are all
& conversed not with devils who all hate religion. For he was
incapable thro' his conceited notions. Thus Swedenborg are a
recapitulation of all opinions, and an analysis of the more
but not further. Have now another plain fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the writings of Paracelus or Behmen,
produce ten thousand of equal value with Swedenborg's, and from
those of Dante or an infinite number. But when he has done
this, let him not say that he knows than his master, for he only
a candle in sunshine.