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(plates 17-20)
An angel came to me and said: 'O pitiable young man! O horrible! O
state! Consider the hot burning dungeon thou art preparing 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 your lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me a stable & thro' a church & down into the
vault. At the end of which was a mill: thro' the mill we went, and
came to a down the winding 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 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 appear when the darkness
passes away. ' So I with him, sitting 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 infinite abyss, fiery as the of a
burning city; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, but
shinning; round it were fiery on which revolv'd vast spiders,
after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most shapes of animals sprung from corruption;& the
air was full of them,& seem'd composed of them: are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now my companion which was my eternal
lot? He said: 'Between the black & white spiders' but now, between
the black & white spiders, a and fire burst and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so that the nether deep black as a
sea,& with a terrible noise; beneath us was nothing now to be seen
but a black tempest, till east between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a of blood mixed with fire, and not many stones' throw from us
and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstrous serpent; at last, to
the east, distant about three degrees, appear'd a fiery above the
waves; slowly it reared like a ridge of rocks, till we discover'd
two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea 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 above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep with beams of blood, towards us with all the fury
of a spiritual existence. My friend the angel climb'd up his station
into the mill; I remain'd alone;& this appearance was no more, but I
found myself sitting on a pleasant bank a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who to the harp;& his theme was: 'The man who never
alters his opinion is like standing water,& breeds of the mind. '
But I and sought for the mill,& there I found 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 myself on a bank by
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we have seen my lot, shall I
shew you yours? ' He at my proposal; but I by force suddenly caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly thro' the night, till we were
above the earth's shadow; then I flung myself with him directly the
body of the sun; here I clothed myself in white & in my hand
volumes, sunk from the glorious clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to Saturn: here I to rest,& then leap'd into
the void between & fixed stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is your lot, in
space, if space it may be call'd. ' Soon we saw the stable and the
church,& I him to the altar and open'd the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, into which I descended, driving the angel me; soon we saw
seven 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 their
however, I saw that sometimes grew numerous; and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, coupled with,&
then devour'd, by plucking off first one and then another, till the
body was left a helpless this, after grinning & kissing 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 the mill,& in my hand brought the skeleton of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said:
phantasy has imposed upon me,& oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost time to with you
whose works are analytics. ' Opposition is true friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always found that have the vanity to speak of
themselves as the only this they do with a confident insolence
sprouting systematic reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that what he writes
is new; Tho' it is only the contents or of already publish'd books.
A man carried a monkey for a shew,& because he was a little wiser
than the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd himself as much wiser than
men. It is so with Swedenborg: He the folly of churches & exposes
hypocrites, till he imagines that all religious,& the single one
on earth that ever broke a net. Now 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 writings are a
of all superficial opinions, and an analysis of the more
sublime but not further. now another plain fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the writings of or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand of equal value with Swedenborg's, and from
those of Dante or Shakespear an number. But when he has done
this, let him not say that he better than his master, for he only
holds a in sunshine.