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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 thou art going in such career. 'I said:
'Perhaps you will be to shew me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate together upon it and see whether lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a stable & thro' a church & into the
church vault. At the end of which was a mill: 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 trees and hung over immensity; but I said: 'If you please we will
commit to this void, and see whether 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
passes away. ' So I remain'd with him, sitting in a root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung 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; it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders,
after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific shapes of animals sprung from the
air was full of them,& composed of them: these are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now asked my companion was my eternal
lot? He 'Between the black & white spiders' but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a cloud and fire burst and thro' the
deep. all beneath, so that the nether deep grew black as a
sea,& rolled with a 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 fold of a monstrous serpent; at last, to
the east, about three degrees, appear'd a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it 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 & like those on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his & red gills hung just above the raging 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 remain'd alone;& then 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 standing water,& breeds of the mind. '
But I apose and sought for the mill,& I found my angel, who,
surprised asked me how I escaped? I 'All that we saw was owing
to metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found myself on a bank by
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we have my eternal lot, shall I
shew you ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by force suddenly caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly the night, till 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 & in my hand
Swedenborg's volumes, sunk from the clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& leap'd into
the void between Saturn & stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is your lot, in
this space, if 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 I descended, driving the angel before me; soon we saw
seven of brick; one we enter'd; in it were a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, by the middle, grinning and
at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their chains:
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 off first one limb and then another, till the
body was left a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & it with
seeming fondness, they devour'd and here & there I saw one savourily
picking the off of his own tail; as the stench terribly annoy'd us
both, we into 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,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost time to converse you
whose works are only analytics. ' is true friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always that angels have the vanity to speak of
themselves as the only wise; this they do with a insolence
sprouting systematic reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that what he writes
is new; it is only the contents or index 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 that all religious,& himself the single one
on that ever broke a net. Now hear a plain fact: Swedenborg has not
written one net truth, now hear another: he has all the old
falsehoods. And now hear the reason. He with angels who are all
religious & conversed not devils who all hate religion. For he was
incapable thro' his conceited notions. Swedenborg writings are a
recapitulation of all superficial opinions, and an analysis of the
sublime but not further. Have now plain fact. Any man of
mechanical talents may, from the writings of or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborg's, and
those of Dante or an infinite number. But when he has done
this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he
holds a in sunshine.