[plate 15]
I was in a printing house in hell & saw the method in which
knowledge is

transmitted from generation to generation. In the first chamber
was a
dragon-man, clearing away the rubbish from a cave's mouth;

within, a
number of dragons were hollowing the cave. In the second chamber
was a

viper folding round the rock & the cave, and others were
adorning it
with gold, silver and precious stones. In the third chamber was

an eagle
with wings and feathers of air: he caused the inside of the cave
to be

infinite; around were numbers of eagle-like men, who built
palaces in the
immense cliffs. In the fourth chamber were lions of flaming

fire, raging
around & melting the metals into living fluids. In the fifth
chamber were

unnam'd forms, which cast the metals into the expanse. There
they receiv'd
by men who occupied the sixth chamber, and took the forms of

book & were
arranged in libraries.


[plates 16-17]
The giants who formed this world
into its sensual existence and now seem to live in it in chains,

are in
truth the causes of its life & the sources of all activity; but
the chains

are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have power to
resist energy,
according to the proverb, the weak in courage is strong in

cunning. Thus
one portion of beings is the prolific, the other the devouring:
to the

devourer it seems as if the producer was in his chains: but it
is no so,
he only takes portions of existence and fancies that the whole.

But the
prolific would cease to be prolific unless the devourer, as a
sea received

the excess of his delights. Some will say: 'Is not God alone the
prolific?
' I answer: 'God only acts & is, in existing beings or men'.

These two
classes of men are always upon earth,& they should be enemies:
whoever

tries to reconcile them seeks to destroy existence. Religion is
an
endeavour to reconcile the two. Note: Jesus Christ did not wish

to unite,
but to seperate them, as in the parable of sheep and goats!& He
says: 'I

came not to send peace, but a sword. ' Messiah or Satan or
tempter was
formerly thought to be one of the antediluvians who are our

energies.