[plate 2]
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Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air;
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hungry clouds swag on the deep, once meek, and in a perilous path,
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the just man kept his course along the vale of death.
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Roses are planted where thorns grow, and on the barren heath
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sing the honey bees, then the perilous path was planted:
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and a riverland a spring on every cliff and tomb:
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and on the bleached bones red clay brought forth.
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Till the villain left the paths of ease, to walk in perilous paths,
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and drive the just man into barren climes.
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Now the sneaking serpent walks in mild humility,
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and the just man rages in the wilds where lions roam.
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Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air;
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hungry clouds swag on the deep.
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[plate 3]
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As a new heaven is begun,
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and it is now thirty-three years since its advent:
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the eternal hell revives.
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And lo! Swedenborg is the angel sitting at the tomb:
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his writings are the linen clothes folded up.
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Now is the dominion of Edom,& the return of Adam into Paradise;
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see Isaiah XXXIV & XXXV chap: without contraries is no progression.
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Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy,
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love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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From these contraries spring what the religious call good & evil.
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Good is the passive that obeys reason.
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Evil is the active springing from energy.
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Good is heaven, evil is hell
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The Argument
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| Ulver |
