Plates 21-22 by Ulver
[plates 21-22]
I have always found that angels have the vanity to
speak of themselves as the only wise;
this they do with a confident insolence sprouting from
systematic reasoning,
Swedenborg boasts that what he writes is new;
Tho' it is only the contents or index of already
publish'd books.
A man carried a monkey about for a shew, & because he
was a little wiser than the monkey,
grew vain, and conciev'd himself as much wiser
than seven men.
It is so with Swedenborg:
He shews the folly of churches & exposes hypocrites,
till he imagines that all religious,
& himself the single one on earth
that ever broke a net.
Now hear a plain fact:
Swedenborg has not written one net truth,
now hear another:
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