The Roommate From Hell

397: In the third chamber was an Eagle with wings and feathers of air; he caused the inside of the cave to be infinite;

398: around were numbers of Eagle like men, who built palaces in the immense cliffs.

399: In the fourth chamber were Lions of flaming fire raging around & melting the metals into living fluids.

400: In the fifth chamber were Unnam’d forms, which cast the metals into the expanse.

401: There they were reciev’d by Men who occupied the sixth chamber,

402: and took the forms of books & were arranged in libraries.

403: The Giants who formed this world into its sensual existence and now seem to live in it in chains,

404: are in truth, the causes of its life & the sources of all activity;

405: but the chains are, the cunning of weak and tame minds, which have power to resist energy,

406: according to the proverb, the weak in courage is strong in cunning.

407: Thus one portion of being, is the Prolific, the other, the Devouring:

408: to the devourer it seems as if the producer was in his chains, but it is not so;