The Roommate From Hell

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;

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

410: he only takes portions of existence and fancies that the whole.

427: thro’ the mill we went, and came to a cave, down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way till a void boundless as a nether sky appear’d beneath us,