In you, O cities of Africa your children will be seen quartered in their own houses by most cruel and rapacious beasts of your own country.
( Of Asses that are beaten.)
[Footnote 48: Compare No. 845.] O Nature! Wherefore art thou so partial; being to some of thy children a tender and benign mother, and to others a most cruel and pitiless stepmother? I see children of thine given up to slavery to others, without any sort of advantage, and instead of remuneration for the good they do, they are paid with the severest suffering, and spend their whole life in benefitting those who ill treat them.
[Of Men who sleep on boards of Trees.]
Men shall sleep, and eat, and dwell among trees, in the forests and open country.
[Of Dreaming.]
Men will seem to see new destructions in the sky. The flames that fall from it will seem to rise in it and to fly from it with terror. They will hear every kind of animals speak in human language. They will instantaneously run in person in various parts of the world, without motion. They will see the greatest splendour in the midst of darkness. O! marvel of the human race! What madness has led you thus! You will speak with animals of every species and they with you in human speech. You will see yourself fall from great heights without any harm and torrents will accompany you, and will mingle with their rapid course.
[Of Christians.]
Many who hold the faith of the Son only build temples in the name of the Mother.
[Of Food which has been alive.]