My Delirium on Chimbarazo (Revised Version)

We find our friend, "El Liberator," writing about a vision he had on Chimbarazo, the tallest mountain in Ecuador.  While experiencing his delirium in his dream, Bolivar sees multiple Gods: the God of Water, the God of Columbia, the God of Iris, Time, and Infinity etc.  The strange thing about this vision was that, Bolivar, a Catholic, speaks nothing about the Christian God.  However the weirdest God that confronts Bolivar is Time.  After expressing that he has surpassed every man financially, Bolivar comes to the conclusion that he may go to hell ("infernal prisons burning beneath [his] footsteps").  He wonders why a man like him just does not disappear in thin air because of his status. He also believes that he understands time and space.  Bolivar comes to these realizations and that heaven exists. Time instructs Bolivar to tell others of this realization about the reality of heaven.  Bolivar wakes up from his delirium that he has experienced.  I feel that this illusion was provoked by his feelings about Ecuador's independence.  Seeing how this letter was written after The Jamaica Letter, Bolivar probably wrote this letter in exile.  He most likely wrote this letter as a delirious man because of his solitude.  His radicals theories on these disorganized and violent governments throughout Latin America sent him into his own delirium.