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writings Swedenborg firmly asserted their truth. 'In one hundred

years,' Monsieur Ferelius quotes him as saying, 'my doctrine will



guide the CHURCH.' He predicted the day and hour of his death. On that

day, Sunday, March 29, 1772, hearing the clock strike, he asked what



time it was. 'Five o'clock' was the answer. 'It is well,' he answered;

'thank you, God bless you.' Ten minutes later he tranquilly departed,



breathing a gentle sigh. Simplicity, moderation, and solitude were the

features of his life. When he had finished writing any of his books he



sailed either for London or for Holland, where he published them, and

never spoke of them again. He published in this way twenty-seven



different treatises, all written, he said, from the dictation of

Angels. Be it true or false, few men have been strong enough to endure



the flames of oral illumination.

"There they all are," said Monsieur Becker, pointing to a second shelf



on which were some sixty volumes. "The treatises on which the Divine

Spirit casts its most vivid gleams are seven in number, namely:



'Heaven and Hell'; 'Angelic Wisdom concerning the Divine Love and the

Divine Wisdom'; 'Angelic Wisdom concerning the Divine Providence';



'The Apocalypse Revealed'; 'Conjugial Love and its Chaste Delights';

'The True Christian Religion'; and 'An Exposition of the Internal



Sense.' Swedenborg's explanation of the Apocalypse begins with these

words," said Monsieur Becker, taking down and opening the volume



nearest to him: "'Herein I have written nothing of mine own; I speak

as I am bidden by the Lord, who said, through the same angel, to John:



"Thou shalt not seal the sayings of this Prophecy."' (Revelation xxii.

10.)



"My dear Monsieur Wilfrid," said the old man, looking at his guest, "I

often tremble in every limb as I read, during the long winter evenings



the awe-inspiring works in which this man declares with perfect

artlessness the wonders that are revealed to him. 'I have seen,' he



says, 'Heaven and the Angels. The spiritual man sees his spiritual

fellows far better than the terrestrial man sees the men of earth. In



describing the wonders of heaven and beneath the heavens I obey the

Lord's command. Others have the right to believe me or not as they



choose. I cannot put them into the state in which God has put me; it

is not in my power to enable them to converse with Angels, nor to work



miracles within their understanding; they alone can be the instrument

of their rise to angelicintercourse. It is now twenty-eight years



since I have lived in the Spiritual world with angels, and on earth

with men; for it pleased God to open the eyes of my Spirit as he did



that of Paul, and of Daniel and Elisha.'

"And yet," continued the pastor, thoughtfully, "certain persons have



had visions of the spiritual world through the complete detachment

which somnambulism produces between their external form and their



inner being. 'In this state,' says Swedenborg in his treatise on

Angelic Wisdom (No. 257) 'Man may rise into the region of celestial



light because, his corporeal senses being abolished, the influence of

heaven acts without hindrance on his inner man.' Many persons who do



not doubt that Swedenborg received celestial revelations think that

his writings are not all the result of divineinspiration. Others



insist on absolute adherence to him; while admitting his many

obscurities, they believe that the imperfection of earthly language



prevented the prophet from clearly revealing those spiritual visions

whose clouds disperse to the eyes of those whom faith regenerates;



for, to use the words of his greatest disciple, 'Flesh is but an




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