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Tables of testimony in his hand, his face shone, so that he put a veil



upon it when he spake with the people, lest any of them die." The

Transfiguration of Jesus Christ likewise revealed the light



surrounding the Messengers from on high and the ineffable joys of the

Angels who are forever imbued with it. "His face," says Saint Matthew



(xvii. 1-5), "did shine as the sun and his raiment was white as the

light--and a bright cloud overshadowed them."'



"When a planet contains only those beings who reject the Lord, when

his word is ignored, then the Angelic Spirits are gathered together by



the four winds, and God sends forth an Exterminating Angel to change

the face of the refractory earth, which in the immensity of this



universe is to Him what an unfruitful seed is to Nature. Approaching

the globe, this Exterminating Angel, borne by a comet, causes the



planet to turn upon its axis, and the lands lately covered by the seas

reappear, adorned in freshness and obedient to the laws proclaimed in



Genesis; the Word of God is once more powerful on this new earth,

which everywhere exhibits the effects of terrestrial waters and



celestial flames. The light brought by the Angel from On High, causes

the sun to pale. 'Then,' says Isaiah, (xix. 20) 'men will hide in the



clefts of the rock and roll themselves in the dust of the earth.'

'They will cry to the mountains' (Revelation), 'Fall on us! and to the



seas, Swallow us up! Hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the

throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb!' The Lamb is the great figure



and hope of the Angels misjudged and persecuted here below. Christ

himself has said, 'Blessed are those who mourn! Blessed are the



simple-hearted! Blessed are they that love!'--All Swedenborg is there!

Suffer, Believe, Love. To love truly must we not suffer? must we not



believe? Love begets Strength, Strength bestows Wisdom, thence

Intelligence; for Strength and Wisdom demand Will. To be intelligent,



is not that to Know, to Wish, and to Will,--the three attributes of

the Angelic Spirit? 'If the universe has a meaning,' Monsieur Saint-



Martin said to me when I met him during a journey which he made in

Sweden, 'surely this is the one most worthy of God.'



"But, Monsieur," continued the pastor after a thoughtful pause, "of

what avail to you are these shreds of thoughts taken here and there



from the vast extent of a work of which no true idea can be given

except by comparing it to a river of light, to billows of flame? When



a man plunges into it he is carried away as by an awful current.

Dante's poem seems but a speck to the reader submerged in the almost



Biblical verses with which Swedenborg renders palpable the Celestial

Worlds, as Beethoven built his palaces of harmony with thousands of



notes, as architects have reared cathedrals with millions of stones.

We roll in soundless depths, where our minds will not always sustain



us. Ah, surely a great and powerful intellect is needed to bring us

back, safe and sound, to our own social beliefs.



"Swedenborg," resumed the pastor, "was particularly attached to the

Baron de Seraphitz, whose name, according to an old Swedish custom,



had taken from time immemorial the Latin termination of 'us.' The

baron was an ardentdisciple of the Swedish prophet, who had opened



the eyes of his Inner-Man and brought him to a life in conformity with

the decrees from On-High. He sought for an Angelic Spirit among women;



Swedenborg found her for him in a vision. His bride was the daughter

of a London shoemaker, in whom, said Swedenborg, the life of Heaven



shone, she having passed through all anterior trials. After the death,

that is, the transformation of the prophet, the baron came to Jarvis



to accomplish his celestial nuptials with the observances of Prayer.

As for me, who am not a Seer, I have only known the terrestrial works



of this couple. Their lives were those of saints whose virtues are the

glory of the Roman Church. They ameliorated the condition of our



people; they supplied them all with means in return for work,--little,

perhaps, but enough for all their wants. Those who lived with them in



constantintercourse never saw them show a sign of anger or




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