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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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admiration, as I heard this heavenly giant of
the last century speak by the mouth of such a
genial French interpreter.

I read now with religious attention, and
found on page 16 the 29th of March given as
the day on which Swedenborg died. I stopped,
considered, and consulted the almanac; it was
exactly the 29th of March, and also Palm Sunday.
It was then that Swedenborg entered into
my life, in which he was to play such a great
part as judge and master, and on the anniversary
of his death he brought me the palm, whether
of the victor or the martyr—who could say?

Séraphita became my gospel, and caused me
to enter into such a close connection with the
other world, that I felt sick of life, and an
irresistible homesickness for heaven seized me.
Doubtless, I was being prepared for a higher
existence. I despised the earth, the impure
earth, its inhabitants and their doings. I felt
like a perfectly righteous man, whom the Eternal
was testing, and whom the purgatory of this
world would soon make fit for deliverance. The
courage produced by the consciousness of my
confidential relation to the powers was always
increased, when I saw my scientific experiments
crowned with success. According to my

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