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to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that
the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord
Jesus,” and “Among whom are Hymenæus and
Alexander, whom I have delivered over to Satan,
that they may be taught not to blaspheme.”
When I read the visions of Swedenborg
belonging to the year 1744, the year preceding
his establishment of relations with the spiritual
world, I discover that the Prophet has endured
the same nightly tortures as I have, and what
astonishes me still more is the complete identity
of the symptoms, which leave me no longer room
for doubting the real nature of my illness. In
the Arcana Cœlestia, the mysterious occurrences
of the last two years are explained with such
convincing exactness, that I, a child of the
renowned nineteenth century, am firmly convinced
that there is a hell—a hell, however, on earth,
and that I have just come out of it.
Swedenborg explains to me the reason of my
detention in the Hospital St. Louis thus:
“Alchemists are attacked by leprosy and
scratch the scurf off like fish-scales. It is an
incurable skin disease.” The apparition of the
chimney sweep which my daughter saw in
Austria is also explained: “Among the spirits,
there is a kind called ‘chimney sweeps,’ because
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