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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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former existence have been a blood-stained
conqueror, and therefore you suffer repeatedly the
terrors of death without being able to die. Now
be religious inwardly and outwardly.”

“You mean that I should become a Catholic?”

“Yes.”

“Swedenborg says it is forbidden to quit the
religion of one’s fathers, for everyone belongs to
the spiritual territory on which he is born.”

“The Catholic religion receives graciously
everyone who seeks it.”

“I will be content with a lower position. In
case of need I can find a place among the Jews
and Mohammedans, who are also admitted to
heaven. I am modest.”

“Grace is offered you, but you prefer the mess
of pottage to the right of the first-born.”

“The right of the first-born for the Son of a
Servant!
[1] Too much! Too much!”

*



Restored to self-respect by Swedenborg, I regard
myself once more as Job, the righteous and
sinless man, whom the Eternal tries in order
to show the wicked the example of a righteous
man enduring unjust sufferings.

My pious vanity is tickled by the idea. I am

[1] The title of Strindberg’s first autobiography.

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