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XIII
THE DELIVERER
When Balzac introduced me to my noble countryman,
“The Buddha of the North,” by means
of his book Séraphita, he showed me the
evangelistic side of the Prophet. Now it is the Law
which encounters, crushes, and releases.
A single word suffices to illuminate my soul,
and to scatter my doubts and vain fancies
regarding supposed enemies, electricians, black
magic, etc., and this single word is “Devastatio.” [1]
All my sufferings I find described by
Swedenborg—the feelings of suffocation (angina
pectoris), constrictions of the chest, palpitations,
the sensation which I called the “electric
girdle”—all exactly correspond, and these
phenomena, taken together, constitute the spiritual
catharsis (purification) which was already
known to St. Paul, “Whom,” he says speaking
of someone, “I have determined to hand over
[1] According to Swedenborg the name of a stage in the
religious life.
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