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When Swedenborg taught me that it is
unlawful to quit the religion of one’s ancestors,
he said that with reference to Protestantism,
which is treason against the Mother Church.
Or, to put it better, Protestantism is a punishment
inflicted on the barbarians of the North.
Protestantism is the Exile, the Babylonish
Captivity, but the Return seems near, the Return to
the promised land. The immense progress which
Catholicism makes in America, England, and
Scandinavia seems to point towards a great
reconciliation, in which the Greek Church, which
has already stretched out her hand towards the
West, is not to be forgotten.
That is the dream of the socialists regarding
the restoration of the United States of the West,
but taken in a spiritual sense. But I beg you
not to think that it is a political theory which
takes me back to the Roman Church. I have
not sought Catholicism; it has found a place in
me, after following me for years. My child, who
became a Catholic against my will, has shown
me the beauty of a cult which has maintained
itself unaltered from the first, and I have
always preferred the original to the copy. The
considerable time I spent in my child’s native
country gave me opportunity to observe and
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