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174 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
likewise explains a Divine Trinity in those that are
renewed through faith, p. 695, Apol. p. 130 ; but which
in reality is not a true explication of the Divine Trinity
in God the Saviour, as shall be fully demonstrated in
that work, which I intend laying before the public within
the space of two years. In the mean time, the Brief
Exposition, as a forerunner of it, will prepare the way
for its reception. This treatise has been dispersed
throughout Christendom, Sweden excepted, and that for
this reason because true divinity exists there only in its
wintery state ; and, in general, towards the North Pole,
there is a greater length of spiritual night than in the
southern parts ; and, therefore, those who stand in that
darkness may be supposed to kick and stumble more than
others against every thing in the New Church, which is
the produce of an unprejudiced reason and understanding;
yet, at the same time, we are to admit of some exceptions
to his observation in the ecclesiastical order. I apply to
myselfwhat our Saviour says to His disciples, Matt. 16.
66
The remarkable particulars related concerning your
wife, in her dying hours, were wrought through the im
pression of two clergymen, who so directed and employed
her thoughts in conversation, as to effect a conjunction
with such spirits as she then spoke of. In the hour of
death, it happens, at times, to some people, that they are in
a state of the spirit. The spirits, who first spoke through
her, were of the dragon’s society, that were cast out of
heaven, agreeably to the prediction in the Revelations,
xii. They are thence become so filled with enmity
and hatred towards our Saviour, and, consequently, to
wards His holy Word, and all that belongs to the New
Church, that they cannot even bear to hear the name of
Christ mentioned. When the sphere of the Lord, pro
ceeding from the heavens, lights on them, they become as
it were mad, and in a terrible rage; and directly seek to
hide themselves in holes and caverns, as spoken of in the
Revelations vi. 16. Your deceased wife was with me
yesterday, and informed me of a variety of things con
cerning what she thought, and what she had spoken to you
her husband, and to the clergymen, the seducers. Were I
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