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DECLARATION OF DR. G. A. BEYER. 193
or who puts his candle under a bushel ? When truths
apparently new and unknown, but which in their essence
are the old and genuine truths, are again manifested,
terms must likewise be required to express them, which
may appear new and unusual at first sight, though they
are, nevertheless, the necessary vehicles for conveying
such sublime and important information.
"III. To proceed briefly, yet explicitly, to the subject
of the author’s experience and intercourse with the
spiritual world, and as to what he has seen or heard
therein; respecting which it may be affirmed, that a
confidence in the reality of what he has thus seen or
heard, will be the natural result of an acquaintance with,
and an acknowledgment of, the fundamental principles of
his system. For proof of some of the ideas suggested
in the author’s works, such as of that concerning the
sun in heaven, that it is the essential Love and Wisdom
proceeding from the Lord ; that it is the origin of every
good and truth ; that the genuine human principle ori
ginates in it ; also, that the will and the understanding
are the essentials of man, and that they are the recep
tacles of good and truth ; that without the senses, internal
and external, there can be no perception of life ; that life
and the senses do not exist except in proper organic
forms ; that the kingdom of the Lord is, from the greatest
to the least, a kingdom of ends and uses ; besides many
other general ideas, of which a complete knowledge may
be obtained ; see the volume treating of the Wisdom of
Angels concerning the Divine Love and Wisdom. It
may be observed, how little mankind have hitherto been
able to form, in any degree, a precise idea respecting the
eternal world ! With what delight then ought we now to
learn what has hitherto been unknown, and even supposed
impossible to be known ! The more these truths are ex
amined, the more they will be found to harmonise with
the accounts given us in the Holy Scriptures, where these
subjects are represented to view in the general literal
meaning, but are more particularly contained in the
spiritual sense.
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