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LETTER FROM DR. BEYER TO DR. OETINGER. 215
Word of enlightening wisdom is the truest mirror : the
science of correspondences supports the spiritual sight, a
sight which cannot be dispensed with. What our views
therefore ought to be, respecting these three fundamental
points, may be clearly learned from The New Jerusalem
and its Heavenly Doctrines, 280-310, and 249-266 ;
only let us not spare the trouble to examine more deeply
other individual important passages from the Arcana
Calestia, along with the peculiar treatises on the Doc
trine ofthe New Jerusalem concerning the Lord, and
concerning the Sacred Scriptures. Respecting the
science of correspondences, it is not probable that auy
person can conceive any idea of them, who thinks it a
labour to acquire an intimate acquaintance with the
treatise On Heaven and Hell, 87—115 ; as well as the
remarkable passages in the Arcana Calestia, 2987, and
the following numbers, and especially the general idea of
them, 7550. Being therefore persuaded, from the high
esteem in which you hold everything that is divine, that
you will spare no pains, be they ever so great, to maintain
the truth as it is presented to us in unshaken dignity, I
proceed, and with your approbation, more confidently, to
examine, with becoming modesty, the objections you have
advanced against his writings. •
" 1. You say that Assessor Swedenborg had not been
called to give an interpretation of the Scripture, but to
make known in these our days, the things he has seen
and heard in the spiritual world.
"2. You attribute to him that he does not follow the
literal meaning.
"3. You think that he leads to a doubtful and uncer
tain explanation of most passages in the Scriptures.
" 4. That he rests more upon the science of corres
pondences, than upon the clearest expressions of the
Sacred Word.
"5. That he invents things repugnant to the declaration
of Scripture, respecting the White Horse and the White
Horses, the Resurrection from the Dead, the Last Judg
ment, the New Heaven and the New Earth, and the
Holy City, the New Jerusalem.
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