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240 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
doctrines of Christianity through an enlightened inter
pretation of the Divine Word, would remain a stranger
to the civil and political matters of his own country and
of the world, from the period his spiritual sight was
opened to hold converse with the spiritual world, and to
discern the internal or spiritual sense of the Holy Word.
Swedenborg, it is true, ceased, from that period, to devote
himself to those scientific and philosophical studies, which
had placed him in the first rank of the learned of Europe,
and he was occupied exclusively in the study of the Sacred
Scriptures, and in acquiring that spiritual information con
cerning man after death, which is so important for him
to know, and which, when properly seen and applied,
tends so greatly to promote him in wisdom and happiness.
Notwithstanding this new position in which Swedenborg
was placed, he did not neglect a single duty as a citizen,
and in this he acted in perfect conformity with the doc
trines he taught. *
The following is an address which Swedenborg pre
sented to the Estates of the Realm at the opening of the
general Diet in 1761 :†—
ADDRESS.
"The Estates of the kingdom having assembled for the
first time this year, and the honourable deputies being at
this moment engaged in their deliberations, I have the
honour to wish them the most happy success, and I sin
cerely trust that their resolutions may be decided as
unanimously as possible. I beg, at the same time, that
I may be permitted to suggest the following advice :
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The essential business of the honourable deputies
being that of examining all the facts which may be found
contrary to the laws and statutes of the kingdom, to
redress every wrong which concerns the public and the
state, and to entrust all particular and private business
to the different special deputations to which they belong,
* See the Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem, from begin
ning to end.
+ See La Nouvelle Jerusalem, Revue Religieuse et Scientifique,
Avril, 1840, p. 53.
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