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36 [Doc. 5 .
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
“I went home ; and during the night the same man revealed
himself to me again , but I was not frightened now . He then
said that He was the Lord God, the Creator of the world, and
the Redeemer, and that He had chosen me to explain to men
the spiritual sense of the Scripture, and that He Himself
would explain to me what I should write on this subject;
that same night also were opened to me, so that I became tho
roughly convinced of their reality, the worlds of spirits, heaven,
and hell, and I recognized there many acquaintances of every
condition in life. From that day I gave up the study of all
worldly science, and laboured in spiritual things, according as
the Lord had commanded me to write. Afterwards the Lord
opened, daily very often, my bodily (lekamlig) eyes, so that,
in the middle of the day I could see into the other world,
and in a state of perfect wakefulness converse with angels and
spirits."
16. Swedenborg rarely went to Church ; partly, because
he could not be edified by preaching which was so different
from his own revelations ; and partly because he suffered from
the stone. Neither did he partake of the Holy Com
munion ; and as he was closely related to two bishops,
one of them, during the diet of 1760, remonstrated with
him upon it in a friendly manner. Swedenborg answered,
that inasmuch as he was conjoined with the Lord God, and
had been called by Him, and as he was, moreover, in com
pany with angels and saints, this religious act, in his case,
could not be looked upon in the same light, as in the case
of the other inhabitants of this earth. But when he was re
minded that by observing the sacrament he would set a good
example, he yielded and he took the communion before the
altar of the Church which had been fitted up for the Maria
parish after the conflagration of 1759.
.17. A few days previously he asked his old serving people,
which clergyman he might ask for this service, for he did
not know them particularly. When the elder chaplain was pro
posed, Swedenborg said at once : “No ; for he is a passionate
man, and a violent priest; I was much displeased in hearing
him thunder from the pulpit.” His assistant was then proposed,
the second chaplain, who was less liked in the parish. “ This
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