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Doc. 209.] HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN 1744. 149
How a woman lay down by my side ; it seemed to me as
if I were in a state of wakefulness. I desired to find out who
she was. She spoke in a low voice ; but said that she was
pure, while I had a bad odour. She was, I believe, my
guardian-angel, for temptation then began.
DOCUMENT 209.
SWEDENBORG’S SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
IN 1744.*
1. March 24×25.† I was standing [in my dream] beside
a machine which was set in motion by a wheel ; I became
more and more involved in its spokes (stängar), and was
carried up, so that I could not escape: when I awoke.-This
means either that I ought to be kept longer in straits, or it
describes the state of the lungs [with the embryo] in the
womb, on which subject I wrote immediately afterwards. It
had reference to both.
* Concerning the original of this Document, see the Introduction to
Document 208, p. 134. For the sake of convenient reference the editor
has numbered the paragraphs of this Document.
As an Introduction to this Document read Note 161 , containing
"Swedenborg’s Philosophy of Dreams."
The mark X between two dates signifies the intermediate night.
This sign is also used by Swedenborg in his manuscript Codex 58, p. 175,
which is preserved in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Stock
holm. He says there: "What I wrote here was pronounced to me in a
wonderful manner; see the dream of July 1 ×2" ( Vide somnium, July 1 × 2).
At the time when Swedenborg began writing his spiritual experience
of 1744, he had prepared for the press the manuscript of the Regnum
Animale as far as Vol. I, no. 272 (p. 331 of the Latin Edition, and
p. 398 of the English Edition) ; for the allusion which he makes in no. 1
to "the state of the lungs in the womb," is one of the subjects discussed
in that paragraph, where we read: "The lungs which open the scene and
commence the drama of this life, are then constricted and closed, and
neither emit nor admit the vital breath of the body." For further infor
mation on this subject see Note 164, iv, which treats of " Swedenborg’s
Studies in 1743 and 1744."
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