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Doc. 209.] HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN 1744. 153
when he said, Yes. He then closed the windows, and I helped
him to arrange the curtains. I then got on horseback, yet
did not take the way I thought ; but went over hills and
mountains, riding all the time, with a heavy load behind me.
I could not ride away [from it], and the horse became fatigued
by the load, when I desired it to turn in somewhere ; it
entered, when it became like some slaughtered, bloody, red
animal, and lay down.-This signifies that I received every
thing I could think of for my information, and that I am
perhaps pursuing a wrong method. The load behind me by
which I became so weary and dead on the way, is the remain
ing part of my work.
14. I stepped out of a carriage, which was being driven
into a lake. While driving into it the coachman called to
another carriage to take care ; there was real danger upon
driving in. I looked at the other carriage ; behind, it seemed
to have a screen, which was opened like an umbrella. I, to
gether with the person who sat behind, took the screen, stepped
in and shut it up. -It meant that the beginning of my work
was difficult. The second carriage was warned to be on its
guard, and I, that I should draw in my sails, and not make
my notes so long.*
15. April 2×3. Two persons came; they entered into a
house which although built, was not yet furnished. They went
round, but did not seem favourably impressed. We saw that
our power was gone, and were afraid of them. One of them
approached me and said that they had determined to inflict
a punishment upon me next Maunday Thursday, unless I re
moved. I did not know how to get out, but he said he would
show me the way : I awoke. —This signified that I had invited
the Highest to me into an unprepared and untidy hut,† and
that He found it unbecoming, wherefore I was to be punished.
He, nevertheless, most graciously pointed out a way to me,
by which I could escape their wrath.
A beggar was there, who exclaimed, that he wanted to
* Swedenborg alludes here to the notes under the text of the Regnum
Animale.
See Note 161, xiii.
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