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154 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [ Doc. 209.
have some bacon ; when they offered him something else, he
still called out for bacon: I awoke.- This, I believe, signi
fies the same.
16. I saw two troops of soldiers, dressed in blue, marching
in two bodies past my window, which was partly open. I de
sired to look out and watch the marching of the first corps,
which seemed to me magnificent : I awoke. -This means a
gracious protection, so that I may escape destruction. *
17. N. B.-April 3X4, the day before Easter. I experienced
nothing the whole night, † although I repeatedly woke up ; I
thought that all was past and gone, and that I had been
either forsaken or exiled. About morning it seemed to me
as if I were riding and as if I had had the direction pointed
out. It was, however, dark, and when I looked I found that
I had gone astray on account of the darkness ; but then it
brightened up, and I saw how I had gone wrong, and noticed
the way, and the forests and groves which I was to go through,
and also heaven behind ; when I awoke. My thoughts then, of
their own accord, turned upon this, and afterwards on the
other life, and it seemed to me as if everything was full of
grace. I burst into tears at not having loved, but rather
provoked, Him who had led me and pointed out the way to
the kingdom of grace ; and also at my being unworthy of ac
ceptance by grace.t
18. April 4X5. I went to the Lord’s table.
(One courier more was said to have come; I said that this
probably was–)§
There was sung the melody and a line I remember from
the hymn : "Jesus is my best of friends. " **
It seemed to me as if the buds had opened and were
green.
19. April 5X6. Easter was on the 5th of April, when I
* See Note 161, v.
That is, Swedenborg had no dreams that night.
See Introduction to Document 208, p. 140.
§ These words are crossed out in the original.
** The whole of this hymn, in an English translation , is given in
Note 169.
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