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156 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [ Doc. 209
it by the throat, when it could not bite me, and I could not
do it much harm ; but, finally, I grasped it by the jaws, which
I pressed hard, and also by the nose, which I squeezed so
that something like matter or poison started from it. I was
told that although the dog did not belong to me , yet
if it bit me, I should have to chastise it. Thereupon it
seemed to me as if I told him [Broman ] that I was not going
to say a single word to him, and thus had an estrangement from
him. When I awoke, I was uttering the words : Hold thy
tongue ! From this, without any further explanation, may be
seen the nature of the temptation, and, on the other hand,
the greatness of God’s grace by the merit of Christ and the
operation of the Holy Spirit ;* to whom be glory forever and
ever. The idea at once struck me, how great the grace of
the Lord is, who accounts and appropriates to us our resist
ance in temptation ; although it is purely God’s grace,† and
is His and not our work ; and He overlooks the weaknesses
which we display in it, which yet must be manifold. I thought
also of the great glory our Lord dispenses, after a brief period
of tribulation (see Note 165, iv).
20. I then fell asleep, and it appeared to me the whole
night, how I was joined, first in various ways, with others,
on account of being sinful ; and how afterwards I was enve
loped in wonderful and indescribable circumvolutions , and
so, during the whole night, was inaugurated in a wonderful
manner. It was then said, ’Is there any Jacobite more than
honest’ (mon nogon jacobit är mehr än redlig), and in con
clusion I was received with an embrace; afterwards it was
said that he ought not to be called so, the name being given,
but so ; but I do not recollect the name, unless it be Jacobite.
The signification of this I cannot describe : it was a mystical
series.
21. Afterwards I awoke and slept again many times ; and
all [I dreamt] was in answer to my thoughts ; yet so, that in
every thing there was such life and glory, that I can give no
description of it ; for it was all heavenly ; clear to me at the
* See Note 165, vi. + See Note 165, viii.
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