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160 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 209.
7
From all this I perceived that it was the Son of God
Himself who had descended with such a noise, by which I
had been prostrated on the floor ; who made the prayer, and
thereby Himself declared that He was Jesus. I prayed for
grace, because I had so long entertained doubts on the sub
ject, and because it had entered into my thoughts to demand
a miracle, which I now found was unbecoming. Thereupon I
began to pray, and prayed only for grace ; more I could not
utter ; but afterwards I added to this prayer, and prayed that
I might receive love, which is Jesus Christ’s work, and not
my own. In the mean time tremors often passed over me.*
28. About day-break I fell asleep again, and then had
continually in my thought, how Christ conjoins Himself to
mankind; holy thoughts came, but they were of such a nature
as to be unfathomable; for I cannot express with my pen the
least part of those things which happened. I only know that
I have had such thoughts.
29. I saw my father in another dress, which was almost
reddish. He called me, and took hold of my arms, which
were in short sleeves, but with cuffs at the end. He took
both cuffs or ruffles, and tied them with my ribbons.-My hav
ing ruffles signifies that I am not among the clergy, but that
I am and ought to be in a civil office.
Afterwards he asked me what I thought about this question :
that a king had given leave to marry, and thus to change
their condition, to thirty who had been ordained into the
priesthood. I answered that I had thought and written some
thing on such a subject ; but that this has no connexion with
it. But immediately afterwards I found that I could answer in
accordance with my conscience, that it is not allowable for
any one to change that condition or state into which he has
entered, no matter what it may be. He said that he was of
the same opinion. But I added that if the king had resolved
upon this, the matter was settled. He said that he would
give his vote in writing ; if there are fifty [votes] the matter
remains as it is (så blir derefter). I noticed as remarkable,
the circumstance that I did not call him, My father, but My
* See Note 162, i, F.
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