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172 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 209.
delighted with whatever He pleases to do with His own; still
we must ask the Lord for this, because not even the least
thing is in our own power. For this the Lord gave me His
grace. I reflected upon this, desiring to understand the reason
why all this happens.* Yet this was sinful ; for my thoughts
ought not to have gone in that direction, but I ought to have
prayed to the Lord for power to control them. It ought to
be enough for us [to know] that it so pleases the Lord. In
everything we ought only to call upon Him, pray to and thank
Him, and with humility recognize our own unworthiness.
60. I am still weary in my body and mind ; for I know
nothing except my own unworthiness, and am in pain on
account of being a wretched creature. I see by this know
ledge that I am unworthy of the grace I have received.
61. 1 observed also that the stream of water which rushed
down [cfr. no. 55 ] penetrated the clothes of some one, as he
withdrew. It is possible that a drop of it reached me, and
that it urges me on so; suppose the whole stream [had descended
upon me]?
I therefore accepted the following creed : God’s will be
done ; I am Thine and not mine.†
God give His grace for this [ work] ; for it is not mine.
62. I learned that a person may be in spiritual anguish ;
even though he be assured by the Spirit that his sins are for
given, and although he have the hope and confidence that he
is in God’s grace.
63. April 11X12. I dreamt during the whole night, yet
I recollect only very little. It seemed to me as if I were
instructed the whole night in many things which I do not
remember. I was asleep for nearly eleven hours, and what
I recollect seems to be this: 1. The substantial or essential
points which one ought to pay attention to and to seek after
were mentioned. 2. The thymus gland and succenturiate kidneys
were mentioned. Of this I make the following explanation :
* That is, why Swedenborg had to experience these peculiar states.
This is crossed out in the original. See also no. 69.
The thymus gland and its relation to the succenturiate kidneys or
suprarenal capsules (glandulæ renales), are treated of by Swedenborg in
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