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Doc. 209.] HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN 1744. 175
why in deep thought the lungs are kept in a state of equilibrium
and at rest, and breathe more naturally, and why the breath
is then inhaled more rapidly than exhaled, just the reverse of
what is usually the case; likewise, why, when a person is in
a state of ecstasy and the breath is retained, the thoughts are
as it were absent ; which is also the case in sleep, when both
the inhalation and exhalation belong to nature, and when that
is represented which flows in from above. The same may be
also deduced from the brain, where all the inmost organs to
gether with the brain itself are in a state of expansion during
inhalation, and where the thoughts originate and have their
*
course.
66. Afterwards I arrived at a place where amazingly large
and high wind-mills were going at a frightful speed. I came
then into darkness, so that I crept on the ground, being afraid
of some of the sails taking hold of, and thus killing me ; I
really got beneath a sail, which then stopped, and I brought
myself into such a position that the sail helped me. -On the
previous day I had had conflicting thoughts, which were
signified by the sails of the mill ;† so that at times I was at
a loss which way to turn. With God’s grace, however, they
were tempered, and I escaped safe and sound ; wherefore, glory
and honour be to God, who has respect for my weakness !
67. Afterwards it seemed to me as if I was in company
with some, who appeared desirous of making gold ; but they
saw that they had to climb up, which they were unable to
do, and that otherwise it was impossible for them to make
gold. This continued for some time, until at last I was to
* A summary of the action of the will and of nature in respiration is
given by Swedenborg in the Regnum Animale, Latin Edition, Vol. II, no. 348,
pp. 162, 163 ; English Edition, Vol. II , no. 410, p. 209 (u). This part
he probably saw through the press at the time; while the part which he
was preparing for the press was the chapter on the thymus gland, which
he mentions in no. 63, (2). Still it is possible that during the day he was
engaged on the chapter treating of the diaphragm, which follows that on
the thymus gland, and where in the Latin Edition, no. 389, note I (English
Edition, no. 451 , note I, p. 318) he likewise discusses the action of the
will and nature in respiration. See Note 166, iii.
See Note 161, xiii.
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