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Doc. 209.] HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN 1744. 179
taller and more beautiful. - The meaning is, that I was to
inform myself about the muscles and explore them .*
78. I had a preternaturally good and long sleep for twelve
hours. On awaking I had the crucifixion of Jesus and His
cross before my eyes. The Spirit came with its heavenly
and almost ecstatic life in so high a degree, and permitted
me, as it were, to rise higher and higher in it, that if I had
ascended still higher, I should have been dissolved in this real
life of joy.†
79. It then appeared to me, in the spirit, that I had gone
too far; that I had embraced in my thoughts Christ on the
cross, when I had kissed his feet, and afterwards moved to
a distance, falling on my knees and praying before Him
crucified : it seemed as if the sins of my weakness were
forgiven, whenever I did this. It occurred to me that I
might have Him before the eyes of my body in an image ;
but I found that such would be far from right, and, indeed, a
great sin.
80. April 15X16. It seemed to me as if I were climbing
up a ladder from a great deep ; others, women, came after
me. I stopped, and frightened them purposely, and then went
up. A green sward received me, where I lay down. The
others came after me, they were women, and lay down beside
me; one was young, and the other a little older. I kissed
the hands of both, and did not know which of the two I
should love.‡―Those who, finally, came up with me, and whom
I met, saluted, and received again, were my thoughts and
my mental occupation (ouvrage d’esprit), which are of two
kinds.§
81. Afterwards I came to a place where many men** were
assembled ; a great number of handsome young people were
* Swedenborg treats of the muscles in the Regnum Animale, throughout
the whole of the chapter on the diaphragm ; especially in the Latin Edition,
nos. 387-390, English Edition, nos. 449-453. He also wrote a special
treatise on the muscles about that time, which is contained in Codex 58
of his MSS., leaves 132 to 137, and which is photo-lithographed in Vol. VI
of his MSS., pages 13 to 25. See Note 161, iv, and Note 164, iv.
See Note 161, iv, A, B.
See Note 162, ii.
§ See no. 85, (1). ** See Note 161, vi.
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