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206 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 209.
I heard just now, and it was also breathed into me, that
I ought not to leave the Church of Christ, nor [go] to that
place to take the Lord’s Supper, that if I did so I should
become again spiritually dead.* More I could not understand
of this, so that there must be some mystery connected with
it. When I abstained from the Holy Supper [cfr. no. 164],
I was illuminated by the Holy Spirit, which is usually the
case when I act according to command.
170. September 16 ; on a Sunday afternoon. In the night
between the fifteenth and sixteenth I saw in my dream two
kings, the King of France and the King of Poland who
proposed sublime things to me. Afterwards I saw a little
girl who sang to me, when I went out.-This signifies that
what I had written was well-pleasing ; it was the last of the
first chapter on the sense of touch.‡
171. Immediately after dinner, while I was sleeping, a
womans appeared to me, but I did not see her face. She
was very stout, and dressed entirely in white. I desired to
purchase from her something to drink; she replied that she
had nothing left. There was one present who yielded me his
right to get a glass from her which she had concealed in her
dress . She was looking for it, when I saw how very stout
she was, as if she were with child.** After looking in the
folds of her sleeve, she found again what she had for drinking.
I thought it was chocolate, but it was wine. I thought I
would not have it, if it were chocolate ; but immediately after
wards I awoke. It seemed to me then, as well as several
times before, that I perceived a very strong smell of wine. I
wondered most at her snow-white clothes.-I do not under
stand very well what this signifies ; and whether she was the
woman who was with me, when the word sanctuarium was
mentioned [cfr. no. 114], and who was now with child, for I
* See Note 161, ii. See Note 161, v.
The last portion of the first chapter on the sense of touch, which
treats on the use of touch, extends from p. 136 to 144, in Part III of the
Regnum Animale, Latin Edition, and from p. 555 to p. 561 in Vol. II of
the English Edition. See Note 164, ix, E.
§ See Note 161, iv. ** See Note 161, iv, D.
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