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Doc. 209.] HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN 1744. 209
follow them; but woe to those who do so. Another time Korah
and Dathan occurred to me, who brought strange fire to the
altar, and could not offer it ;* such is the case when a different
fire is introduced than that which comes from Christ. I saw
also something like a fire coming to me. It is necessary
therefore that a distinction should be made between spirits ;
which, however, cannot be done except through Christ Himself
and His spirit.‡
180. Afterwards it was represented to me in sleep what
terrible danger I had been in the night between the 29th and
30th of last month, when I was upon ice which afterwards
could scarcely bear me, and I came then to a fearfully great
chasm ; a person on the other side could not come to my
assistance , wherefore I turned back. God alone through
Christs has helped me in this danger : for He is as a Lord
and Master to me, and I am His slave ; and to Him, without
whom no one can come to God,*
** be all honour and thanks !
181. October 6X7. There was a vivid and yet gracious
appearance as if all was overcast by black crape or skin,
which was shining, yet had no consistence; it was said that
it could not endure, wherefore it was wrapped up, and I
received a promise of greater enlightenment; there was also
an appearance as of an inward light. This [viz. the wrapping
up] I was trying to do from my own self on Sundays.- This
denotes that by my own understanding and my own phantasy
I desired to enter into something which is compared to crape,
and which did not stand the proof
.
182. Iwas further informed respecting my book upon the "Wor
ship and Love of God," which was said to be a Divine book;††
t
See Note 162, i, D.
** See Note 165, ii.
§ See Note 165, i.
* Book of Numbers, chap. xvi.
See Note 165, iv.
A work entitled "The Worship and Love of God" (De Cultu et
Amore Dei) was soon after, in 1745, published by Swedenborg in London,
containing two parts. Part III was left by him in an unfinished state, partly in
proof-sheets and partly in manuscript, and in this condition is preserved now
among the Swedenborg MSS. in the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
A fac-simile edition of this part is contained in Vol. VII of the photo
lithographic edition of the Swedenborg MSS. An English translation of
Parts I and II appeared in London in 1801, and another in 1828 ; an
American edition was published some time afterwards.
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