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210 SWEDENBORG’S
TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 209.
I believe it was to contain also something about spirits;
my book on the Infinite (de Infinito) * I thought treated on
something similar ; but I did not receive an answer to this
[suggestion].
183. Afterwards I lighted upon these thoughts, and received
this instruction, viz. that all love for whatever object, as, for
instance for the work upon which I am now engaged—whenever
such an object is loved [for its own sake], and not as a medium
for the only love, which is to God and Jesus Christ,† is
a meretricious love. For this reason also this love is always
compared in God’s Word to whoredom. This I have also
experienced in myself. But when love to God is man’s
chief love, then he does not entertain for these objects any
other kind of love than that of promoting thereby his love
to God.
184. I seemed also to see the Czar Peter, with other
Russian magnates, who despised me because I had half sleeves.
I do not know to what party they belonged.
On several occasions fine bread with other things was
given to me. May God grant that this be, as I believe, the
spiritual bread.§
185. From this, and from what has been said before, it
may be seen how easily human beings may be led astray by
other kinds of spirits,** who represent themselves to men accord
ing to the quality of the love of each : for loves are represented
by spirits, even in the very operation when women [the rest
of the sentence is wanting].
186. October 7X8. I desired to follow a certain way, but
saw a little boy going up a narrow footpath. I followed him,
but came into a fog. It seemed to me as if there were
soldiers. I walked on crouching and was afraid. I thought,
however, that they were not enemies, but some of our own
people. But when I could not see any road before me, I
turned about, and came into a room in a state of disorder.
I asked for another apartment, and after obtaining it, I
See first footnote on p. 6. Vol. II.
See Note 165, i.
§ See Note 161 , x.
See Note 161, iv, B.
** Cfr. no. 179.
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