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212 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [ Doc. 209.
white cups were standing, which were filled with milk and
bread, and which looked so inviting that nothing can be ima
gined more so. I was in company with a lady, of whom I
have no particular recollection. I then went back, when a
dear little innocent child* came to me, and told me that the
lady had gone without taking leave. She begged me to buy
her a book, which she wished to take with her, but which she
did not show me. I then awoke.
Besides this it seemed to me as if I entertained in a
house or palace which stood apart a large company of people
who were my acquaintances. Among them were Senators
Lagerberg and, I believe, Ehrenpreus¹73+ and others. All
this was at my expense, and it seemed to me as if it was
going to cost me a large sum ; the thought kept coming
continually, that it was expensive ; but every now and then I
did not care for that, for I noticed that the whole was borne
by the Lord, who owned that property, or exhibited it to
me. This signifies that I was in the kingdom of Innocence,
treating the worldly-minded people there without seeing them.
It means either that my work is not like them, although I
treat them with it, or something else. The child was innocence
itself;* with this I was quite touched, and I wished that I
might be in a kingdom where all is innocence. I regretted
that on awaking I had to leave it. I do not know what is
meant by the lady who went away without taking leave.
On the next day, or on the 9th, my eyesight was so strong
that I could read the Bible with the small print without the
least difficulty.
191. October 9X10. In a vision there appeared to me a
fire as of coal, which was burning briskly. This meant the
fire of love [see Note 161, vii].
Afterwards there was signified to me by a representation ***
[see Note 161 , iv, F], that on the previous day I was engaged
with my work, which is entirely different from the other§
* See Note 161, vi. See Note 161, i.
Swedenborg alludes here to the elaboration for the press of Part III
of the Regnum Animale; see Note 164, x.
§ The other work is that on "The Worship and Love of God" (see
no. 182).
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