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Doc. 209.] HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN 1744. 213
and [proceeds from] an entirely different love; and [ I was in
doubt] whether the former work should prevail* (om den skulle
råda), and whether it should not rather be regarded as mere
talk and as a plaything only, when compared with the other.
Upon awaking I fully made up my mind to abandon the former
work ; and I should have done so, if it had not afterwards
seemed to me in my sleep, that I had been sent to a certain
place with a letter. I did not find the way; but my sister
Hedwig saw the letter, and said it was intended for Ulrica
Adlersten, who had it appeared longed for me. I went there,
and saw also Schönström.81 Afterwards I had continually a
sensation as if they went up to the brain and down again.
By this I was confirmed to go on with my work.§ May God
grant that this be not against His good pleasure, since as
soon as I break off my sleep I at once come into the effort
to abandon it ; besides God Himself helped me to arrive at
this resolution.** To God alone be praise and honour!
A child fell over my foot, hurt himself, and screamed ; I
helped him to get up, and said, Why do you race so ?-This
no doubt meant that I was too much in a hurry with that [i. e.
the second work].††
192. October 10X11 . I was in company with a woman,‡‡
yet did not approach her. I afterwards met a gentleman
whom I asked whether I could enter his service, since I had
lost my place through the war. The answer was, No. They
* The meaning of this seems to be, whether Swedenborg should go on
with the Regnum Animale, or not.
† He alludes here to the elaboration for the press of Part III of the
Regnum Animale ; see Note 164, x.
Ulrica Adlersten was the wife of Swedenborg’s first cousin, Albrecht
Schönström;81 see Document 9, p. 85, no. 3.
§ Swedenborg seems to have been in doubt whether to proceed with
the printing of Vol III of the Regnum Animale, or not; see Note 164, x.
** He appears to have gone on with the printing of the Regnum Animale
until October 27, when he began the preparation of his other work, De
Cultu et Amore Dei; see no. 202.
The other work is that on "The Worship and Love of God" (see
no. 182).
# See Note 161, iv, E.
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