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214 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [ Doc. 209.
played as it were basset ;* the money kept changing hands,
and I was present with them all the time. I asked my servant
whether he had said that I owned some [money] ; he answered,
No, and said that he would give no other answer. This
signifies the Moravian church [see no. 142], that I am with
them and yet not accepted by them; also that I say I have
no knowledge about religion, but have lost all ; further that
they who play basset keep losing and winning.
193. October 12X13. It seemed to me as if some one was
beaten and scourged ; yet afterwards he preached above and below
with greater zeal, and did the same [as before].- By this is meant
that when any one receives chastisement from our Lord, he
is afterwards gifted with greater zeal and spirit to go on with
that to which he is led by the Spirit; so that chastisement
and punishment augment them. On the previous day I was
thinking that I was so glad ; I allowed my thoughts free
course, [and wondered] whether punishment would cause a
change in this : the above is the answer to this question.
194. Afterwards I seemed to say to myself that the Lord
Himself will instruct me.§-For, as I discovered, I am in such
a state that I know nothing on this subject [i. e. on religion,
cfr. no. 192 ], except that Christ must be all in all, or God
through Christ, so that we of ourselves cannot contribute the
least towards it, and still less strive for it: wherefore it is
best to surrender at discretion , and were it possible to be
altogether passive in this matter, it would be a state of
perfection.**
195 I saw also in a vision how some beautiful bread was
presented to me on a plate. This was a prediction that
the Lord Himself will instruct me, as soon as I have attained
that state in which I shall know nothing, and in which all
my preconceived notions will be removed from me ; which is
the first state of learning : or, in other words, that I must
* Basset is a game of cards, played in the last century, resembling the
modern faro ; it is said to have been invented in Venice by a nobleman,
who was banished for the invention.
See Note 165, iv.
See Note 162, iii.
§ See Introduction to Document 208, p. 140.
** See Note 165, vii. See Note 161, x.
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