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Doc. 209.] HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN 1744. 219
more interior and deeper ; but I soon got over it. This
signifies that my head is being cleared, and is really being
cleansed of all that would obstruct these thoughts ; as was
also the case last time ; because it gave me penetration,
especially whilst writing. This was also represented to me
now, in that I appeared to write a fine hand.* ✓
[ Thus ends the remarkable diary of Swedenborg’s spiri
tual experience in 1744. After a few blank pages there
is another entry marked : 11X12, recording some experience
he had with Prof. Ehlreich,109 + similar to that described
in no. 140, under the date, May 19×20. From this it would
seem that the date of these memoranda is June 11X12, 1744,
and that no. 208 which now follows ought in reality to come
after no. 143.]
208. *** I left Prof. Ehlreich. On the way there was
deep water; but at the side there was a passage (en gång),
where was very little ; wherefore I stepped out at the side,
for it did not seem necessary for me to walk through the
deep water.
A rocket seemed to burst over my head, which shed many
sparks of beautiful fire.- It means perhaps love for what
is high.§
209. On another blank page in the back part of the original
manuscript volume the author gives a further explanation, in
Latin, of a statement made by him in no. 149, to this effect :
All objects of the sciences, viz. all truths, were represented
to him under the form of women or virgins, ** and he declares
himself there to be their "devoted servant;" although these
words are afterwards crossed out.
* See Note 162, i, B.
See Note 161, iv, F.
** See Note 161, iv, A.
See Note 160, iii.
§ See Note 161, vii.
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