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Doc. 229.] 249
SWEDENBORG TO ETINGER.
the Angels respecting the Divine Love and the Divine Wis
dom. These seven works, however, do not exceed seventy-two
sheets. This year there has been published the Apocalypsis
Revelata, which was promised in the treatise on "The Last
Judgment," and from which it may be clearly seen that I con
verse with angels, because not the smallest verse in the Apo
calypse can be understood without revelation. Who can help
seeing that by the New Jerusalem is understood a New Church,
and that its doctrines can be discovered only by the Lord
alone, because they are described there by mere typical things,
i. e. by correspondences ; and, likewise, that these can be pub
lished to the world only by means of some one to whom a re
velation has been granted? I can solemnly bear witness that
the Lord Himself has appeared to me, and that He has sent
me to do that which I am doing now, and that for this pur
pose He has opened the interiors of my mind, which are those
of my spirit, so that I may see those things which are in the
spiritual world, and hear those who are there, and which
[privilege] I have had now for twenty-two years. The mere
bearing witness, however, does not suffice at the present day to
convince men of this ; but any one of a sound understanding
may be confirmed by the testimony of my writings, and especially
by the Apocalypsis Revelata . Who has heretofore known any
thing about the spiritual sense of the Word ? and about the
spiritual world or heaven and hell ? also, about man’s life after
death? Should these and many other things be perpetually
hidden from Christians ? They have now for the first time
been disclosed for the sake of the New Church, which is the
New Jerusalem, that they [its members] may know them ;
others, indeed, shall also know them, who yet do not know
them on account of their unbelief.
The works which I mention above are sold by Mr. Lewis,
Paternoster Row, near Cheapside, London, England. These
writings of mine concerning the New Jerusalem cannot be
called prophecies, but revelations.
Farewell, and remember kindly
Yours sincerely,
Stockholm, September 23, 1766.
EM. SWEDENBORG.
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