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Doc. 234.] 261
SWEDENBORG TO BEYER.
to me; because unfounded opinions and inventions might there
by have easily insinuated themselves, which afterwards could
only have been removed with difficulty ; wherefore, when heaven
was opened to me, I had first to learn the Hebrew language,
as well as the correspondences according to which the whole
Bible is composed, which led me to read the Word of God
over many times ; and as God’s Word is the source whence
all theology must be derived, I was enabled thereby to receive
instruction from the Lord, who is the Word.
II. Query: How soon a New Church may be expected?
Answer : The Lord is preparing at this time a New Heaven
of those who believe in Him, acknowledge Him as the true
God of heaven and earth, and look to Him in their lives,
which means to shun evil and do good ; for from that heaven
the New Jerusalem is to come down ; see Rev. xxi, 2. I daily
see spirits and angels, from ten to twenty thousand, descend
ing and ascending, and being set in order. By degrees, as that
heaven is being formed, the New Church likewise begins and
increases. The universities in Christendom are now first be
ing instructed, whence will come new ministers ; for the new
heaven has no influence over the old [clergy] who deem them
selves too learned in the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
III. About the promised treatise on infinity, omnipotence, and
omnipresence.* Answer: There are many things on these subjects
interspersed throughout the " Angelic Wisdom concerning the
Divine Providence," nos. 46 to 54, and 157 ; also in the "Angelic
Wisdom concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom,"
nos. 4, 17, 19, 21 , 44, 69, 72, 76, 106, 156, 318, and in the
"Apocalypse Revealed," no. 961 ; these subjects will be further
treated of in the arcana of Angelic Wisdom concerning Con
jugial Love: for to write a separate treatise on these Divine
attributes, without the assistance of something to support them,
would cause too great an elevation of the thoughts ; wherefore
these subjects have been treated in a series with other things
.
which fall within the understanding.
I have with pleasure perused your "New Essays on the
This work was promised by Swedenborg in 1763 in the preface to the
Doctrine of the Lord.
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