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Doc. 256.] 443
CUNO’S EXPERIENCE.
A.
CUNO’S EXPERIENCE OF SWEDENBORG IN 1769.*
1. I must remain faithful to a promise made last year,
and begin by giving an account of the most singular saint
who has ever lived, Mr. Emanuel Swedenborg. As nothing
concerns me more in this world than the worship of God,
and as I found interspersed in the last work of that man
such strange and singular things, I was naturally impelled
by an irresistible curiosity to make the acquaintance of the
author. On reading the beginning of this book, which like
all his other works is written in Latin, and which bears the
title, "The Delights of Wisdom concerning Conjugial Love,"
after which follow "The Pleasures of Insanity concerning Scor
tatory Love," I could not think otherwise than that its author
was insane. Curiosity, however, induced me to read on, and
occasionally I found him uttering such thoughtful things, as I
had never before heard from academical desks and pulpits,
and which never before had entered my thoughts.
2. I submit to the judgment of my readers, what we
ought to think concerning a man, who begins his preliminary
chapter on the joys of heaven and nuptials there in these
words : "I am aware that many who read the following pages,
and the Memorable Relations annexed to the chapters, will
believe that they are fictions of the imagination ; but I protest
in truth that they are not fictions, but were truly done and
seen; not seen in any state of the mind asleep, but in a state
of full wakefulness : for it has pleased the Lord to manifest
Himself to me, and to send me to teach the things relating
to the New Church, which is meant by the New Jerusalem
in the Revelation: for which purpose he has opened the
interiors of my mind and spirit ; whereby it has been granted
me to be in the spiritual world with angels, and at the same
time in the natural world with men, and this now for twenty
five years." Such an unexpected assertion, which has never
* For the sake of convenient reference the paragraphs of this Document
have been numbered by the Editor.
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