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Doc. 256.] 463
CUNO ON SWEDENBORG’S DOCTRINES.
8. On p. 128, Cuno expresses himself as follows, "God is
a spirit, although in the Sacred Scripture He ascribes to
Himself eyes, ears, and other human organs, yea, human
passions such as hatred, anger, wrath, and the like. I often
tried, especially during the last days of his stay here, to enter
into a conversation with the old gentleman, Swedenborg, on
this subject. But you might as well try to debate a question
with a little child, as with him ; for from simplicity, or rather
obstinacy, he constantly persisted in saying, that God certainly
is a spirit, that nothing is more certain than this ; but that
in heaven all spirits become visible. That God had created
man according to His likeness ; and he asked me what idea
I derived from this statement? That all spirits appear in heaven
in the human form, and that whenever they have appeared in
this world, they were likewise seen in that form. So also the
triune God in One person was in the human form ; and as
body, soul, and spirit constitute only one man, so also there
was only one God ; that the Son was the body, the Father
the soul, and the Holy Spirit the Divine power proceeding
from the Divine body and the Divine soul."
8.* "I asked him once, ’Whence came the serpent by
whom Adam and Eve were seduced ?’ ’All evil comes from
hell,’ he answered. ’But my dear, old, honest Mr. Swedenborg,
what are you thinking of? You wish to inculcate upon the
world your new doctrine, that in heaven there is not a single
angel, and in hell not a single devil, who has not been a
human being in the world before.’ ’Yes, indeed, that is true,
and must remain true.’ ’But I beg you, at the time when
the serpent was the seducer there were no human beings.
Moses writes God’s Word which you yourself acknowledge ;
Abel therefore according to him must have been the first
angel, and Cain the first devil ; but perhaps the serpent is
the divinity of hell in distinction from the Divinity of heaven.’
You can scarcely believe, how much our seer became con
fused thereby; he did not wish to be taken for a Manichean,
and therefore preferred to assume Pre- Adamites. I had
previously heard him stutter at various times, but never so
* See "Aufzeichnungen," &c., p. 140.
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