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Doc. 283.] NOTICES IN THE SWEDISH MERCURY. 705
we do so with a feeling of perfect safety, as we can attest
that their contents are far beyond our own modest power of
comprehension." The critic gives then the complete Latin
titles of the following works, "Arcana Coelestia," "Heaven and
Hell," "The Last Judgment," The New Jerusalem," "The White
Horse," and "The Earths in the Universe."
3. In the number for August, 1764, we read : "Assessor
Eman. Swedenborg has recently returned from his journey
abroad (see "Swedish Mercury," June, 1763, p. 477). He
staid most of the time in Holland, where he published
several new books in Amsterdam. The former singular works
of the Assessor, treating on theology, have been enumerated
in the January number of the ’ Swenska Mercurius.’ Those which
he has published since are as follows. " The editor gives now the
Latin titles ofthe following works, "The Divine Love and Wisdom,"
"The Divine Providence," "The Four Leading Doctrines, " and
"The Continuation concerning the Last Judgment," &c.; con
cerning which he says, "All these are in large 4to, and superbly
printed, like the larger and smaller works published in London
from 1749 to 1758. The whole collection is in the Royal
Library of Stockholm, as a present from the author" (p. 651).
4. In the number for February, 1765, we read : "The
journalists abroad * announce a singular work, bearing the
following title: Doctrina Nova Hierosolymæ de Domino, &c.,
which contains entirely new revelations, and the most unheard
of visions. The author says, that upon the express command
of God he produces them in the light of day, and that the
things he writes he himself has seen, not while asleep, but
in a state of perfect wakefulness ; also that for nineteen years
he has had permission with open eyes to wander about in the
spiritual world, i. e. in those lands which are inhabited by
deceased men, and where they lead a new life, after their death.
Nothing is more erroneous than our notions about the future
world. It has been thought that our actions in God’s King
dom could not consist in eating and drinking, or in enjoying
See "Bibliothèque des Sciences et des Beaux Arts," October, November,
and December, 1763, p. 550 etseq. and the "Journal des Savans," October, 1764,
Dutch edition, p. 528. Both these journals are published in Amsterdam and
the Hague. See also "Monthly Review" for June, 1764, Vol. XXX, p. 573.
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