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708 ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANIES. [Doc. 284.
B.
PREFACE TO SWEDENBORG’S "DOCTRINE OF THE LORD””.
"A few years ago the following five works were published :
1. Heaven and Hell ; 2. Doctrine of the New Jerusalem ; 3. The
Last Judgment; 4. The White Horse; 5. The Planets and
Earths in the Universe. In these works many things hitherto
unknown, were discovered. Now, by the command of the Lord,
who has revealed himself to me, the following works are to
be published :
"The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem respecting the Lord.
"The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem respecting the Sacred
Scripture.
"The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem, from the
precepts of the Decalogue.
"The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem respecting Faith.
"Continuation concerning the Last Judgment.
"Angelic Wisdom respecting the Divine Providence.
"Angelic Wisdom respecting the Divine Omnipotence, Omni
presence, Omniscience, Infinity, and Eternity. †
"Angelic Wisdom respecting the Divine Love and Wisdom.
"Angelic Wisdom respecting Life.
"It is said " The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem,’ but
thereby is understood the Doctrine for the New Church which
is to be established by the Lord at the present day ; for the
Old Church has arrived at its end, as may appear from
those things which have been said in the work on ’The Last
Judgment,’ nos. 33 to 39, and which will be discussed more
fully in the succeeding works which have been mentioned above.
That by the NewJerusalem, foretold in the Revelation, chap. xxi,
as to be established after the Judgment, is understood a New
Church, may be seen in the last chapter of the following work
[i. e. the Doctrine of the Lord]."
* See "Doctrina Nova Hierosolyma de Domino," Amsterdam , 1763.
Respecting the promised treatise on "Omnipotence, Omnipresence,
Infinity," &c., see Document 234, III , p. 261.
The promised treatise respecting "Life" is no doubt the treatise on
Charity, which was left by Swedenborg in MS., and which has since been
printed under the title, "The Doctrine of Charity."
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