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750 [Doc. 299.
ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANIES.
On another fly-leaf of the " Spiritual Diary" we find the
following annotation : "I had the first dream about the father
and mother of the man in Schonen, in 1749, on the 20th
and 22nd."
DOCUMENT 299.
SWEDENBORG’S THOUGHTS ON READING
SWAMMERDAM’S " BIBLIA NATURÆ."
On the fly-leaf of Swedenborg’s copy of Swammerdam’s
"Biblia Naturæ, " which he presented to Count Höpken (see
Document 218, p. 233), and which is now in the possession of
Dr. Lovén of the "Carolinska Institut" in Stockholm, is written
by his own hand, as follows :
"When such as believe in nature see how these animals or
insects are generated in the ground or on the leaves of plants,
and when they examine the wonderful things in their organisms,
and things made by their means, they think that nature produces
them, not knowing that their formation and vivification is from
the spiritual world, and their reception and clothing from the
natural world ; further, that the heat of the sun at the time of
spring and summer dissolves and adapts the particles of purer
nature for the reception of influx, and for the process of cloth
ing. Wherefore the same argument and the same confirmation ,
which the believers of nature derive hence, are to me an argu
ment for, and a confirmation of, a continual influx from the
spiritual into the natural world. Written in the year 1750.
"The changes of caterpillars into butterflies, the government
of bees, and many other things which are described in this
book, are manifest signs of such an influx."
"Additional information on this subject may be found in
the work on ’Heaven and Hell,’ no. 567 ; compare also nos. 39,
108, and 109, in the same work."
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