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DOCUMENT 300.
THE SIGNIFICATION OF THE HORSE AND
HIEROGLYPHICS.*
[To the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm,]
"As it must necessarily appear strange at the present day
that by a horse is signified the understanding of truth, and,
in an opposite sense, reasonings by which falsities are con
firmed as it were from the understanding, I wish to adduce
additional passages from the Word where the horse is men
tioned. These passages are as follows : ’
Is Thy wrath against
the sea, O Jehovah, that Thou ridest upon Thine horses ? Thy
chariots are salvation. Thou walkest into the sea with Thine
.
horses, into the mire of great waters’ (Hab. iii. 8, 15).
The hoofs of the horses of Jehovah are accounted as rocks’
(Isa. v. 28). ’At Thy rebuke both the chariot and the horse
are cast into a dead sleep’ (Psalm lxxvi. 6). ’I will over
* The Latin original of this Document is preserved in the Royal Library
in Stockholm, to which it has recently been transferred from the Library
of Count Engeström. It was published by the Royal Librarian, G. E. Klem
ming, Esq., in the appendix to " Swedenborg’s Drömmar." p. 73 et seq. A
copy ofthis paper it seems was also communicated by Swedenborg in a letter
to the Rev. T. Hartley. An English translation of that letter appeared in
the ’Intellectual Repository’ for December, 1842, and was afterwards published
by the Swedenborg Society as an appendix to the treatise on "The White
Horse." The latter part of this letter where it treats of Egyptian hiero
glyphics was also reprinted in the appendix to the English edition of the
"Swedenborg Documents," published in Manchester in 1855.
From this passage it would seem as if the present document had
been intended by Swedenborg as a supplement to his work on "The White
Horse."
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