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Doc. 302.] ADDITIONS TO UNIVERSAL THEOLOGY. 759
A.
ADDITIONS TO NO. 695 OF "THE TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION."
The subject treated of in the published part of this memor
able relation, is influx. Swedenborg states there, in an assembly
of wise men in the spiritual world, that men at the present
day know nothing of an influx from the spiritual into the
natural world. Afterwards he called the attention of the angels
to some of the wonders that are produced by this influx, and
then continues in the unpublished MS. as follows :
"Afterwards we discussed various other subjects, and I
remarked in connection with hell, that none of all the things
which are in heaven, are seen in hell ; but that opposite things
only appear there, because the affections of the love which
prevails there, which are lusts of evil, are opposed to the
affections of that love in which the angels of heaven are. In
hell, therefore, there appear generally deserts, and in these,
birds of night, dragons, owls, bats, and in addition, wolves, tigers,
leopards, rats, and mice, and all kinds of poisonous serpents
and crocodiles ; and where there is an appearance of grass, it
is found to consist of briars, thorns, thistles, and of some
poisonous plants, which breathe a deadly odour into the air ;
and in another direction there are heaps of stones, and stagnant
pools in which are croaking frogs. All these are likewise
correspondences ; but, as said above, they are correspondences
of the affections of an evil love, and thus lusts. But these
things are not created by God ; nor are they created by Him
in the natural world, where similar things exist ; for all things
created by God are good. On the earth they were created
at the same time that hell was created ; and this exists from
men who, by averting themselves from God, became devils and
satans. As these terrible things, however, wounded the ears,
we turned our thoughts away from them, and directed them
to those things which we had seen in heaven.
See pp. 21 and 22 in the original MS., which is preserved in the
Royal Library in Stockholm.
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