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Doc. 313.] 921
CHRONOLOGICAL
ACCOUNT.
Transaction VI
.
"
(For contents of this Transaction, see no. 67.)
The volume which we are now discussing embraces Transactions
III and IV of this prospectus.
Afterwards, in 1742 , the author embodied the subjects which
were to be discussed in Transactions III to VI in the general plan
of his Regnum Animale, the original form of which is preserved in
several prospectuses which are printed in Vol. VI of the Photo
lithographed MSS. of Swedenborg, pp. 349 to 353. The same
principle of arrangement prevails in all these prospectuses, though
some contain more details than others. The following serves as a
specimen:
"Volume I.
Anatomy of the body, of all its viscera, the generative organs,
and those of the five senses, 130 to 140 sheets.
Volume II
..
Anatomy of all the parts of the larger and lesser brain, of the
prolonged and the spinal marrow, together with the diseases of the
head, 120 sheets. [This is the title which we have selected for the work
now under consideration.]
Volume III.
Introduction to rational psychology, or three doctrines, by the
aid of which we are led from the material organism of the body to
the knowledge of the soul which is immaterial. These doctrines
are the doctrine of forms, of order, and degrees, and of correspon
dences and representations ; to which is added the doctrine of
modifications. Further, the medullary fibre of the brain, the nervous
fibre of the body, and the muscular fibres, 100 to 120 sheets.
Volume IV.
Rational psychology, or the external and internal sense, imagina
tion, memory, and the affections of the natural mind ; the understand
ing or thought and will, and the affections of the interior mind. Finally,
the soul, its state in the body, its immortality, and its state after
the life of the body ; to which is added a concordance of the various
systems [of the human soul and its intercourse with the body],
120 sheets."
In this plan of the Regnum Animale the work which we are
now considering, was to constitute Volume II.
For further particulars respecting the contents of this volume, see
Document 310, Codex 55.
I
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