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Doc. 313.] 949
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
the infinite met the finite, and the first Adam was born. This
concludes one department of the work.
"The remainder of the book is occupied with a description
of the education of the first man, which took place by spiritual
ministrations ; and the second part is devoted to the creation of
Eve, with her education, and marriage to Adam; the whole being
an allegory of a six days’ work. It is noticeable that Adam , born
an infant, is instructed in intellectual matters, and whatever conduces
to wisdom, but Eve, in scientific truths, particularly those of the
human frame, the brain and the living fibres ; somewhat in the
reverse order of the present culture of the sexes. In both sexes,
however, the spirit-lessons are taught by delightful representation
and scene work born of the plastic atmospheres ; and the novitiate
mankind is raised to its feet, and eye after eye opened to the heaven
above them, by sportive similar children fluttering around, and by attrac
tive fruitage pendent over-head from the motherly groves of paradise.”
Respecting this work we read in the "Private Diary for 1744”
(
Document 209, p. 209) under date of October 7, "I was further
informed about my book upon the ’
Worship and Love of God’,
which was said to be a Divine book. I believe it was to contain
also something about spirits." Under the date of October 27 we
read, "It was foretold to me that the twenty-seventh of October
should come again ; when I undertook the "Worship and Love of
God."" From this it appears that the author entered upon the
preparation of the above work towards the close of October, 1744.
In respect to the value Swedenborg himself placed upon this work
in his after-life, see Document 285.
In the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm Swedenborg’s own
copy of this work is preserved, and in it, probably for the purpose
of preparing an index, an abstract of the contents of Part I is
entered upon the margin of the book. This printed copy, together
with the author’s marginal notes, has been photo-lithographed. It
constitutes a portion of Vol. VII of the Photo-lithographed MSS.
For further particulars, see Document 310, Codex 51 .
An English translation of this work appeared in London in 1801 ,
and another in 1828. An American edition was published some
time afterwards.
1745. (79.) De Cultu et Amore Dei, cujus hæc pars tertia
de Vita Conjugii Paris Primogeniti agit (The Worship
and Love of God, Part III. On the married life of the
firstborn pair), 9 pages, 4to, printed in proofsheets, and, in
MS., 19 pages, folio .
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