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Doc. 313.] 959
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
nos. 144-146. The Lord’s government of spirits, and of the human
Concerning the Jews, that they
Accidents that happen to man
Concerning intellectual pride ;
race by means of spirits; no. 147.
still expect the Messiah; no. 148.
come from evil spirits ; no. 148 .
no. 148. Evil spirits think that God cannot do anything without them.
A full abstract of the contents of most of these articles is contained
in the "Index" referred to above ; of some, however, the mere titles
of the subject-matter are given. Still, even the mere titles of these
paragraphs are suggestive, and we hope that at some future time
the remains of this first part of the "Spiritual Diary" will be published
in the form recommended above.
1747. (88.) Fragmenta Notarum ad Genesin et Exodum
(Fragments of Notes on Genesis and Exodus), in MS.
These notes refer to the third distinct treatise which Swedenborg
wrote on the book of Genesis. The first, which extends only over
the first three chapters, is entitled : "The History of Creation as
related by Moses," no. 80 ; the second constitutes the large work
called by Dr. Im. Tafel Adversaria, no. 83 ; and the third treatise
is the present, which is written in the margin of his Bible, and of
which only the following parts have been preserved, viz. Genesis i-xvi,
and xlviii-1, and Exodus xxxiv- xl.
In approaching the subject matter of the present work for the
third time the author had the benefit of more than two years’
uninterrupted intercourse with the spiritual world, and, besides, he
had the advantage of the increased knowledge of correspondences
which he had gained by writing the whole of the Adversaria and
especially the "Explanation of Isaiah and Jeremiah" (no. 84).
The intrinsic difference between the treatment of Genesis and
Exodus in the present volume, and that which the author followed
in the Adversaria, is that in the latter work he described the creation
and development of the Lord’s Kingdom outwardly among mankind
at large, and especially among the Jewish people; while in the
present work he takes a more internal view, and studies the develop
ment of the Lord’s Kingdom in individual human minds. He thus
rises from the contemplation of the internal historical or spiritual
natural sense of Scripture, to its interior sense, or to the spiritual
sense proper ; yet without being as yet able to penetrate to the
celestial sense.
The author opens his present explanation of Scripture with the
following introductory remarks : "1. For several years I have now
almost continually conversed with spirits and angels, and they with
me. 2. In this manner I have been instructed respecting the state
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