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960 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
of souls after death ; 3. Respecting the divers sorts of spirits who
seduce man ; 4. Respecting hell, and its various and cruel afflictions
and punishments ; 5. Respecting the heavens, and the felicity of the
souls which are there ; 6. Respecting the doctrine of true faith, such
as is acknowledged in the universal heaven ; 7. Respecting the interior,
and the more intimate (intimiori) senses [i. e. the spiritual-natural,
and the spiritual proper,] as well of the Old, as of the New
Testament, which constitute their spirit and their life," (See
"Swedenborg’s annotated Bible,” p. 1.)
The scope of this new treatment of Genesis and Exodus is
plainly stated in the summary explanation of the first chapters of
Genesis, where we read, "Chapter i treats of the creation of human
minds, or of what is usually called the regeneration of men; for
human minds are equal to nothing during infancy, and when they
are born are simply conceived, or in a state of potency" (p. 1. Ibid).
In the succeeding chapters is described man’s progress in regeneration,
and afterwards his successive decline until the time of the flood.
As regards the special time at which these notes were written
in Codex 89, they were evidently prepared by the author imme
diately after he had finished his Index to the Prophet Isaiah, a
portion of the prophet Jeremiah, and to the first fifteen chapters
of Genesis (no. 85), as appears from the following allusions to this
Index: On p. 3, (see photo-lithographed edition of Swedenborg’s
Bible,) in connection with Gen. iii, 5, we read, "Concerning this and
the rainbow, see my vocabulary in the passage from Jeremiah xxxii, 20,
25, under the heading "Day" (de hoc et de iride vidi vocab : meum,
Jer. xxxiii : 20, 25, vide ibi DIES). On p . 8 (Ibid.) we read, "Concern
ing the flood, see in my collection several things concerning Inundation,
which are to be premised" (de diluvio vide in collectaneis plura:
INUNDATIO, præmittantur). Again we read on p. 62 (Ibid.), "con
cerning mourning not for the dead, but for him who goes away, see
Jeremiah xxii, 10, in the article on Death (de planctu non super
mortuo, sed super abeunte, Jer. xxii, 10, vide MORS).
An allusion to the marginal Notes on Jeremiah, no. 85, the
substance of which was introduced into the Index Biblicus, no. 86,
is found on p. 15 (Ibid.), where we read in conection with Genesis xv,
"see Jeremiah xxxiv, at the end, and the annotation on Calf
"
(videatur Jer. xxiv ad finem, et an[notatio] in VITULUS). The
marginal note itself has been lost, but the substance of the note is
contained in the Index Biblicus to Isaiah and Jeremiah, no. 86.
References to the Index Biblicus of Genesis, chapters i-xv,
which is contained in the same MS. volume as the "Biblical Index
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