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Doc. 313.] 971
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
October, 1748. The object of these experiences was to prepare him
to write from the Lord the spiritual explanation of Genesis and
Exodus as contained in the Arcana Coelestia, and also the systematic
description of the spiritual world and its influx into the natural
world, which is appended to the chapters in that work.
For further particulars, see Document 310, Codices 2 and 3.
1747 to 1753. (94.) Arcana Celestia, quæ in Scriptura
Sacra, seu Verbo Domini sunt, detecta: hic quæ in GENESI.
Una cum Mirabilibus, quæ visa sunt in Mundo Spirituum
et Culo Angelorum (The Heavenly Mysteries, which are
in the Sacred Scripture or the Word of the Lord, dis
closed: here those which are in Genesis ; together with
the wonderful things which have been seen in the world
of spirits and in the heaven of angels,) [ London, John
Lewis, ] 5 vols. pp . 2761 , 4to.
1747 to 1758. (95.) Arcana Coelestia, quæ in Scriptura
Sacra, seu Verbo Domini sunt, detecta: hic quæ in ExODO,
una cum mirabilibus, quæ visa sunt in Mundo Spirituum,
et in Colo Angelorum (The Heavenly Mysteries, which
are in the Sacred Scripture or the Word of the Lord,
disclosed : here those which are in Exodus, together with
the wonderful things which have been seen in the world
of spirits and in the heaven of angels,) [London, John
Lewis,] 3 vols., pp. 1796, 4to.
This the largest and most voluminous work which Swedenborg
wrote, he published in two distinct divisions, the first of which
contains an explanation of the internal sense of Genesis, and the
second of Exodus. That these two divisions were entirely distinct,
appears from the circumstance that the author did not style the first
volume of the explanation of Exodus Arcana Cœlestia, Vol. VI, but
denominated it Vol. I of the explanation of Exodus.
The Arcana Coelestia appeared without the name of the author,
and without that of the publisher and the place where pub
lished. Still, it is well known that it was published in London
by John Lewis of Paternoster Row (see Document 258, p. 492
et seq., which contains the prospectus of Vol. II of the work,
issued by John Lewis). Besides, Swedenborg acknowledged himself
to be the author of the work in 1768, (see Document 284, A,
p. 707,) and then he likewise stated that it was published in London
from 1747 to 1758. This statement conflicts with the year of
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