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992 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
Scripture, and 2. The things heard and seen in the spiritual world.
The two great repertories of the teachings of the internal sense
are the Arcana Cœlestia (nos. 94 and 95) and the "Apocalypse
Explained" (no. 106). In both these works also the author digested
into a systematic form the doctrines which lie scattered through the
explanation of the spiritual sense ; in the Arcana Calestia he entitled
this body of doctrine "The Doctrine of Charity and Faith ;" and
this he afterwards published separately under the title "The New
Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine." In the "Apocalypse Explained"
he collected and digested into a systematic form the doctrinal state
ments which are scattered throughout the work, in the doctrinal
treatises extending from nos. 786-1229.
The Author’s storehouse of the things heard and seen in the
spiritual world are his Memorabilia, which are better known as the
"Spiritual Diary." The things recorded in that work up to about
1752, Swedenborg reduced to a systematic form, first in the "memorable
relations" appended to each of the chapters in the Arcana Cœlestia,
and afterwards in the treatise entitled "Heaven and Hell" (no. 101),
and in "The Earths in the Universe" (no. 104). Those which are con
tained in that work from 1752 to 1760 are worked into a systematic -
form, 1. In the treatise on "The Last Judgment," published in 1758
(no. 105) ; 2. In the larger work bearing the same title, which we
are now considering; 3. In the treatise on "The Word, from experience"
(no. 112) ; and 4. In the treatise on "The Spiritual World," which
constitutes no. 113.
That the present work on "The Last Judgment" was prepared
subsequently to that published on the same subject in 1758, is proved
by a reference to the former work on p. 40 of the printed copy
(Diarium Spirituale, Vol. VII, Appendix I, p. 40), but that the Author
wrote it after 1759, is proved by the fact that he quotes in it,
S. D. 5980, which was written on December 13, 1759 (see p. 34).
Besides, it contains a reference to the "Apocalypse Explained"
on p. 52.
Extracts from the present work and also from no. 112 were pub
lished by the Author in 1763 under the title, "Continuation concerning
the Last Judgment and the Spiritual World" (no. 119). Respecting
the contents of this important work, which has not yet been trans
lated into English, and for particulars on the subject of its original
MS., see Document 310, Codex 12, no. 2.
1760. (112) De Mundo Spirituali (The Spiritual World),
in MS., pp. 30. oblong folio.
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