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1096 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
1744
would look upon what I had finished writing about Organic Forms
generally, and especially the conclusion." In the conclusion of this
dissertation Swedenborg shows how good and truth are appropriated
by man, and evil and falsity rejected.
X. On October 9 (no. 191), while Swedenborg, it seems, was
still engaged in preparing Part III of the Regnum Animale for
the press, he felt very strongly inclined to abandon the whole of
that work; yet he was induced to go on with the printing of it.
On October 27 he finally gave up his work on the Regnum
Animale, and never resumed it. Under that date he writes in
no. 202, "It was foretold to me that the twenty-seventh of October
would come again, when I undertook the ’Worship and Love
of God.’"
The printed copies both of Part III of the "Regnum Animale,”
and of the "Worship and Love of God," bear the imprint of 1745;
yet from the above minute account of the composition of Part III,
it is evident that the whole of it, as far as it is printed, was pre
pared by the Author in the latter part of 1744.
NOTE 165.
SWEDENBORG’S THEOLOGY IN 1743 AND 1744.
Swedenborg’s theological ideas in the beginning were derived
from the church in which he was born and educated ; and even after
these ideas had undergone a considerable change, he still adhered
to the doctrinal phraseology which was current at his time. As
late as 1745 and 1746 we thus find in his work known as the
Adversaria the very same phrases which occur in almost all
theological treatises of his own day, and in many of those of the
present time. The same we shall find to be the case in the Diary
for 1744.
I. The Divine Trinity. We read in the Adversaria, Vol. I,
p. 6, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.—
From the use of the expression ’let us make’ in the plural number,
it appears that all the persons of the Divinity, which were three,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, concurred in the work of creation. "
Again we read in the same Volume, no. 613, p. 413, "When the Only
begotten Son of God had before His eyes the destruction of the
whole human race, and saw most clearly in His own light that this
destruction was imminent, out of pure love, and out of pure mercy
and grace He offered Himself to Jehovah the Father, as a sacrifice
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